The press reported only the retailers' complaints, not the thousands of downtown residents who were inconvenienced by this suburban nonsense.

We had closed streets, so the cars were forced to use neighboring streets, creating more congestion than usual for a Saturday and frustrated car honking. It was terrible.

Sadik-Khan wants to be Transportation Czar under Obama, so of course she'll lie and say everyone loved it.

Maybe the cyclists from Bklyn liked it, but it was a nightmare for lower Manhattan residents.
The local community board #1 opposed it initially, so the DOT never bothered to ask the other boards for fear of rejection.

Sadik-Khan is a dictator on a bike.

@#2:

Don't generalize. I live in lower Manhattan and loved it.

Sure, it will inconvenience some, but it's a great program.

"thefacts" has always been rabidly against Summer Streets and bicycles in particular. I was hoping this would happen, if only to piss him off. Maybe make it every summer Saturday morning next year, from June through September? Twelve weeks, including the cooler, more comfortable days early and late in the season.

I live downtown and I loved it as well!

People belong in the City, cars (and their horns)belong in the suburbs.

Maybe "thefacts" needs to find a good real estate agent in Roslyn.

Actually the traffic coming off the Brooklyn Bridge was pretty bad on the last Saturday of Summer Streets. People were stuck in extra traffic and then funneled into the shithole that is lower Manhattan construction.

Tell me #3, 4, 5:
How close do you live to Lafayette/Centre Street, where this nonsense occurred?

Living downtown could mean Battery Park City.
Be specific.

People who lived near this were not pleased when all the traffic was pushed over to the nearby adjacent streets. Bet you didn't have a parking lot in front of your home and cacophony from the resulting gridlock at 10 am on an otherwise quiet summer morning.

This did not eliminate traffic, silly. It just moved it to other people's neighborhood. That is not right. That is not a solution. That is a band-aid fix meant to ameliorate people who belong in Amsterdam, not NY.

Btw I don't own a car, you presumptuous person.

Doing yoga in the street definitely qualifies as jerkoff evidence...

Btw I don't own a car, you presumptuous person.

But he does own a bike. He just absolutely refuses to ride it, ever. And here he goes again whining how CB1 wasn't allowed to vote on it. As if community boards were a democratic institution that represented the people. News flash: community board members are not elected by anyone. They're appointed by the borough president. Half of them are recommended by the City Council while the other half get picked solely by the BP. They don't have to answer to the public because there's nothing we can do about them or to them.

Let "thefacts" bitch and moan about it. There's not a damn thing he or his beloved CB1 can do. Bring on more Summer Streets! And maybe even Autumn Streets, Spring Streets and even Winter Streets!

Have any of you ever seen Sadik-Khan get all bent out of shape when someone politely disagrees with her ideas?

This lady *flips* out and gets very, VERY nasty when you don't agree with her ideas.

Oh, and I like how she just pushed this whole thing down everyone's throat without asking CB2 or CB3.

Just like the "new and improved" bike lane they're going to build on Grand, which is supposed to be a east-west artery for bicyclists, yet stops @ Chrystie. Because, you know, they even admitted that no one uses the bike lane that's there now.

Huh?

This is just a ridiculous idea all round and it's pretty obvious that you guys who love it aren't willing to see the other perspective. NIMBY, right?

Somehow several posts here have devolved into rants on the commissioner's personality and ambition, rather than the subject. Gotta wonder why.

That "they even admitted that no one uses the bike lane that's there now" [if that's so] could have something to do with the fact that you put your life in your hands (even more than elsewhere) to ride there.

No need to repeat the flawed logic in the complaint about "asking" the community boards when 16 stated it so well.

Fine. If you want this nonsense in your neighborhood, petition Diktator Khan for it. That's the democratic way!

But I'll bet she'll ignore you, like she does everyone else.

Fact is, residents showed up at the CB to oppose this diktator's plan and were ignored by her.

Apparently, the Edge and I are the only two here who actually live in the effected area, have the witnessed the deleterious effects of Sadik-Khan's Diktats, and have a personal knowledge of the Diktator's style.

The other busybodies should get their noses out of my neighborhood and place it in the Diktator's butt, where it more properly belongs.

#20- tl;dr. Maybe apple pie.

#21- Yes, please keep pretending to be above the likes of BH, Snoopy, me, etc.

Please.