What the heck are you talking about? Sure, parking in bike lanes is a way of life, I go around double-parkers and get miffed a bit, but this vehicle is blocking THE ENTIRE BIKE PATH, one that was put there for safety!!! Cyclists are not supposed to be on the roadway there.

This is hardly something to say “Get over it” to. Sure a cop parked in a painted bike lane happens tons of times per day…whatever. But this is just plain rude.

To extend your analogy – While herding cars is like herding cattle, herding cops is like herding cats. They do whatever the think they can get away with.

Allen is coming along, though a lot of the left turn signalization isn’t done yet, and it has really lousy connections north of Houston St.

I agree the Allen Street bike lane is worth using. Check it out, people, good stuff.

Herding cars is like herding cattle, you need barriers to entry.

Also: Strongly recommend you hang a right on Canal off the bridge, and use Allen, which is swank and needs users.

We also shouldn’t have to take that narrow turn downhill and then cross Canal and go up the hill. There should have been a direct bike crossing across Canal without having to go down and back up. (Something similar is needed at the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge as well.)

Bollards. On streets. God I love DOT.

Civliian Jeep runs a westbound red on Tillary as I made my westbound turn off Sands into the middle lane at speed (where the rightmost two lanes go over the Brooklyn Bridge). Dude honks and tailgates me, so I pull up to him at the light and ask what’s his problem.

Dude pulls a badge on a necklace out from behind his sweatshirt and says he thinks I know better than to ask a cop what he’s doing in traffic. I laugh (somehow I am deeply amused) and say no sir you should know better than to run reds and threaten civilians with your badge.

He tells me to get out of the middle of the road with my bike, I say you’re a goddamn cop, how you not know that this is precisely by law where in the road I’m supposed to be; he says, yeah, go see your pretty little boyfriend, faggot.

I’m so beyond being surprised by this stuff. It’s not /some/ cops it’s /most/ cops; for every civil one there’s three d-bags.

I was once cut off by a NYPD van who was driving through a red light. When he was stuck behind traffic at the next light I caught up to him, and asked through his open window, “If the police don’t respect the law, who will?” He nodded and said, “you’re right…”