Bike lanes in Manhattan are poorly conceived, designed and maintained. It almost as if a bunch of fat road engineers tried biking and gave up. Look at the Netherlands. The roads are optimized for bikes and surface transit not cars.
Improve separation of cyclists and walkers. The avenue bike lanes while offering some protection from high impact crashes are now dangerous for pedestrians. They are often slippery from garbage, litter and dogs feces.
Central Park needs pedestrian tunnels/bridges at high trafficked locations.
Hi, Widen, widen, WIDEN the Avenue bike lanes to accommodate 2-way travel. The added space, with adequate street markings and maybe haptic or sound cues at the cross walks should help alert walkers distracted by Fb.
A few well position tunnels will go a long way toward avoiding bike/walker mayhem. The Columbus Circle and Boathouse park loop crossings are the main death traps.
As I state in my initial comment we need to think in terms of optimizing roads for alternative forms of transportation not cars. As long as we continue to make roads car friendly in urban environments nothing will change.
Bike lanes in Manhattan are poorly conceived, designed and maintained. It almost as if a bunch of fat road engineers tried biking and gave up. Look at the Netherlands. The roads are optimized for bikes and surface transit not cars.
Improve separation of cyclists and walkers. The avenue bike lanes while offering some protection from high impact crashes are now dangerous for pedestrians. They are often slippery from garbage, litter and dogs feces.
Central Park needs pedestrian tunnels/bridges at high trafficked locations.
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Hi, Widen, widen, WIDEN the Avenue bike lanes to accommodate 2-way travel. The added space, with adequate street markings and maybe haptic or sound cues at the cross walks should help alert walkers distracted by Fb.
View this comment in the discussion thread
A few well position tunnels will go a long way toward avoiding bike/walker mayhem. The Columbus Circle and Boathouse park loop crossings are the main death traps.
View this comment in the discussion thread
As I state in my initial comment we need to think in terms of optimizing roads for alternative forms of transportation not cars. As long as we continue to make roads car friendly in urban environments nothing will change.
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