Comments on: Happy Labor Day Weekend

By: John Revolta

John Revolta — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:42:18 +0000

This video is dishonest.

Note that when the red lights are ignored and the law broken, the scene is deleted.

Have you no shame? Do you think people don’t know?

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:24:11 +0000

I use the Grand Street bike lane to access the Manhattan Bridge, or the Allen Street and Pike Street bike lanes when I do a food run to Pathmark.

This weekend the smell of rotting fish was nearly enough to knock me off my bike! How can merchants and local residents allow this to continue and yet complain about anything else? They should be glad to have a bike lane so that when their customers faint from the stench they don’t fall into moving traffic!!

By: BicyclesOnly

BicyclesOnly — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:20:38 +0000

Despite abuse and apparent lack of use of this bike lane, it is a critical piece of the network and I used it several times in august for trips to Brooklyn with my kids. After experiencing a few minor or almost-collisions and a lot of nasty commentary, I have concluded that it is just too unpleasant to take my kids on the Brooklyn Bridge because of the pedestrian tourists and the aggressive and impatient adult bicyclists. This Grand Street lane allows us to use the Williamsburg Bridge instead. The one serious problem with this lane is access from the West Side bike path. Varick is just too heavily trafficked and dangerous for most bicyclists who would be seeking to access the separated path on Grand.

By: Kaja

Kaja — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:30:45 +0000

Grand Street smells mildly of rotting fish 90% of the time, and overpoweringly of rotting fish 10% of the time. But I call it character, I guess since I’m mostly only passing through.

By: Marty Barfowitz

Marty Barfowitz — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:09:24 +0000

Ahh… Grand Street. Intense stink of rotting fish at 1:32.

By: BikingViking

BikingViking — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:26:59 +0000

Ahh… NYC Bike Lanes

Jogger at :28

Salmon at 1:17, 1:43

Shoppers/Pedestrians at 1:30, 1:37, 1:44, 1:52

To be fair; the sidewalk is quite small, most people yielded or got out of the way with no hassle and at least he didn’t have to worry about being hit by a door.

BTW How long do you think that green paint is going to last?