Hey Snoopy,

Do you want me to drop that delivery off in the morning or afternoon?

Hey Snoopy,

Do you want me to drop that delivery off in the morning or afternoon?

Snoopy is also a moron. Cyclists have been saying that they've needed their own lane for a long time, and they're only going to get more like this.

This just in: Snoopy's a jerk. Oh, we knew that.

That poor SUV driver inconvenienced for 48 seconds while a truck navigated a turn! Grr. The nerve of that truck. In the largest city in North America no one has ANY right to inconvenience the SUV driver! The world stops and starts at the SUV drivers fucking convince!

When the cyclists start delivering a load of 100 sheets of 4' x 10' x 5/8" sheet rock curbside in New York, then they can say "I need my own lane."

I DO NOT BRAKE FOR CYCLISTS!

I could show you video of that exact same thing happening at about 500 other intersections in Manhattan on any given day. Just sayin.

For a long time I lived above Bleecker at West Broadway. Sometime around the early nineties, tour buses headed for Soho started coming down Bleecker Street and making a right turn onto LaGuardia Place. They would get stuck there virtually every light cycle on weekend afternoons. Eventually, the DOT pushed back the stop bar on the northbound lane of LaGuardia place, so cars were waiting further back from the intersection, giving the buses enough room to turn. Problem solved.

I'm not a certified traffic P.E., but it seems pretty obvious to me that this entire situation could be avoided if that one parking space with the red S.U.V was removed. Then the truck could make the turn. No need to remove the entire protected bicycle facility. That's throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

I'm not even going to tackle the idea that maybe we shouldn't be driving giant trucks around small downtown streets. That video still shows 1 huge black pick-up truck, 1 red SUV truck, 1 enormous 50 or 60-foot delivery truck, and the two dark SUV trucks waiting to make the turn. I don't think the rare and meager infrastructure provided for the most efficient and sustainable mode of transportation (cycling) is the problem here.

I am amazed that Sean Sweeney is complaining about traffic noise and congestion, and yet has his sights set on bicycle lanes rather than all these trucks driving through the neighborhood. I mean, really - how much noise does a bicycle make?

Would it really be that difficult to make that last spot on the block a no parking zone w/ a barrier if necessary?

Looks like even that idiot driving the rental truck could have turned onto the block were it not for that one parking space.

Is grand street a SUV parking Lot,

between this vid and the other picture, you'd think it's exclusively SUV owners who use this road.

one issue that is never addressed is the driving test. i don't remember ever seeing a "how to navigate a bike lane" or "how to pass a cyclist"

until it cycling becomes a part of the driving landscape, people will see you as a kid on a bike.

just sayin' change the written test.

I bet he'd love a bike lane on his block. I hope they put one on yours too.

lol@ "thefacts"

"No, Mr. Norvell, the learning curve never is achieved because there are always new drivers entering Grand Street, who must begin to learn."

That's the worst attempt at logic I've read in a while. And I'd fathom a guess that Mr. Norvell doesn't drive, so like most of us, would welcome bike lanes on our blocks.

The spokesman for Transportation Alternatives has the temerity to tell people: "there’s going to be a learning curve for everybody."

No, Mr. Norvell, the learning curve never is achieved because there are always new drivers entering Grand Street, who must begin to learn.

Since, there will always be new drivers entering Grand, so there will always be honking, chaos, confusion and danger.

Those who suffer are not you or your ilk, Mr. Norvell. The suffering is borne by the residents and businesses along Grand Street, who are the tortured guinea pigs in your and DOT's little social experiment.

You want a bike lane, Norvell? Fine, put it on your block, and then you and your family can start talking about 'learning curves'.

That intersection has always been hell, long before the bike lane was put in. West broadway and grand street has a weird bit of one way street below the intersection, so all southbound traffic on west broadway must turn left onto grand. It's always a clusterfuck of cars forced to turn left across the northbound lane. As said in a previous comment, this video proves nothing. If anything, it only shows how bad those small streets are for traffic, most of them should probably be closed to car traffic entirely.

too bad most of the hassidim speak yiddish and not hebrew

In a related story from yesterday's NY Times:

New York City Grew, but Traffic Didn’t

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/14traffic.html

virtually the entire increase in New Yorkers’ means of transportation during those robust years occurred in mass transit, with a surge in subway, bus and commuter rail riders.

That SUV driver should be ticketed. So should all the freakin SUV drivers who park in the bike lanes ALL.THE.TIME! (So sick of these jerkoffs who have some kind of sense of entitlement because they drive a HUGE-ASSED vehicle that was never intended for city driving/parking.)(and don't even get me started on the SUVs double-parking on Court Street in Brooklyn!)

I still see idiots who go the wrong way down one-way streets. How many decades have those streets been around? Let's ban one-way streets!

Every time I think NYC residents are among the smartest people in the USA, I go and read the comments to a Post article and I realize how stupid some of us are.