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You can get to most of Manhattan under 125th st and almost all of northwest Brooklyn without leaving a bike lane: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bi
by hessproject 9y ago
You can get to most of Manhattan under 125th st and almost all of northwest Brooklyn without leaving a bike lane: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikemaps.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikemaps.shtml
Even in my neighborhood in Queens I can get into Manhattan with only a 3 block stretch outside of a bike lane.
Obviously there is going to be more traffic than Stockholm, we have almost 8 million more residents.
There is a already a large effort to create bike lanes in the city. The city website lists current bike lane projects: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bike-projects.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bike-projects.sh...
- dionidium 9y agoA bike lane is just paint on a road. Biking in Manhattan is still perilous, because cars and people routinely occupy the parts of the road with that green paint on it. A bike lane is an improvement, I guess, but it's the minimum a city claiming to care about cycling infrastructure can do.
- hessproject 9y agoThat's not necessarily true either, many of the new bike lanes being put in are protected lanes. That still runs in to the issue of pedestrians but they're a problem for car traffic in Manhattan too. Take this stretch of 7th avenue where they are removing a whole lane of car traffic to add in a new protected bike lane: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170925/chelsea/seventh-avenue-protected-bike-lanes https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170925/chelsea/seventh-av...
- staticelf 9y agoWas mostly biking in Brooklyn, not sure exactly where I went but from my experience at least, I didn't get to bike on a lot of biking lanes. Of course, there were some and some just painted on the road which cars drove on. So that didn't help much.