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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-31 15:53:39

#FuckEricAdams so so much. And fuck Hochul for not removing him. #BikeNYC
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After two last-minute appeals from safe street advocates, a state appellate court panel ruled on Monday afternoon that Mayor Eric Adams could rip out a three-block stretch of protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue from Willoughby Avenue to Flushing Avenue. Adams's Department of Transportation, which installed the bike lane barely nine months ago, began the demolition late Wednesday night. "It's really sad to see [the removal of] a safety project that has been fought for by a whole host of com…
Crash data from the DOT showed that the entire protected lane on Bedford, which separated bicyclists from traffic with a barrier of parked cars and stone blocks, reduced overall injuries by 47 percent. But Mayor Adams's decision to kill the lane was ultimately about politics, not safety. This past spring, members of the local Orthodox Jewish community, many of whom opposed the bike lane's installation in the first place, became incensed after several close calls between e-bike riders and chi…
One Orthodox man, who declined to give his name, told Hell Gate that he supported Adams's decision to remove the bike lane, which he thought was "poorly planned," but believed that Adams intervened mostly because of the general election in November. "I don't think he would have stepped in if there wasn't an election," he said, adding that he liked Adams before the mayor decided to remove the bike lane. "He has a very hard job because it's New York City, but he's doing a decent job." The m…
The actual removal of the bike lane was extremely loud and agonizingly slow. A massive truck obliterated less than a third of the bright green line on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle Avenues in about an hour of work, as a worker watched to make sure no debris got caught in the machine. Two bicyclists whisked by after 11 p.m. realizing—mid-ride—that the bike lane was being shorn off. One of them turned to their friend, perplexed: "Wait, are they getting rid of this?"
@atthenius@fediscience.org
2025-07-28 18:01:12

For East Harlem, there are two alignment scenarios
1) Seaward
2) Landward
For waterfront greenway interested folks #bikeNYC #NYC , the seaward seems like an option w space for a bike road between the highway and East/Harlem Rivers. Plus there is a bigger area of reduced flood risk w seaward.
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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-06-18 16:36:16

Somehow we made this part of the Queensboro Bridge worse. This is a 3-4ft wide two-way bike lane. There's so much wrong with this, from the metal manhole cover taking up almost the entire width of the bike lane, to the MUTCD-violating usage of sharrows, to those shitty rumble strip/speed bump things THAT ARE LOOSE.
Wtaf! #bikeNYC
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Sidewalk next to a roadway. On the left, a subway entrance. On the right, the roadway with large columns next to it (holding up an elevated subway). In the middle, the sidewalk is divided with delineator posts. The left side of the sidewalk is for marked for pedestrians, and the right side is marked for bikes (via sharrows, which is.. not what they fucking mean, NYC DOT assholes! Sharrows literally mean a shared lane BETWEEN CARS AND BIKES. The 2009 MUTCD states, "Shared Lane Markings shall not…
Further down the same sidewalk, viewed from the bike area. The left side no has a "sidewalk closed use pedestrian walkway" sign and some green walls, then the ped walkway, then the bike area, and then columns and then the roadway (with cars moving in it). The bikeway continues to narrow to 3-4ft wide, and there's a bike parked next to a column that further narrows the bikeway. Someone is biking just past it, to give you an idea of a 2.5ft wide cyclist just barely fitting (forget a cargo bike or…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-11 19:30:59

These #NYCParks-provided bikewashing stations, so convenient and useful on hot days! #BikeNYC

A NYC playground in full sun (there are kids there , but out of frame in the shade). There are 4 metal rings 7 ft tall spraying water for kids to run through. But the way they're aligned, it almost looks like a tiny car wash.