I am a huge, huge supporter of the toll swap plan. While I ride my bike to work almost every day, when I do have to take public transit, the conditions are extremely frustrating. More money needs to be injected into improving the public transit system and this is the best plan I've seen that will help accomplish this. My only concern is how fast changes can be made to the transit systems. With demand increasing and increasing, I'm just hoping the MTA can keep up...
I bike commute everyday and bike to get around most places, so I'm exploring much of NYC by bike. I'm actually very impressed at how many dedicated bike lanes (protected or not) are getting installed right now. I've only been here about 2 years and already my own bike commute got a facelift with a protected cycle track and my ride to my gym is getting a dedicated lane on the bridge into Queens. I think the city is doing an amazing job. There is definitely more work that can be done, but for the resources available, and in the time span that this is all happening, I applaud the city.
Many European cities are a great model for bike/ped spaces. I can't remember the name of the city, but believe it was either in Germany or Belgium, where certain areas of the city had extremely low speed limits. I think this is important because regardless of the bike lanes, some people just can't handle the high speeds of vehicles (on a bike, to some people, 30mph can seem very fast). The 25mph is slow, and definitely outraged many drivers, but there is more that can be done and some european cities have accomplished this.
Almost every other metropolitan city I've either lived in, or visited, has done buses better than NYC. I don't take the bus now, but I would if it was better. I lived in London for a few years and was an avid bus rider (in lieu of the tube). Their local bus system was great, in my opinion, and NYC can learn something from them.
I think SBS is definitely a worthwhile investment and think NYC should keep pursuing it.
I am a huge, huge supporter of the toll swap plan. While I ride my bike to work almost every day, when I do have to take public transit, the conditions are extremely frustrating. More money needs to be injected into improving the public transit system and this is the best plan I've seen that will help accomplish this. My only concern is how fast changes can be made to the transit systems. With demand increasing and increasing, I'm just hoping the MTA can keep up...
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I bike commute everyday and bike to get around most places, so I'm exploring much of NYC by bike. I'm actually very impressed at how many dedicated bike lanes (protected or not) are getting installed right now. I've only been here about 2 years and already my own bike commute got a facelift with a protected cycle track and my ride to my gym is getting a dedicated lane on the bridge into Queens. I think the city is doing an amazing job. There is definitely more work that can be done, but for the resources available, and in the time span that this is all happening, I applaud the city.
Many European cities are a great model for bike/ped spaces. I can't remember the name of the city, but believe it was either in Germany or Belgium, where certain areas of the city had extremely low speed limits. I think this is important because regardless of the bike lanes, some people just can't handle the high speeds of vehicles (on a bike, to some people, 30mph can seem very fast). The 25mph is slow, and definitely outraged many drivers, but there is more that can be done and some european cities have accomplished this.
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Almost every other metropolitan city I've either lived in, or visited, has done buses better than NYC. I don't take the bus now, but I would if it was better. I lived in London for a few years and was an avid bus rider (in lieu of the tube). Their local bus system was great, in my opinion, and NYC can learn something from them.
I think SBS is definitely a worthwhile investment and think NYC should keep pursuing it.
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