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Cycling in NYC is highly dependent on the bike lanes on your route. There are good stretches of quality bike lane here and there (especially in Brooklyn), howev
by aqme28 9y ago
Cycling in NYC is highly dependent on the bike lanes on your route. There are good stretches of quality bike lane here and there (especially in Brooklyn), however there are parts of e.g. Chinatown that I would not recommend on a bike.
- subpixel 9y agoI would add to that list the entirety of Queens, where I regularly see people cycling down Northern Boulevard. I'm not familiar with roads in other cities to compare it to, so you'll have to use your imagination when I say: it's very dangerous.
- akgerber 9y agoMuch of Queens Boulevard already has a protected bike lane, and more will soon: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/08/04/eyes-on-the-street-the-queens-boulevard-bike-lane-reaches-rego-park/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/08/04/eyes-on-the-street-th...
- subpixel 9y agoNone of the bike lanes on Queens Boulevard are protected. And according to the article, when it is "protected", it will be with "plastic posts". Here's what cement dividers on Norther Boulevard protect riders from (scroll down for photos): http://qns.com/story/2017/12/07/poorly-designed-hastily-constructed-another-queens-rep-wants-northern-boulevard-bike-lane-gone/ http://qns.com/story/2017/12/07/poorly-designed-hastily-cons...