That'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 pr

That'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...