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Nice and wide too.

Despite "community" opposition, DOT has been pouring concrete and marking new bike lanes around Wingate Park/High School.

Lines are painted, and these new lanes are rideable (though the protected segments still need fresh Kermit):

• Kingston Av 2-way protected from Winthrop to Rutland
• Kingston Av n/b protected from Rutland to E New York
• Rutland Rd e/b unprotected from Flatbush to Brooklyn Av
• Rutland Rd e/b protected from Brooklyn to Kingston
• Fenimore st w/b unprotected from Brooklyn to Flatbush

Still to come are:

• Brooklyn Av s/b protected from E New York to Rutland
• Brooklyn Av 2-way protected from Rutland to Winthrop
• Winthrop w/b protected from Kingston to Brooklyn

When completed, the project will add 1.2 miles of new protected bike lanes and 1.6 miles of new unprotected bike lanes.

Seems like he got a lot of feedback about wearing one on social. Lead by example!

A flyer caught my attention, sharing with the netizens if you haven't seen it. If you live, and/or work in the area you may have an opinion about what happens to these streets. ​

>NYC DOT is studying possible changes to Grand Street and Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge. The study is looking at whether Grand Street could become one-way eastbound and Metropolitan Avenue could become one-way westbound.

Take the survey. Visit the project page.

Can we just ban these things already

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Q101 is getting automated enforcement :)

No im not blocking their license plate. I hade the right of way and this lady still tried to run me over. Her fake apology immediately turned me off. The light was red and i sincerely dont think she was going to stop. I cursed her out and told her sorry doesnt cut i almost got killed because you cant pay attention. I really dont believe her when she said she was sorry because the light was red why werent you stopped? It makes 0 sense. I had the right of way so its not like im in the wrong for walking

Even when youre in the right somehow you're still in the wrong!!!

This was around 14 st near the LGBT Center in the Village

Just her lack of sincerity pissed me off but im grateful i didnt get any serious injuries. Im tired of these drivers in this city. I wish I could report her somehow but cursing them out was the best I could do in this car hell hole

Bike lanes and pedestrian spaces should be unremarkable in New York City. These things should be considered the bare minimum of what we would expect.

Hear me out: Giant bike lane implementations are amazing but almost always get hit with lawsuits, especially outside of Manhattan. Meanwhile the DOT just added 4 blocks of protected bike lanes in Dumbo with almost zero press coverage. I can't even find design details online. Same thing happened on Union St in Gowanus. It seems like this could be a faster strategy to build out a network and harder for opponents to stop/rally against. Change is scary for people so lots of continuous micro changes could reduce that fear.

I understand this could be more expensive/logistically expensive but so are lawsuits. I am also not saying we stop with big single changes, I'm saying we should push harder for these little changes. They could be happening on a weekly basis.

Photo credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comments/1v5xeq4/upgraded_bike_lanes_in_dumbo/