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But the city spent over 100 million on the Queens Boulevard bike lanes. They just have to be safe, right?
The whole Vision Zero is virtual signaling that they want to implement new taxes, it has not resulted in less pedestrian deaths. You can peg the traffic down to 5mph and people still blindly walk in front of cars and get killed.
There are too many morons that walk in front of cars and thinking they are visible to cars at night and the whole bike lane is most likely suicide for people who have over age of 40. If you wanna bike on Queens blvd, go right ahead. I don't see how it is cost effective over subway.
But the city spent over 100 million on the Queens Boulevard bike lanes. They just have to be safe, right?
Yea, they're pretty good at least up until Rego Park as that's where I usually end up when biking there rather than to Forest Hills. I don't think there's going to be a sea change in how they're designed just the next neighborhood over and I think the improvements they've done of late haven't been neighborhood-specific, but iterations based on the data and design. It's been a pretty great ride though over the past year when I've biked over and a massive improvement from years past.
Even with that, I do not think this is something that somehow who is probably new to urban biking should commit to for a commute to Midtown. I say that because it's quite long as a bike or scooter ride even if electric, while the subway ride and LIRR are both quite fast.
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The e-scooter as in a moped style kind of scooter is almost certainly a no. The kind that look more like kick scooters are generally fine especially as most models have the handles folding up.
But the city spent over 100 million on the Queens Boulevard bike lanes. They just have to be safe, right?
Did they really spend that much? When I've driving along Queens Blvd, I don't see that many people biking.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
Yea, they're pretty good at least up until Rego Park as that's where I usually end up when biking there rather than to Forest Hills. I don't think there's going to be a sea change in how they're designed just the next neighborhood over and I think the improvements they've done of late haven't been neighborhood-specific, but iterations based on the data and design. It's been a pretty great ride though over the past year when I've biked over and a massive improvement from years past.
Even with that, I do not think this is something that somehow who is probably new to urban biking should commit to for a commute to Midtown. I say that because it's quite long as a bike or scooter ride even if electric, while the subway ride and LIRR are both quite fast.
You must be one of the very few bikers that actually bike along Queens Blvd. Worst off, the trucks trying to make deliveries have to block those bike lanes to do so. A little confused at how it's so smooth for you biking.
Op should just ride his scooter moped in the bike lane or sidewalk of Manhattan just like all the other delivery drivers. Swerving in and out of traffic, backwards, forwards, sideways, NYPD doesn't care.
Did they really spend that much? When I've driving along Queens Blvd, I don't see that many people biking.
You must be one of the very few bikers that actually bike along Queens Blvd. Worst off, the trucks trying to make deliveries have to block those bike lanes to do so. A little confused at how it's so smooth for you biking.
I've almost only have biked there during weekends--I'm actually not sure if I've ever biked there on a weekday. Perhaps that's the difference? Good point on the trucks. I'm pretty sure the reason the barriers were put up this year had to do with vehicles blocking the bike lanes and they seem mostly effective.
Regardless, I think biking that distance every day each way is going to get old real quick even if it's an e-bike.
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A little confused at how it's so smooth for you biking. 
