There's plenty of research out there showing that when you add a protected bike lane, a street becomes safer for ALL road users.
However, I'm not convinced that the traffic calming effect that made it safer actually continues to work if you don't bother to maintain the "protection". I fear it's actually the opposite; without the protection, drivers see just a clear lane and drive faster than they did before (where parked cars used to slow down cars, prior to PBL installation). #SafeStreets
@Andres4NY Did you see the post on NYCbike Reddit this week about the person who hit a collapsed post (obviously run over by a driver)? They were hospitalized with serious injuries.
Please hit that follow button if you want to catch all my posts on NY + NYC transportation legislation (good and bad). It will always be of substance, never with any character attacks.
TIL that you can buy the official #Philly cheesesteak cheese, Cooper Sharp, in #kingstonNY. I've never seen it in NYC.
However, if you order a cheesesteak here, you get precooked roast beef (!!!), sliced then heated on a griddle with American cheese, and served on a round roll.
@joy I have a feeling this is a new thing, popularized in part by Angelo's, Middle Child, and their ilk of sandwich shops. I'm more of a provolone person , Can't believe anyone orders Whiz! ;)
Went to the C*stco website to look for something, and saw that they are selling these carbon gravel bikes for $1500, choice of Shimano or SRAM drivetrain.
Is this a good deal? Or not? Serious question -- I don't know much about carbon or gravel.
@glightly Gross. I've always wanted to build a steel touring bike.
Still have to post about our CDMX visit, but my wife and I rode heavy (45+ lbs) EcoBici/Citibikes to the end of the Ciclotรณn highway closure. At the finish line, a guy showed up on foot with a carbon road bike whose frame had snapped in two, splitting right before the head tube. He walked off sullenly, carrying front and rear of the bike in separate hands, presumably to call a car service.
The more I read about this, the better it looks! The New York City Department of Transportation is proposing to take a shitty, cars-only road that's a combination access road for the Van Cortlandt Park golf course and on/offramp to the Major Deegan Expressway, reallocate a ton of asphalt to parkland and a raised/curb-protected bike path, build sidewalks and stripe crosswalks. Yay!
@capntransit Are these some of the ramps/sidewalks used for 24/7 truck storage? I assume those are driven by drivers who run out of legal driving time but have nowhere to go.
Here's an illegal 53 ft tractor trailer running over the curb protection to unload in the bike lane this morning. Coincidentally, this is where two DOT signs were snapped off at the base last week.
The supermarket has no loading zone. The 40-story residential building directly opposite also houses a CVS and a restaurant, but has no legal curb space at all.
This marked bike lane on the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge is both the Empire State Trail and a NYS Bicycle Highway. That didn't stop NYSDOT from placing these road work signs in the bike lane on an uphill stretch of the bridge with no warning or detour. Cyclists should have been directed to use the sidewalk.
The Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge carries the #EmpireStateTrail over the Hudson River. It has one motor vehicle travel lane in each direction, with a speed limit of 35 mph.
That didn't stop a 5-car pileup from happening last week, with one SUV flipping over and landing on its roof in the unprotected bike lane.
So, the latest news is Threads says they are planning to start testing some kind of ability to see Threads posts on Mastodon (and other Fediverse apps), but you won't be able to comment, and Threads users won't be able to see any Fediverse content.
They are calling this ActivityPub "integration" but, at least for now, it is only a one way street. You may be able to see into their walled garden, but Threads users are not going to be able to see you.
Funny, that's more than IG users can see of Threads right now. IG allowed viewing of suggested Threads, but now the same click takes you to an app store to install the Threads app. No thanks.
It does seem that a lot of Urbanist Twitter has moved to Threads.
REI is running crazy deals on its Generation e1.1 and e1.2 cargo bikes, which now have UL certification, and I have no need for another cargo bike or another ebike, so I have been trying not to buy one all day. #biketooter#cargobike
@rose Another case where bike infrastructure cannot be installed without "enough outreach," yet can be erased without any outreach whatsoever. #BikeTooter
For years I've wanted to go to #Chicago and do a tour of #streetfood / #workingclass food entirely by bike. I also want to explore the inland waterways.
I'd love to take my own bike via #amtrak from NY, find a place to stay, and GoPro the whole thing.
I've started my map. That's always the first step.
People arguing in the comments! It's just like Xitter!
ALL paths need to be wider. But the #MoreSpaceQBB debacle in #BikeNYC shows how difficult or impossible this can be when the need is crystal clear to anyone who looks at it. (For anyone unfamiliar, pedestrians and bikes are forced into a literal cage match in a space that's the width of one car lane, which is then overrun by 30+ mph gas motorcycles and e-things zigzagging between other users.)