whither the 5th avenue bike lanes?

meredithb · June 2009

I'm for good markings and a ban on joggers during rush hour. I mean really, if you feel you need to run on the bridge for your own vanity, do it when there aren't so many people.

flynn · June 2009

vidro3 wrote: They should just give the tourists a traffic lane and let bikers have the whole path. or vice versa

i am in complete agreement with this. riding over this (brooklyn) bridge is by far the worst part of my commute. between tourists who have no idea that they should not suddenly "jump" into the bike lane when i am 2 feet away, to people who know, but just don't give a damn, the bridge bike and pedestrian lanes are a mess.

i have some nasty scars from collisions on this bridge and will probably continue to add to them over the next few years.

ringrunner · June 2009

MeredithB wrote: I'm for good markings and a ban on joggers during rush hour. I mean really, if you feel you need to run on the bridge for your own vanity, do it when there aren't so many people.

I run a lot. I also choose to run over the Manhattan or Williamsburg Bridges if The Brooklyn Bridge is going to be crowded with oblivious tourists. (I call them oblivatourists.)

But running over the Brooklyn Bridge has nothing to do with vanity.

You would believe me if you saw me.

meredithb · June 2009

ringrunner wrote: But running over the Brooklyn Bridge has nothing to do with vanity.

So you're running to get to or from work?

ringrunner · June 2009

I am running to maintain good health.

I used to run to work.

If it had anything to do with vanity, I would think I would try to look good while doing it, and expect people to look at me.

I don't look good and I don't care if people look at me.

meredithb · June 2009

OK maybe vanity is the wrong word, but unlike the majority of bicyclists going over the bridge who are are their way to work or school or somewhere, joggers are going nowhere, they are just running for their own health. Go to a park or gym and stop blindly running into the bicycle lane because tourists are taking up the pedestrian path.

Thank you.

ringrunner · June 2009

I run over the Bridge about once a week. Most bikers are in the bike lane and most runners are in the pedestrian lane.

Your problem is with the tourists. They are all over the place.

Not just on foot but tourists are now renting bikes at the South Street Seaport.

But, I don't deny the tourists the walk over the Bridge. I have often informed them that they are in the wrong place.

Please, don't tell me where to run.

vidro3 · July 2009

the brooklyn paper advocates delivery zones on every corner after a 72 year old cyclist was killed on Saturday.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/26/32_26_rv_fifth_ave.html

the chipster · July 2009

The best news I've heard here is that the lanes are being painted.
Imagine if everyone who actually wanted to ride a bike could do so safely. It's nuts, it's a terrible example for our kids, and it reinforces their dependence on their parents cars in some cases. Sure my kid wants to ride to school. Too bad he can't.
And we wonder about childhood obesity.

scottb2k · July 2009

vidro3 wrote: the brooklyn paper advocates delivery zones on every corner after a 72 year old cyclist was killed on Saturday.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/26/32_26_rv_fifth_ave.html

That article is absolutely retarded. So someone is riding a bike and drives through a red light and gets hit by a car and somehow that incident occured because there are no bike lanes or delivery zones?

The article is titled "Fifth Avenue fatality shows that this road needs to be safer". It should be titled, "Fifth Avenue fatality shows that ignoring red lights is detrimental to ones health"

How would bike lanes or delivery zones have stopped this guy from getting killed?

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_brooklyn_bicyclist_killed_after_crash_with_van.html

Brooklyn bicyclist killed after crash with van
By Rachel Monahan and Wil Cruz
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Sunday, June 28th 2009, 4:00 AM

An elderly bicyclist was struck and killed by a van in Brooklyn, police and witnesses said.

The 72-year-old man was riding south on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope Saturday morning when the maroon passenger van crashed into him, cops said.

"At the last moment I caught sight of him," said the 61-year-old van driver, a Vietnam veteran who was visibly shaken. "I tried to stop the vehicle."

It was too late.

The impact left the bicyclist, who witnesses said was not wearing a helmet, critically injured. Paramedics rushed him to Lutheran Medical Center, but he succumbed to his injuries.

Police did not identify the man because they were trying to locate his relatives. The driver of the van was not charged, cops said.

"The van had the green light," said Munique Lee, of the Bronx, who was getting her hair done on Dean St. "The guy on the bike really wasn't paying attention."

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