As we reported on Wednesday, crews are laying the pedalers’ paths and new parking lanes for the
EVG regular Lola Sáenz noted this morning that workers are creating the bike-lane outlines on 12th Street ... with crews spotted at First Avenue...
... and heading east toward Avenue C...
One worker told Lola that the green machine is on Greenwich today painting the bike lanes... and making its way toward the east...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Prepping for the new protected bike lanes on 12th and 13th streets
Cant wait. The streets, with less cars, look like real streets, with a lot of open space and one narrow lane for traffic, which, due to that, moves slower and is safer for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI hope these crosstown traverses stay after the L return.
@9:44am you must not be looking at the same streets as me, you can really fly down 12th and 13th now that there is a buffer zone to the left! It also makes it so much easier to really zip around stopped cabs!
ReplyDeleteParked cars slow down traffic, because you can't just drive around them; look at 10th St. between 2nd and 1st Ave., every single evening. Do you really care about traffic calming, or do you just have an Amish-level mistrust of cars?
I was really hoping they'd re-pave the bike lane portion of 12th St. After seeing the cars removed, it looks like a mess.
ReplyDelete9:44: safety shmafety! these lanes are impeding cars ability to exceed the speed limit, something that a lot of neighborhood residents seem pretty upset over. People freak out and clutch their chests, as if they are closing the street to cars entirely, or something like that. Something something personal liberty, won't someone think of the elderly and disabled? and also bicyclists are losers, et al. Oh and I forgot, we need more bus lanes! That will surely fix everything!
ReplyDeleteThe street looks so much nicer without the line of stationary vehicles. Go one block south to 11th st between 1st and 2nd. You see that out of state Campervan parking there? It was there yesterday, it’s there today, it won’t move till Monday when street cleaning is back. Same for that car with license plate XOPO, the Honda with the Florida license plate...
ReplyDeleteI rode the bike lane to pick up the kids from school. It is much safer already to ride next to the curb and not so close to the moving vehicles or in the door zone of the parked cars.
@1:43pm: Why are you snarking about "Something something personal liberty, won't someone think of the elderly and disabled?" You embody what everyone hates in bike riders.
ReplyDeleteI hope you live a VERY long life in NYC - long enough to become a person who freaks out when crossing the street b/c you are elderly and/or disabled, since right now you don't have a CLUE.
Just causing an older person to lose their balance can be so traumatizing that they go out of their apartments less often. You are probably sitting there thinking that's ridiculous, but it's not.
And what might look to you to be a minor fall IS a big deal to a senior citizen, b/c even a broken rib (much less multiple broken ribs) can be life-changing.
But just go about your confident, "I own the streets" biking; your comment makes evident your attitude toward older people (namely, that they don't much matter).
I honestly hope the karma of all the bike jerks comes around very quickly.
@1:43pm: It's time for you to move to Amsterdam, where all your wishes will come true. NYC will never meet your expectations.
ReplyDeleteI rode my bike across 13th from First Ave to Broadway today and the entire block between 3rd and 4th Aves had cars parked on the left. Totally ignoring the 'no standing anytime' signs posted along the entire block. Also, every morning a UPS truck is permanently parked and unloading on 13th next to the Verizon building, close to 2nd. These lanes will merely serve as lip service by city hall as a "we did something ". It's already a joke!
ReplyDelete<Parked cars slow down traffic, because you can't just drive around them; look at 10th St. between 2nd and 1st Ave., every single evening. Do you really care about traffic calming, or do you just have an Amish-level mistrust of cars?
ReplyDelete9:44 that block is a mess. Is that your example of traffic calming? But having grown up in the city with these metal boxes lining both sides of the street, I hope it is time -- especially with the recent dire climate change alerts -- for a paradigm shift.
Amish? I wish the streets were more Amish!
@Amish
ReplyDeleteIt isn't a climate change issue; would you care if they were electric cars? They're big metal boxes, either way.
Incidentally, do you really think the streets were ever a quiet, clean, peaceful paradise? The streets of NYC were much dirtier before urban sanitation was a thing, and more dangerous before cars and (the attempt at) jaywalking legislation, in fact per capita horse-related fatalies were far higher than they are today: From Horse Power to Horsepower
Yeah, Amish-style NYC... we'd last about 3 days on the food supply.
@11:43am: You say "you can really fly down 12th and 13th now that there is a buffer zone to the left! It also makes it so much easier to really zip around stopped cabs!"
ReplyDeleteYour comment is pretty much proof of how bike riders conduct themselves vis-a-vis others on the streets: you want to FLY down the street and ZIP AROUND stopped cabs, no matter how dangerous that is for others (or, for that matter, how dangerous it might be for you).
I feel infinitely more vulnerable now, knowing that people who want to FLY without being impeded by an annoying obstacle like a car (much less a little old lady like me) are out there, looking to see how fast they can go.
A lot of you complain about the amount of vehicles in the area, but these vehicles bring commerce to our neighborhood. We have people that live in the neighborhood that have to drive out to work. We have People that live outside of the city that need to work in the area, or need to make deliveries to its business. With all this limiting of parking in the area why and how are these people suppose to survive in the area. For those of you that say good riddance when you need people to fix things in your apartment or buildings good luck. Also get ready to see more and more store fronts over time.
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