New York, NY – New York City has built 200 miles of bike lanes in the last three years.
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But a new study by two Hunter College professors finds that those bike lanes are often blocked by cars or trucks.
The study released today found that a cyclist traveling in a bike lane will encounter a vehicle during a stretch of just five to six city blocks more than 60 percent of the time.
The researchers surveyed 492 randomly selected Manhattan blocks that have bike lanes between Sept. 22 and Oct. 23.
The study said the city needs to try harder to restrict bike lanes to bikes.
the bike lanes are no more than a big sakanah for everybody, and another cash cow for the city. it is at best a grey area, if a car is allowed to cross a bike lane to pickup or discharge a passenger, or park. and there is no enforcement of bike riders who callously jeopardize the public. the answer? i don’t know
Fortunately, the City already realizes that illegal parking has made many of these bike lanes useless and dangerous. The good news is that the City recently announced that as part of reconfiguraiton of some lane (such as the Bedford/Kent reallignment reported yesterday in VIN) they would be creating a special enforcement team to immediately begin ticketing illegally parked and standing cars in bike lanes. I believe it will be a $250 ticket so hopefully the situation will improve quickly.
Commercial vehicles are allowed to double park for 30 minutes to deliver or pick up goods,however they may not block a bike lane for a minute! That means that they have to block the whole traffic lane in order to do their business in all commercial areas that have bike lanes
Commercial vehicles are allowed to double park for 30 minutes to deliver or pick up goods,however they may not block a bike lane for a minute! That means that they have to block the whole traffic lane in order to do their business in all commercial areas that have bike lanes
u cant even let off an elderly person in the bike lane without getting a ticket.
When you “restrict” car lanes to cars only, bus lanes to buses, and pedestrian areas to pedestrians… Welcome to NYC 2009. Bikers seem to have more rights than anyone else around here!
do u want a biker to have to avoid a narrow collison with a car who takes up the lane by having to ride in the street where cars fly down at triple the amount of speed. any small fender bender would kill the biker.not everyone has money for car insurance and even then its unhealthy due to lack of exercise and bad for the environment to drive
this whole bike lane thing was stupidly done. If there is a car making a left turn or a car double parked not in the bike lane, drivers have no choice but to go into the bike lane to go around. Drivers do not think to check if there is a biker behind them when they go around double parked cars. It sounds like accidents waiting to happen.