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Ride the City route showing the safest way to get from Ars Nova to McCarren Park in Brooklyn.
Streetsblog points out a handy new website called Ride the City that’s beta testing a version of Google Maps integrated with ideal cycling routes. The New York City site lets users plan a bicycle commute from point A to point B in any borough, choosing between the “safest” route along as many bike lanes and greenways as possible, or the “fastest” route which lets you plot the most direct course by bike. All known bike shops along the route also appear on the map.
The site’s creators, who started working on it last year independently of the Google Maps “Bike There” petition, are looking for feedback from cyclists to improve the route selection. Other improvements in the works include a mobile version that would send cycling directions via text message and the addition of any bike parking facilities near a trip's starting/ending point. And more quotes from rock stars like Bob Weir ("Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls") seem inevitable.
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This is cool, I've been saving my paths on google earth lately.
there are no "safe" routes unless its on the west side pathway and there aren't any drunk drivers. All these bikepaths will be blocked by double parked cars and taxis.
It is a nice day for a bike ride today. You'd probably die of heatstroke before you got out of Manhattan. At the very least you'd need a shower immediately upon arriving.
This is pretty useful. Too bad, as babyhitler pointed out, bike paths are all too often blocked.
until the streets are completely revamped to make them safer for bikers there are no "safe" routes
#3- I find that if you go twenty miles on westside pathway the wind that you generate is good enough to cool you down. Stopping is another story though. Once you stop you get the body heat accumulation as well as the sun all bearing down on you.
I applaud them for the effort, but it's just not as easy as mapping out directions for a vehicle. There are plenty of streets I'd feel safer on than ones with so-called bike lanes; the west side is going to be faster than streets anytime (for lack of traffic and lights), which it cannot yet understand; and just now I put in some coordinates and it took me twenty blocks out of my way.
apparently none of you have been on the west side on the weekend...not safe at all. unless maybe you're walking your bike alongside three friends and you're all blathering on obliviously...but i digress