NYPD Puts New Windsor Terrace Bike Lane to Good Use

Park Circle in Windsor Terrace

It's a shame to see a perfectly pristine bike lane go to waste without anybody parking in it, so kudos to the NYPD for setting a fine example in Windsor Terrace, where the DOT recently added a green bike lane to the rotary at the Southwest corner of Prospect Park. The tipster who took this photo tells us "the trucks have been there about a month, since before the 1st big snow storm." Of course, this isn't the first time the NYPD's turned bike lanes into parking lots, and we suspect it won't be the last. The familiar sight goes a long way toward explaining why civilian motorists throughout the city routinely block bike lanes without fear of punishment. "With one hand the City giveth, with the other, it taketh away," says Wiley Norvell, spokesman for Transportation Alternatives. "This brazen illegal parking throws cyclists into moving traffic lanes, to say nothing of undercutting the City's efforts to make Park Circle safer."

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By John Del Signore in News on February 22, 2010 2:30 PM

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BongoBoy

Wahhhhhhhh! I can't ride my trike with the sparkly streamers on the bright green bike lane! Waaahhhh! Call the mayor, call the governor, CALL MY MOMMY!

ckl

hasn't that part been covered with snow and ice until, like, the last 24 hours anyway?

thefacts

I guess the cops treat the cyclists with the same respect cyclists treat pedestrians.

Cyclists: Give it up. Get real. NY ain't Amsterdam. This nonsense will never be taken seriously by Gothamites. We learned to ride on the street, and so should you. If you want to ride without fear, return to your cul-de-sac in the burbs.

yttrx

1. The best way to identify yourself instantly to natives as a foreigner is to call yourself a "gothamite".

2. No one suggested riding without fear. What was suggested was simply that the NYPD park their shit where it's not in the fucking way.

3. GO BACK TO JERSEY

Liam

I grew up here and if one of my friends called themselves a gothamite I would probably not be friends with them.

imadick

you're better than the rest of us because you grew up here. pat yourself on the back.

Liam

Nope, just relevant.

yttrx

Actually I think hes probably right about that.

hard times

you mean we park our bikes in the crosswalk, blocking everyone and forcing them into the paths of cars who [rightfully] don't expect them to be there?

crabbapple

"I guess the cops treat the cyclists with the same respect cyclists treat pedestrians" nice generalizing there buddy. All cyclists, like all cops, are not the same. But, as long as a cop will give a cyclist a summons for sidewalk riding/ running a red light/ not having proper lights, they should be sure that they themselves are not blatantly breaking laws to avoid being generalized as corrupt hypocrites.

"NY ain't Amsterdam"--good point, New York is bigger and busier than Amsterdam, even more reason to modernize and improve the planning of roadways in NY to accommodate more commuters smoothly, weather they are in trains, cars, feet, or two wheels.

JGNY

your tipster is sort of correct. The trucks have been there forever, the bike lane was painted there about a month ago. Either way the NYPD should move these; besides being a pain to bike around they are also unsightly.