MOVE THE BIKE LANE

BEFORE

AFTER

I really wish they moved the bike lane.  Mayor Bloomberg has done and excellent job embracing bike culture in NYC and especially in Brooklyn.  Bicycle infrastructure is amazing yet they are missing one important detail.  Get the bike lane out of the street.  Move the bike lane between the sidewalk and parked cars.  I think if we used parked cars to buffer the bike lane we there would be less bike fatalities and less bicycle accidents. I applaud transportation alternatives and Mike Bloomberg on the bike friendly initially the city has seen in recent years but this simple repositioning will save lives.  And from the drivers point of view it is a lot easier to parallel park without driving backward through the bike lane.

Bus Stops: The "If it ain't broke don't fix it" Dept.

Ben: What do you think of the new bus stops?
Girl: They're nice, they put a couple of them in Staten Island
B: But are they really necessary
G: No not really, like kids in Staten Island like to shoot them with bb guns just for fun
B: So they become targets for crime and vandalism?
G: Yes definately

Mr. Bloomberg was this the best way to improve our city? Why can't we have more places to lock our bikes?
Why can't we have more hybrid buses?

The new New York City bus shelter was designed by Grimshaw Architects and is run by the Spanish advertising company Cemusa.