Smith Street Bike Lanes Marked
Not long after construction began on the Prospect Park West bike lane (recent photo on the jump), the markings have gone down Smith Street, continuing the existing bike lane from Bergen all the way down to 9th Street. This is part of the Hoyt street extension from Bergen to 3rd, which has already been completely…
Not long after construction began on the Prospect Park West bike lane (recent photo on the jump), the markings have gone down Smith Street, continuing the existing bike lane from Bergen all the way down to 9th Street. This is part of the Hoyt street extension from Bergen to 3rd, which has already been completely painted.
Behold the Prospect West Bike Lane! [Brownstoner]
New Bike Lanes on Smith and Hoyt [Brownstoner]
Smith and Hoyt Street Bicycle Lane Extensions [NYC DOT]
Minard, I didn’t SAY Brooklyn was like Copenhagen; I said the Danes are very nice, English-speaking people. I agree about LA – Buenos Aires reminds me of Brooklyn and Manhattan far more than Copenhagen.
Ty, my Danish friend speaks 7 European languages plus Japanese and American English much better than most Americans. He once said, “When you live in a country the size of Rhode Island, you have to speak your neighbors’ languages.”
Umm… Minard… Brooklyn is subsidized ‘up the wazoo’ as well.
I cannot think of any city in Europe more unlike Brooklyn than Copenhagen. There are probably more people in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights than in all of Copenhagen, which is a national capital, uncrowded, subsidized up the wazoo by a Social Democrat government and which resembles Disney World more than any part of Brooklyn, especially Fourth Avenue.
We have much more in common with big unruly cities in Latin America and India than we do with Scandinavia, sorry to disappoint.
Yeah — the Scandinavians and Dutch speak English as a first language, basically. It’s because they know no one speaks their languages… sorta sad, but very convenient. The average adult in these countries also has command of at least one other language, if not 2 or 3 more.
The French don’t speak English because they are language purists… an unpleasant lot. They don’t like us speaking French because we screw it up and they refuse to speak English for the same reason. It’s a Catch 22, of course. If you can’t speak French with a Frenchman, your French won’t improve. And if the French don’t speak English with English or Americans… then they’re English remains ridiculous.
I would think that they didn’t put the bike lane btw the parked cars and the sidewalk because although Smith is pretty wide it’s not wide enough to accommodate flowing traffic and what would be the constantly opening doors of people entering/leaving their parked cars.
Not to mention the inevitable stoppage of traffic that would occur every time a car parked or pulled out of a slot.
In this case it’s better for the city as a whole to keep traffic moving on Smith at the expense of biker convenience and safety, rather than drag Smith traffic down to a virtual standstill.
Smith’s ok until about Bergen when it becomes a clusterf*ck during prime hours.
And, *rob*, they all speak English in Copenhagen. And, unlike the French (at least in Paris) who won’t speak English to you on principal, the Danes actually enjoy speaking to visitors. (One of my best friends is Danish; he now lives on Fourth Place, but I’ve spent a lot of time with his family in Copenhagen.)
Usually I am able to follow your line of thinking, *rob*, at least in part. But this time, I’m blowing a big what the f*ck? your way.
And why aren’t the bike lanes put between the sidewalks and the parked cars? It really is the only way to ensure the safety of the bikers and that the bike lanes aren’t simply misused as a giant excuse to barrel past cars and to double park. I don’t get it.
My sister didn’t care for Iraq very much… but she made the most of it. She went fishing on the river in Baghdad with a couple locals. She said things like that made the 24/7 war zone thing slightly tolerable.
JSK go away!