I was heading to Long Island City and was grumbling in anticipation about the very brief wrong way under the bridge to get under the 7 tracks on 23rd Street. That short block was two-way till about a year or so ago. Well I’ll be damned if they haven’t put in a little painted bike…
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Somehow without my knowledge a separated bike lane magically appeared on 1st Ave. How is that for fabulous? Two nights ago, I biked in peace all the way from Chinatown to 56th Street. The 2nd Ave bike lane goes all the way up to 49th St. And even is far North as 56 St is…
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Yes, it’s Casimir Pulaski Day! Think of Pulaski when you’re biking to Greenpoint. And think, too, why the bridge named in his honor, on a four-lane road, has six lanes for car traffic (more than 70 feet) while it squeezes bikes and pedestrians into less than one lane (seven feet).
As reported in the Guardian. I particularly like the sneaker-and-sun-glass wearing white-jacket-on-black-t-shirt gold-chain fashion sense of the rich-asshole guy who got his car crushed (yes, I know it was all staged). He looks awfully like the guys I see hanging around cafes here in Astoria.
About the Netherlands. From the NYT: But while many Americans see their cars as an extension of their individual freedom, to some of us owning a car is a burden, and in a city a double burden. I find the recrafting of the city in order to lessen — or eliminate — the need for…
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If you want biking sympathy from non-bike riders, throw this fact at them: you can’t bike across Central Park. It always works. Most people are somewhat shocked. This state of affairs may be starting to change, according to the Times. I’d still like a way to bike through the park on the south side, since…
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Bike lane added to Second Ave. Subway: Dana Muskowitz, spokesman for the Gotham Motorists Association, expressed bewilderment at the plan, stating “our city’s relentless promotion of a trivial hobby at the expense of drivers’ urgent needs has reached unacceptable heights. Seriously, is the Mayor in the pocket of the front-mounted basket industry?” Wolfson acknowledged that…
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This would be way cool… if not exactly entirely necessary. The Randall’s Island Connector, part of the South Bronx Greenway, would run underneath an Amtrak trestle and create a new link to bike or walk between the South Bronx and Manhattan.
New Yorkers For Urban Cars, United! “Moses was Right!” NY FUC-U knows that New York’s car-hating bike-loving liberals are destroying our freedom and way of life. This war on real New Yorkers must stop. Yesterday they closed Broadway; today they want bike lanes; tomorrow they want your car! And the worst part is they won’t…
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A friend of mine writes: What do you make of the city council bike lane hearings with DOT? I find it deeply disheartening that facts hold no sway. Some bonhead council member can say to Janette: you never consulted the community, and she’ll patiently give the dates of all the times she did consult the…
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