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@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.
@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…