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The Cypress Hills St bike lane is the worst. It creates gridlock coming off the Jackie for the sake of the one guy that bikes on it daily. There used to never be traffic like that there. It is so bad that you actually have cars driving in the bike lane, which is protected.
Does anyone know if a proposed bike lane has ever been overturned in NYC (in the last 10-12 years?). Seems like the DOT just installs these traffic calming measures unabated. Does a CB ever vote no? This needs to end now, traffic is worse than ever.
I live in Cypress Hills. These bike lanes are desperately needed. It would be great if we could ride down to Eastern Parkway, but even on the side roads, kids (and sometimes not kids) drive like maniacs, and will plow you off the road and keep going.
I live in Cypress Hills. These bike lanes are desperately needed. It would be great if we could ride down to Eastern Parkway, but even on the side roads, kids (and sometimes not kids) drive like maniacs, and will plow you off the road and keep going.
Yes, they're ALL needed. All of the bikers must be ghosts because on some streets, I have yet to see one. Meanwhile streets are narrowed to one lane in each direction creating unnecessary congestion.
Yes, they're ALL needed. All of the bikers must be ghosts because on some streets, I have yet to see one. Meanwhile streets are narrowed to one lane in each direction creating unnecessary congestion.
I guess nobody rode in the street before the 1990s
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I guess nobody rode in the street before the 1990s
I sure as hell did and I'm still here to tell it. There are indeed places where they are needed and they should be in place. However, we need a balance, and we need to know that people will use them rather than just putting them in because people want a bike lane when they feel like riding. Meanwhile for the other 360 days out of the year that a handful of people that use the bike lanes don't use them, neighborhoods endure endless congestion and toxic fumes from cars unnecessarily. De Blasio and his DOT commissioner Polly Trottenberg are just trying to create congestion in some cases to deter people from driving, so let's put in some useless bike lanes, narrow the driving lanes further and frustrate drivers in the name of safety for bikers.
I'm the first one to say that we DO have inconsiderate, reckless drivers that don't give a damn about pedestrians or bikers, but this is overkill. Just like drivers need to be responsible, so do bikers. Bikers never talk about people who do stupid things like riding their bikes on the sidewalks and almost running pedestrians over. On the Upper West Side, there's a bike lane on Amsterdam and it's well used by all of the delivery guys making their drop offs, BUT then you have people who refuse to use the bike lane and either ride on the sidewalk or ride in traffic, creating unnecessary dangerous situations.
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