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3. Bike-Lane Emergency
1 year ago
Bike lane enforcement is a real problem in NYC. Lack of proper enforcement creates an environment where cyclists are forced to weave in and out of traffic in order to avoid vehicles who don't fear being ticketed for parking in a bike lane.
More needs to be done to help deter drivers from taking advantage of the little space that cyclists do have marked off for them.
Better, more separated bike lanes (such as the ones that have been so successful in other cities) must be implemented city wide in order to accommodate a riding public that is steadily increasing.
Contact the NYC DOT and voice your opinion, and check out advocacy sites such as transalt.org and livablestreets.org for more information.
Ride Safe.
More needs to be done to help deter drivers from taking advantage of the little space that cyclists do have marked off for them.
Better, more separated bike lanes (such as the ones that have been so successful in other cities) must be implemented city wide in order to accommodate a riding public that is steadily increasing.
Contact the NYC DOT and voice your opinion, and check out advocacy sites such as transalt.org and livablestreets.org for more information.
Ride Safe.
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funny with all those police cars
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thanks for the pic. Police should be leading by example, not being part of the larger problem. There's several dozen places all over the city where you'll see that exact same scene. Worse in some places.
There was a large sand filled truck in the bike lane, but this is nothing new, just one of the obstacles a cyclist must overcome on a daily basis. So I look over my shoulder and change lanes in order to go around the truck and someone driving in a car behind me honks at me. This is yet another everyday occurrence, so I wave my hand in the air to let them know that I know they are there (and to just say hi).
The funny part is something that has never happened to me before. The driver pulls ahead of me and into the bike lane, steps on his brakes for a minute, so that I must slow down, and then speeds off again.
Clearly he wanted to give me a taste of my own medicine.
So, I wave again to him in his rear view mirror and ask him to slow down so he can tell me how he really feels. Of course he stops at the next red light and I catch up to him and as I approach his vehicle he rolls up his driver's side window (in order to escape any confrontation). Ironically enough he fails to roll up the back seat window so I am able to give him a friendly reminder that I have just as much right to the road as he does. I was polite and called him sir. It was very funny.