Tag: BikeNYC

Beijing is looking more like New York City, and New York City is moving towards Beijing in the 1950s and 60s,” Markowitz said. “I’m not against bike lanes all around New York City, but I do believe you and I as the public have right to have a word and have a say in where bike lanes should go.

This may be the stupidest thing I have ever read in The New Yorker. One of the most glorious things about my hometown is that you do not need a car to explore any part of it. Driving and parking a car in the city (especially Manhattan) is an unnecessary hassle. Cassidy may insist on pursuing the peculiar habit of driving his beloved Jaguar everywhere, but to think that anyone else in the city should give a damn about his habit, or his resentment of bikes, is laughable.

In recent and not-so-recent years, every city administration has aggressively rolled out car lanes all across the city, snatching away space from pedestrians and cyclists and handing them over to drivers. A new report by Captain Obvious, however, found that the lanes in Manhattan aren’t living up to hopes – with motorists illegally speeding and parked in them, pedestrians and cyclists snarled in them, and traffic causing excessive air and noise pollution in them.

Should we pull the plug on Manhattan car lanes?