Williamsburg, NY – Brooklyn Community Board 1, which represents Williamsburg and Greenpoint, is set to hear proposals for new buffered bike lanes on Kent Avenue and for improving pedestrian safety at dangerous intersections in North Brooklyn.
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The bike lanes are an interim step on the way to completing the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. CB1 already approved the permanent, physically separated bike path, and the shift of on-street parking spaces that it entails, back in April. Nevertheless, approval of the buffered lanes is hardly a sure thing.
The pedestrian safety measures involve removing parking spaces near dangerous intersections. “Daylighting” these locations by removing cars will make pedestrians more visible to turning drivers.
The issue has become a hot issue in the community, come and raise your voice if you have an opinion on this.
When
Monday, September 8, 6:30 pm (you MUST sign up by 6:10 pm if you want to speak!)
Where
Swinging 60’s Senior Citizens Center
211 Ainslie St. (at Manhattan Av.) Brooklyn
I think there should be more bike lanes.
you think
why you must live in BP
I just got back from, I didn’t believe what they did to all avenues in willi, from being wide 2-3 lanes, they all became narrow, as u have to push yourself true. & lets not talk about who & how they’re riding on the bike lane.
It’s A SHAME THAT THE COMMUNITY SITS QUIET ACBOUT IT!
It will be very beneficial for the community if there were more bike lanes in bp.
i wish it would be normal for chasidishe yingeleit to drive bikes, and get rid of the cars
let’s start a campaign for more bike lanes in bork park.
its so funny how they cut roads in half and you see cars for miles in traffic and no bikes in sight
about time we start a “williamsburg bike club” it would be the best thing we ever did for our community…
Bikes Rule!! get off your duff
Too many bike riders are obnoxious.
However Willamsburg and Boro Park have horrid obesity rates – so bike lanes should be welcome.
However most of the bike lanes in existence are under utilized and take up too much space – shrink the lanes.
I just got back from, I didn’t believe what they did to all avenues in willi, from being wide 2-3 lanes, they all became narrow, as u have to push yourself true. & lets not talk about who & how they’re riding on the bike lane.
It’s A SHAME THAT THE COMMUNITY SITS QUIET ACBOUT IT!
09-08-2008 – 3:43 PM
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WWWHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT????
we should be ashamed??? what can we do with such leaders???
thats why we need change!!!
lets show for the old Williamsburga leaders that they cant do whatever they want!!!
Those leaders are not boss around here, they can only try their best, the bosses are the elected officials, don’t pour your anger on those mesiras nefesh’diga askonim.
Williamsburgar, you should be ASHAMED OF THE WAY YOU’RE TALKING!
for dirty politics you’re ready to swallow alive all community leaders, regardless for what they did the past 30 years for EVERYBODY AND ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY in need of it, REGARDLESS THEIR RACE OR CHASSIDUS.
SHAME ON ALL DESTROYERS AND BAD MOUTHED MORONS!!!
hey!
i hope that were you live the is no “dirty politics” …….
it would be nice if all 300 pounder’s will ride a bike in willie. their would be more space /place in shul for yomtov and shabbos. ride a bike and lose wt.
Willamsburg and Boro Park have horrid obesity rates – so bike lanes should be welcome. :::::::::::::::::::::::::;
Mr. Smarty should only know that it is not the bike lane that makes you lose weight but it’s the person who gets on a bicylce and USES it on a bike lane that helps manage the weight issue.
hey all you smartalecs lets see you ride when the temp drops
If Bloomberg had his way, NYC would be a bike city, with cars allowed for an hour a day on minor streets.
YES! Nothing wrong for a yiingerman to ride a bike on the “holy” streets of williamsburg. I always asked that question : Why cant we just ride bikes? Its exercise and SAVE GAS! But you know the williamsburg mantallity……. We shall not get into it…..
But on the other hand, it’s absolutly ridiculous how much traffic has accoured since those bike lanes. Soon those narrow streets like Skillman, Franklin, Taaffe will become a stricly bike lanes……. Hey You Never Know!
The City should invest there $$$$$$$$$$$ in different things…
What happens when u get 10 points on ur drivers licsence?
A free Bike…………..
I was always for bikes for yingerleit in Boro Park and Williamsburg as they do in Antwerp. But because of a new situation, where the hipsters/artists/counterculture/ have taken over Williamsburg, riding side by side with these de-moralized divers isn’t feasible anymore. A shame on its leaders who are guilty in allowing it.
“Eichah hoisu lezoinu”. As a result of the Rabbonim in Williamsburg being busy in the machlokeh in Satmar, and also as a result of the leaders in the community trying to impose their will of the Williamsburger eiriv on everyone, by intimidation and every means available to them, we are now are eating its fruit, which is the calamity called “hipsters/artist”.
Boro Park, freits enk nisht, you might be next.
Those going to this hearing, let me inform you. The city has a plan and I think it was already approved, that Bedford Avenue from Metropolitan Ave until McCarren Park will become a pedestrian mall. In other words the 50,000 hipsters living in and around Williamsburg will be using these bike lanes to arrive to a major nightlife in McCarren Park. For those who have no idea what’s wrong with having hipsters in your neighborhood let me tell you. Williamsburg is home to a major hipster house on 79 Lorimer Street. On every holiday (Jan 1, Fourth of July etc.) hundreds of hipsters arrive there to dance and party all night. They don’t believe in buying window shades so every house that can view that building, its ehrlicha occupants have no choice but to put heavy draperies to shield his family from the depravity that goes on there. When they leave the building, some drunk, they have a habit of writing graffiti on the walls of houses or cars. This is just one of many that plague Williamsburg. I’m really thinking of leaving that place, as an “ir v’em biYisroel – bimloi miven hamileh” has become a shuk shel zoiness.
The artisan community,consists of well behaved,
and courteous people.
we should respect their rights,as well,live and
let live.
Williamsburg is not a ghetto,and it should accommodate a variety of citizens.
It depends what means well behaved. In the legal definition maybe, if graffiti spraying counts as well behaved! but as far as behaving morally, they don’t lead family lives, they lead a morally depraved life. Sure they have rights, but that doesn’t mean that we need to help them ruin our community. The danger of them is “berochnius” not “begashmius”, and that is much more difficult to fight, because iron gates on the windows won’t do.
No one, went of the Derech,because of the Artisan
community.
The chinnuch,has to be such,that you are exposed,and don’t immitate,because yours is superior,and you make the right choice.
Building up Walls around yourself,does not function in today’s open environment.
Living in a closed-in make believe community,
produces,an even bigger numbers,of Doros,that leave the fold.
You can take a look what goes on in KJ,and Willi,
their numbers are worse,then other heimish communities.
How do you know that nobody went off the derech because of the hipster community? “Asher korcho baderech” doesn’t mean that Amolek made Klal Yisroel go off the derech (that mo’ab did), it means that they cooled them off to be callous.