new bike lanes--please help!

sebhavers

Hey guys, if anyone wants to help out and get new bikes lanes around here. thanks in advance! seb.

If you live in Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill or Bed-Stuy,
write to the NYC Department of Transportation’s Brooklyn office and tell
them you support the planned bike lanes on Cumberland, Carlton and
Willoughby.

The DOT needs to hear from you! Without community support, the DOT will not put in these bike lanes.

PLEASE write a letter to the Brooklyn DOT and tell them, as a Fort
Greene/Clinton Hill/Prospect Heights/Bed-Stuy resident, you are excited for the new bike lanes they are planning on Cumberland, Carlton and Willoughby.

The DOT’s plan is on line at:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/pr2006/pr06_37.html

-the Cumberland lane will run southbound from the Navy Yard to Atlantic Ave

-the Carlton lane will run northbound from Flatbush to the Navy Yard

-the Willoughby lane will run eastbound from Fort Greene Park to Myrtle (in Bushwick)

The new lanes will connect with each other and with the existing bike lanes
on Dean, Bergen, DeKalb and Myrtle and with the planned Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.

Letters should be sent to:

Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Joe Palmieri
NYC Department of Transportation
16 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11241
FAX: (718) 222-7256

Letters can go out any time in the next week.

Letters should note any of the following:

-VERY IMPORTANT: I live, work, spend time/money in Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill and regularly ride my bike for transportation and/or recreation

-excitement and support for the planned bike lanes on Cumberland, Carlton and Willoughby

-heard about the planned bike lanes from: friend, NYC DOT website
(http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/pr2006/pr06_37.html), Courier Life newspaper (http://www.courierlife.net/site/tab10.cfm?newsid=16766415&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=552856&rfi=6),
Community Board Two calendar, other?

-these new bike lanes will make my biking experience: better, easier, safer, more enjoyable/relaxing/pleasant, more frequent

-The existing Downtown Brooklyn bike lanes (Dean, Bergen, Clinton Street, DeKalb, Myrtle) have calmed traffic, made biking feel safer and generally made the streets more pleasant. These bike lanes will do the same.

-more bike lanes and street improvements that make biking and walking safer and easier will encourage more people to bike and walk more often and reduce automobile traffic, making streets safer, reducing air and noise pollution, improving quality of life

carnivore

This from NY-1 today:
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62539

sje

Thank you for posting this.

rhodamine

of related note:

http://www.mybikelane.com

alafairnadia

rhodamine wrote: of related note:

http://www.mybikelane.com

I don't own a bike or ride a bike but that's pretty awesome.