“You know what else I saw on my half-hour commute to the Slate offices? At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.”
“You know what else I saw on my half-hour commute to the Slate offices? At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.”
Ironically, the real reason why NYCDOT repeatedly refuses to install physical separation in bike lanes, like curbs and bollards, is for emergency vehicles access. They do not say it publicly but they treat bike lanes as “traffic relief valves”, ostensibly for ambulances, but in practice mostly for police cars to zip up and down. The only bollards they have ever installed was on the Hudson River Greenway, and that was only after a literal terrorist drove a van all the way down it. Every single other “protected” bike lane ever built has been made wide and unobstructed enough to fit a truck through.