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Hi!
I live on Eastern Parkway btw Franklin and Bedford and need to go to 330 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211. What bicycle route would you advice (safest)?
Thanks a lot!
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get up to flushing whatever way you fancy (Vanderbilt is usually the easiest, or washington north of atlantic), and then take the flushing/kent bikeway.
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Bedford all the way until Kent and then you will see your destination
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Bedford, IMO, is a pretty dangerous street. Bike lanes or not. Vanderbilt Avenue & Washington Avenue seems to be the lesser of the evils once you get past Atlantic Avenue.
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Check out http://www.nycbikemaps.com/.
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Thank so much to all of you
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If the OP is at Beford and EP, I'd suggest taking Classon all the way down to Kent. No bike lane, but its a one way and far closer than Washington or Vandy from her starting point.
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But with Classon you have all of the BQE bound traffic, whom by the way, drive very aggressively so as to make the lights and fill the holes. Not to mention the crazy-ass curve and potholes when it merges into the BQE entrance/Kent Avenue split. With Vanderbilt & Washington the traffic calms down somewhat after Atlantic Avenue. I believe the only logistical problem may be the Kent Ave/Wythe Ave merge around the BQE/Classon area. It's like trying to navigate kruegel noodles. At least for me it is.
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^ agreed, and Bedford's no picnic either; traffic's a beast and there's a ton of wrong-way cyclists. Classon's 2 or 3 ave's closer to me than Vandy, but vanderbilt's my go-to choice.
Getting to vanderbilt, now with all of the construction on EP, is a different story all together. Classon -> bergen usually works.
I hear Classon's getting those extended parking-lane markers, though? Not a lane, but definitely helpful.
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I find ridethecity.com to be the best of the online bike maps.
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Bedford is it. But any northern route through Bed Stuy is gonna be a little hairy.
[Mamacita said:
I <3 CTK
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Bedford is horrible. In between the wide berth of reckless cars trying to beat the lights and the school buses swerving to the left to block said drivers from hitting the kids being dropped off: you'd be lucky to come out of the experience with your nerves intact. You can't always go by the City installed bike lanes. Some do tend to be on dangerous streets.
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The only time I've hit a pedestrian on my bike was on Bedford... dude literally jumped out between parked cars and started playing Frogger
But like I said that beats Classon by a landslide because of all the nuts trying to get to the BQE
Plus a lot of time on Bedford the traffic comes and goes in light-forced waves
But I used to bike/drive up Bedford a few times a week... it wasn't great but it wasn't terrible
[Mamacita said:
I <3 CTK
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I vote Bedford. Especially once you get ahead of traffic.
The school buses suck, but are only a problem in the morning and at 5 pm or whenever they get out.
Cars double park a lot, but that happens everywhere.
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Classon is a disaster going north as is Franklin going south. These roads are are too narrow for two cars but drivers keep trying. Woe to the cyclist caught in the fray.
Bedford, while busy, has a bike line, in both directions actually south of Atlantic. As cyclists, we need to own our space and use the bike lanes. Using non-bike laned streets such as Franklin (south of Atlantic) and Classon doesn't help the cause. The more often motorists see cyclists in bike lanes, the more likely they are to see the bike lanes as legitimate uses of public roadways. -
You can always look up bike directions on hopstop also though sometimes they pick the wierdest routes.
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