Fine for killing someone while driving an SUV: $0.

Five more years of Mayor "Third term's the charm" Bloomberg: Priceless.

I agree with this entirely, except the shoud part.

I think about this every time I ride over the Brooklyn. What we give up to cars is sickening, what is more revolting is that cops can't seem to write tickets for motorists who kill or maim Peds and cyclists, but can cook up some lame excuses to ticket bikers while they access a bike route designated by City published maps. I keep thinking I can't trust them any less. This will be a fun 5 more years of this mixed message from City Hall.

The ticket states I ran a red light. What I did was use the crosswalk when there was a walk signal. I used to use one of the two left turning lanes for car and turn with the green, but the traffic officers told me to use the crosswalk instead. I think it's really the best way to get on the bridge.

Asking cyclists to stop and dismount to get on a bike path is not a solution. The lane is poorly designed and puts pedestrians in harms way. The cyclists shoud have a dedicated lane in the roadway over the bridge and leave the walking path to the peds.

Coming from my side there is no sign to indicate how to transfer from the roadway to the bike path.

Wow. And this interpretation is even more contrived than I said above: I noted this morning that there IS a light for cyclists riding downhill, and it changes in sync with the walk signal. There can be no doubt that the intersection is designed for the same to apply to people riding uphill, for their safety and to improve the blessed flow of automobile traffic. What a shameful, wilful misinterpretation of intent. Now the DOT will have to put in a signal with a bicycle on it for people riding uphill, to eliminate the ambiguity these b.s. artists are exploiting. Or tack up a sign that says "Cyclists cross on WALK signal." Or maybe just "Stop wasting the public's time and money in the name of an anachronistic anti-bicycle jihad, NYPD."

I live a couple of blocks from this intersection. My guess is that one of my angry neighbors who was hit by a bicycle in nineteen aught seven has spurred this "enforcement" action by filing a complaint about cyclists. Well, I have just as much right to complain about unreasonable and dubiously lawful harassment of people riding bicycles in my neighborhood. More of a right, actually, since the PD is actively causing the problem and not some uncatchable random jerk cyclist among the masses of decent ones. (Punishing a loosely defined group for the slights of unknown individuals, like how they expediently define stock thug characters in the movies? Way to be an authoritarian cartoon, guys.) I would be happy to coauthor a letter, as a neighborhood resident, with any of you who have been ticketed. You can contact me at doc@technically.us (for the letter we would dispense with aliases, of course!).

If you're riding along Tillary and see a police car parked on the median just east of Adams, beware.

He actually wrote me up for not having reflectors. I have reflectors. We discussed my reflectors. I pointed to them. He told me my blinky is not an adequate rear reflector.

The whole thing is horse pucky. He honestly told us both that we're supposed to wait for the green light and then cross all that on-coming right-turn traffic. No joke.

I actually got a summons, but the cop (of course) told me he won't show up so if I go to court it will get dropped. To their credit, the cops weren't happy at all about being out there, and apologized to me for ticketing me. Said their CO was making them do it.

Ms. Sadik-Khan: tear down this weird curb!

I found it also. No cyclist would ever see it in that location, unless they were looking up for a sign. You just don't look up and to the right while riding, expecially when the traffic (pedestrians) is on the left.

But what do I know, I'm just one of those asshole cyclists.

This is a problem that is found all over the city on so-called bike paths and routes with dangerous consequences. For example, the bike path south of Chambers Street is currently inaccessible to cyclists so they are forced to ride on the West Side Highway. There was no attempt to accommodate cyclists during construction only to force them to dismount. This is also the case on the Brooklyn Bridge where the easiest solution is to make the bridge inaccessible to bikes.

Sure, it's an inconvenient 10 feet, but not entirely unreasonable.

I wonder. Now that 9/11 has passed and the tourists are dwindling, if the NYPD will continue to enforce these 10 feet?

But all runners are not the same, and I'm going to assume you're one of the good ones. The bridge is a beautiful place for us to enjoy, and (my) rule #1 for being a good cyclist or runner in any shared space is to be willing to stop at any time. It sucks to be thrown off your rhythm, but that is life. Rule number #2 is to look before changing direction, and #3 is to stay within your designated space when possible. Sure, if everyone followed rules #2 and #3 we would not need #1, but there is no training school for walking, running, biking, or photographing the bridge pathway, and there is not, yet, any lane available on the lower bridge for bikes. Basically, we have to get along in spite of the fact that people are imperfect.

You are here to remind bikers that they are vehicles under the law?—actually, my bike is the vehicle, when it's on a road governed by traffic laws, but I'm still a human being. Being recognized as such is part of respect going both ways—let's do share the path.

And back to the topic here, last night I decided to take B.B. home and walk my bike at Tillary where the blessed sign says to. And I realized something: you may as well walk at that point because, if continuing down Brooklyn Bridge Boulevard's (deadly) bike lane, you're going to have to wait another half minute for the light anyway. So, from now on, unless I arrive with a ticking "walk" and a clear path across (which is rare, because the bridge autos get 90% of that cycle), I'll step off my bike instead of straddling it and stroll when the walk comes up instead of coasting. I maintain that it makes zero difference to anyone's safety (and isn't really any of their business), but if it makes signage fans happy I'll do my best to comply.

Anyone else willing to compromise from either end?