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A team of twenty brave (or crazy) cyclists recently took part in a nighttime group ride along Queens Boulevard, that twelve-lane traffic artery affectionately known as the Boulevard of Death. Wearing reflective vests with "Share the Road" printed on the back, the so-called "bike pool" gathers monthly to remind drivers that cyclists also use the dangerous boulevard, where 22-year-old Asif Rahman, a photographer and aspiring hip-hop artist, was killed by a truck earlier this year. The Times tagged along with the cyclists, who are calling for a bike lane on the boulevard. Queens Councilman James Gennaro agrees it could accommodate one with minimal impact on traffic, but the DOT has no plans to install it. As Alex Vasiliev, a 66-year-old Ukranian livery cab driver puts it, "Bicycles need a lane, but cars do not need bicycle lane."
Queens Blvd Bike Lane? Cyclists Say Yes, DOT Says No
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Bikes should not be allowed on Queens Blvd.
End of story
You wanna kill yourself
Go jump off the Kennedy Bridge
Even with a bike lane, you'd be a maniac to ride a bike along that road.
I've biked down Queens Blvd. many times before. It's really not that bad, but then I actually follow the traffic lights there.
In fact, I feel less safe biking down Roosevelt Avenue simply because it's so damn narrow. I've almost been doored by livery cabs there and then you have large groups of people jaywalking even when I have the right of way. Not to mention people who just walk out into the street out of nowhere.
Queens Blvd really wasn't the most dangerous street to bike, that'd probably be between 6th & 8th aves in Manhattan or around the Atlantic/Pacific area in Downtown brooklyn.
Biking Queens Blvd. is relatively easy, straight through to Queens Plaza/Queensbridge; the street is suicide for pedestrians, however.
You're out of your fucking mind if you willing ride a bike on that thoroughfare, lane or not.
Seriously, fucking batso.
Here's an idea: let's try to go a year without killing a pedestrian on the road before we go altering traffic patterns that would *put* pedestrians on two rolling wheels with no covering.
Queens Blvd isn't that dangerous to ride on if you know what you're doing - eventually things should be done to make it safer for less experienced riders though.
Because fencing off one of it's lanes for bicyclists or—gasp, bus rapid transit— is outrageous...outrageous I tells ya!!
why not add more stop signs on the side-streets?
Of course, DOT and its Diktator, Sadik-Khan, do not want a bike lane here, because it makes sense and would please most people.
For the longest time, I thought Queens Blvd would make a great place for a bike lane. It is very wide and traverses much of the length of the borough. Its width is dangerous for pedestrians but its width benefits cyclists - room for a bike lane.
Not the main roadway, but the service road, which seemingly is where this group was riding.
Watch these DOT dummies suggest some quiet, narrow sidestreet in Queens, which would pit the NIMBYs against the Spandex Nazis, and no one would be pleased, except the autocrats at DOT who still would be collecting bloated salaries and benefits, and their Czar, Sadik-Khan, posing for furhter photo ops to show off the spandex pants that she wears under her skirt. Phew!!
FYI what those 'nazi's wear is Lycra, not spandex.
FYI, Lycra is Dupont's brand name for spandex, like Dolphin is HEMC's brand name for douchebag.
The composition is actually quite different. Just like you're quite a moron.
You two are arguing about spandex?
Now that's just gay.
Did you become scared of gay people when your father pissed in your mouth?
Way to pull that one out of your ass.
Although I'm sure it's not the only thing that's been pulled out of there.
Keep trying, Liam.
Trying what? You make yourself out as enough of an asshole without my help.
I'm sure the hardest thing about wearing spandex for you was telling your parents about it.
Uh...