Comments on: Eyes on the Street: Bike Boxes on (Brooklyn’s) Broadway http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:40:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: uSkyscraper http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50617 uSkyscraper Wed, 21 May 2008 18:40:02 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50617 I agree with buford. Bike around the city enough and you'll quickly learn that this kind of alignment is all but useless. DoT should have moved the parked cars over and put the bike lane between the cars and the curb. I agree with buford. Bike around the city enough and you'll quickly learn that this kind of alignment is all but useless. DoT should have moved the parked cars over and put the bike lane between the cars and the curb.

]]> By: buford puser http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50552 buford puser Wed, 21 May 2008 02:03:28 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50552 Wow, full credit to DoT for rolling out the new parking areas city-wide- now there's a full lane to double park without blocking the traffic in Brooklyn too! Amazing your photographer got those shots of the lanes with no one parking in them yet; just be patient, they'll be lined with cars & unloading trucks soon! God bless Mike Bloomberg for the biggest expansion of free on-street parking in many years, although I still say it's confusing to mark these new parking areas with those pictures of bicycles. Wow, full credit to DoT for rolling out the new parking areas city-wide- now there's a full lane to double park without blocking the traffic in Brooklyn too!
Amazing your photographer got those shots of the lanes with no one parking in them yet; just be patient, they'll be lined with cars & unloading trucks soon!
God bless Mike Bloomberg for the biggest expansion of free on-street parking in many years, although I still say it's confusing to mark these new parking areas with those pictures of bicycles.

]]> By: Stu http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50529 Stu Tue, 20 May 2008 21:24:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50529 Things on DeKalb would be nice. That's a decent street for most of the way, but the lack of lanes means that people edge you out and generally do dickish things. I take it every day to work when I bike, and it's still the only street that I've lost my cool and flipped out and started screaming at someone in a car for being a dick. It was not cool, for anyone. Things on DeKalb would be nice. That's a decent street for most of the way, but the lack of lanes means that people edge you out and generally do dickish things. I take it every day to work when I bike, and it's still the only street that I've lost my cool and flipped out and started screaming at someone in a car for being a dick. It was not cool, for anyone.

]]> By: BicyclesOnly http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50525 BicyclesOnly Tue, 20 May 2008 20:24:23 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50525 I was browsing through the DoT decks at Angus's link above an saw, to my amazement, that the <a>West 106th Street Safety and Bicycle Lane Project</a> to be installed in two months converts a pedestrain pathway in Central Park to shared bike-ped use. (See page 14 of the pdf) What a precedent! I was browsing through the DoT decks at Angus's link above an saw, to my amazement, that the West 106th Street Safety and Bicycle Lane Project to be installed in two months converts a pedestrain pathway in Central Park to shared bike-ped use. (See page 14 of the pdf) What a precedent!

]]> By: Angus Grieve-Smith http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50514 Angus Grieve-Smith Tue, 20 May 2008 18:37:57 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50514 Beat you to it, Rhein ;-). Here's the list of bike routes scheduled to be installed this year: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/installsched.shtml Beat you to it, Rhein ;-) . Here's the list of bike routes scheduled to be installed this year:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/installsched.shtml

]]> By: Rhein http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50510 Rhein Tue, 20 May 2008 18:27:51 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50510 Re DeKalb: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dekalbave_cbpresentation.pdf Re DeKalb:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dekalbave_cbpresentation.pdf

]]> By: Angus Grieve-Smith http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50509 Angus Grieve-Smith Tue, 20 May 2008 18:25:32 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50509 MAA, check out this PDF: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dekalbave_cbpresentation.pdf MAA, check out this PDF:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dekalbave_cbpresentation.pdf

]]> By: MAA http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50503 MAA Tue, 20 May 2008 17:55:23 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50503 Has anyone else noticed spray-painted lines on DeKalb through Bed-Sty that might indicate new stripping there as well? I saw it while riding last week, but haven't been by there in a few days. Anyone have any information? Has anyone else noticed spray-painted lines on DeKalb through Bed-Sty that might indicate new stripping there as well? I saw it while riding last week, but haven't been by there in a few days. Anyone have any information?

]]> By: md http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50501 md Tue, 20 May 2008 17:19:55 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50501 FYI, the Vanderbilt Ave median is under construction in Prospect Heights. FYI, the Vanderbilt Ave median is under construction in Prospect Heights.

]]> By: Shemp http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50494 Shemp Tue, 20 May 2008 17:07:40 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50494 My experience around North Brooklyn is that these marking projects do keep cars in line - painted lanes fail where cars back up and try to get around each in frustration like in Manhattan/downtown Brooklyn or get chronically parked on like Adams Street. This Broadway project is great because it intersects bike lanes on the avenues (Wyeth and Kent pending, according to the buzz) and is near the bridge entrances, and brings some order to a formerly massive amount of open pavement. My experience around North Brooklyn is that these marking projects do keep cars in line - painted lanes fail where cars back up and try to get around each in frustration like in Manhattan/downtown Brooklyn or get chronically parked on like Adams Street.

This Broadway project is great because it intersects bike lanes on the avenues (Wyeth and Kent pending, according to the buzz) and is near the bridge entrances, and brings some order to a formerly massive amount of open pavement.

]]> By: gecko http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/comment-page-1/#comment-50492 gecko Tue, 20 May 2008 16:27:24 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/20/eyes-on-the-street-bike-boxes-on-brooklyns-broadway/#comment-50492 Regarding Brooklyn's Broadway nifty new "bike lanes, bike boxes, and pedestrian refuges with space for plantings," just wonder if there is some plan to get drivers to conform perhaps repeating successes of others like the "scoop-the-poop" campaign? Regarding Brooklyn's Broadway nifty new "bike lanes, bike boxes, and pedestrian refuges with space for plantings," just wonder if there is some plan to get drivers to conform perhaps repeating successes of others like the "scoop-the-poop" campaign?

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