The guy has his driver run through stop signs ...and he’s worried about cyclists??? Hmmmm....
Posted on 10/28/2019 11:42:26 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The de Blasio administration has agreed to add 250 miles of protected bike lanes after a dramatic surge in cyclist deaths.
The mayor got behind City Council Speaker Corey Johnson's $1.7 billion proposal to remake the streets in an effort to, “break the car culture in New York,” as Johnson often puts it.
Twenty five people have died this year riding bicycles, compared to 10 in all of last year despite the mayor's safe streets agenda, which is called Vision Zero.
Bicycle advocates have been demanding the city take new action, especially as traffic increases from e-hailed vehicles and on-demand delivery services.
"Things are just clashing so we're seeing more crashes despite the city's efforts so the city needs to do more and this is a sign that the city will do more," said Jon Orcutt, a spokesman for Bike New York.
The mayor agreed to back legislation by Johnson to create a Streets Master Plan every five years.
The first plan must create at least 30 miles of protected bike lanes in year one and at least 50 miles a year after that for a total of 250 miles.
The city now has 1,250 miles of bike lanes, and nearly 40 percent of them are protected.
The bill also requires 150 miles of new bus lanes, the redesign of at least 2,000 intersections and the creation of a million square feet of pedestrian space.
Johnson's original bill, which the administration opposed, mandated a master plan this year.
Now, the first plan will be due by December 2021, de blasio's last month in office, leaving it to the next mayor to turn the plan into reality.
A mayoral spokesman defended the delay, saying time is needed to design the new street safety projects.
Appearing on Inside City Hall, de Blasio said Johnson's legislation builds on his administration's efforts.
“Our administration will do all the ground work to get ready to ramp up to that much higher level and then, my successor will take it forward,” de Blasio said Monday.
With the mayor's support the council plans to pass the legislation transforming city streets on Wednesday.
contracting deaths to get bikepaths at inflated cost to line his and friends pockets.
That's what I'm thinking right now.
The guy has his driver run through stop signs ...and he’s worried about cyclists??? Hmmmm....
Channeling Pol Pot.
De Blasio and Emperor Norton Newsom..breathtakingly incompetent ideologues.
In my nearby city (Pittsburgh, PA), they have added bike lanes, which to me look out of place and idiotic. The bicyclists I see are few and far between, but on a regular basis I see them acting dangerously, and even with no lights on at night. They are bad news.
I wonder how many remember the bicycle messenger movies filmed in nyc, and how reckless those cyclists were?
I wonder how many of those killed cyclists were still alcohol drinkers revoked of their driving privileges, with a can in hand?
How many of those killed were running dr
Bike lanes are put on streets that cars can barely fit on. For the most part they are empty. Cyclist are not responsible operators, pay no fines, are not registered and tagged with state operating licenses, registrations and inspections and where are the statistics on cyclist mowing down pedestrians? democratically run commie cities and states
They built bike paths connecting the towns down in the valley and if you venture down there you see the spandex queers still riding on the road taking up most of the lane when there’s the empty bike path literally two feet alongside to the right of them. They are assholes!
Are these bike riders required to have license or pay a fee for the bike lanes or is the motorist taxpayer paying for it? Let me guess....the bikers are getting a free ride.
Differential speed kills.
Motorcycles are inherently dangerous, because you are traveling at very high speed, with not much to protect your pink body from colliding with steel, asphalt, and concrete.
Bikes sharing the exact same roads as vehicles is a recipe for disaster. It is akin to placing children in a busy crosswalk to play.
Eventually, someone is going to get hurt or die.
Keep this child’s toy off of roads designed for, built for and paid for by cars and these deaths will stop.
My rhetorical stance has shifted somewhat over the years. I now begin with the argument that people should be able to walk safely around their own neighborhoods without getting killed by speeding commuters. Make the neighborhood safe for pedestrians and you can generally take care of the bicyclists at the same time. The big problems in urban and suburban areas are the lack of adequate shoulders or sidewalks in heavy traffic areas and the lack of safe crossings, which leads to jaywalking on dangerous streets. For bicyclists, add in chokepoints and barriers that force cyclists off reasonably safe neighborhood streets onto arterial roads, because there is no other practicable way to get from A to B.
Do you think that pedestrians should be taxed for building sidewalks, or is building a sidewalk part of building a safe road?
In principle, an adequate sidewalk can double as a bike path in high traffic areas. The best solution will depend on the engineering parameters on any given road. Along dangerous arterial roads, however, my preference (as a frequent cyclist) is grade separation between the road and the bike path, which means putting the bike path at the sidewalk level. If space permits, a wide sidewalk does the trick. This doesn't work as well in core downtown business districts where pedestrian traffic on sidewalks is heavy, but in most areas, that's not the case.
There are many simple things that can be done over time, if the design parameters for roads, shoulders and sidewalks are adjusted to accommodate multimodal traffic. The problem is that the car lobby wants every inch and every dollar devoted to traffic lanes for automobiles, which turns roads into barriers and hazards for anyone not in a car. My baseline response, again, is that people have a right to walk around their own neighborhoods safely. People should be able to cross the street safely. Children should be able to walk to a friend's house or to school. Etc. Make neighborhoods safe for pedestrians and it is child's play to make them safe for cyclists at the same time.
Pedestrian fatalities far outnumber cyclist fatalities. Fix that problem first, and do it in a smart way that sweeps up other modes (e.g. bicycles) at the same time.
Don’t NYC cyclists cause a lot of pedestrian injuries including death?
Some cities get federal funds for bike lanes, we all pay for it.
In the meantime, some additional attention and money can be devoted to chokepoints and barriers. These places are often notorious to the local walking and biking communities. They are the places where the road designers have choked off intermodal movement to the point that everyone gets forced onto an arterial road, at least for a short distance until you can get back off onto a safe neighborhood street. This is where pedestrians and cyclists get hit. They are forced to cross killing zones. That's bad design.
Put a sidewalk on the %$(*@?+! bridge. Install a few more traffic lights so that you don't have to go a mile to get to the next safe crossing. Etc.
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