StreetFilms-Gridlock Sam on NYC's 1980 Bike Lanes

[sarahshevett]

Another unmentioned problem was truck unloading. It was extremely difficult for trucks to park on the outside of the bike lanes ( in traffic) haul their stuff over those medians and across the bike lanes.

[VoleShow]

The bike failed back then mainly because anyone with a push cart took them over and a bike couldn't get around them. Sixth Avenue was really bad with this problem especially in midtown around the office buildings. This was before the internet and you had hundreds of people pushing carts of paper work and internal office mail thru the streets. The bike lanes now are respected better by non-bike riders.

[Cruentus1]

The big problem with protected bike lanes is that pedestrians use it like a sidewalk/jogging path etc. There is a very nice paved, mixed use path near my house. Unless I go out very early in the morning, I avoid it for bike riding. Pedestrians will walk 3/4 abreast, and refuse to move over. Dog walkers will be on one side, with the dogs on the other, and the leash stretched across the path. Nice idea in theory, but it doesn't work in the real world.

[jolivia]

the curbed bike lanes were a good idea.

[joebonk]

garage board of trade, automobile club? i bet those arent funded by oil and car industries. why arent there public space, child space, elderly people space, pedestrian special interest groups? pedestrianize the fuckin city, are you people blind to population density? its embarassing if you consider what future humans will think