If you drive a car in NYC then you are selfish and/or lazy.

I have owned and operated a car when I lived in the suburbs, but cars are not necessary in NYC.

When this biking fad ends and people hang them up on the wall next to their rollerblades we're gonna be stuck with these useless canals on every street. Not to worry, just fill them with water for the next new fad - kayaking around NYC. Then all you drivers will see the light!

The bike lanes were sorely needed and are a welcome sight, but Flushing Ave. is still very dangerous--especially at the intersections of Flushing and Williamsburg St. and Flushing and Navy.

Cyclists moving east on Flushing have no really great options for crossing the two lanes of traffic required to get to the north, Williamsburg-bound bike lane; even if you wait for a red light, cars barreling out of the narrow chute of Williamsburg St., many of which show turn signals only as they are in the process of turning (if at all), pose a serious threat. Only a two-way bike lane on the north side of Flushing Ave. would resolve this. I know it isn't happening anytime soon.

Similarly, there isn't really a great way to get from the bike lane on Navy to the new bike lane on Flushing. At present, the only option is to merge into the south-bound lane on Navy and turn east (left) onto Flushing with traffic--which is what I do but feels unsafe. A two-way bike lane on Navy would be the best way to resolve this. I know: no way that's going to happen.

Cars are dying. Bikes are in ascendancy. Call it Travel Darwinism if you like. Have you heard about the oil spill? The Iraq war? The collapse of U.S. automaking? Do you not see a connection to the increase in biking? Seriously? You can get angry about all this and pine for the days of open roads and priority and privilege to all things car-related, but those days are long dead. For very clear reasons, bikes are now a bigger part of your world whether you ride one or just despise the ever-increasing number of those who do. Accept it or drive angry. Either way, the bike lanes ain't leaving us anytime soon.

Wow, I don't think I've heard a more ignorant self-righteous spiel in a while.

Here's an idea why cars are NOT 'dying': try running an economy for a 3+ billion population country without automobiles.

No, you FUCK. You can make cars more "sustainable" or whatever, but you can't ride a bike everywhere. BAD WEATHER, LONG DISTANCES, CARRYING ITEMS, PASSENGERS, ETC.

THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING

Flushing Ave is great news -- this is a huge missing link in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, and provides a connection to the Sands St path to access the Manhattan Bridge.

As a driver, bicycle rider and walker (three things that almost everyone does at some point), the new East Vill lanes are fucking retarded. You NEED places for trucks, for businesses. All these little cul-de-sac bitches think this is their little safe lane, it's dumb. The biggest danger here is for drivers and bike riders because you CANNOT SEE WHEN SOMEONE IS FLYING DOWN THE BIKE LANE IF YOU ARE TURNING ONTO A SIDE STREET. Even if you inch up, it takes one second for a bike to cruise through with the green light. Dangerous as fuck. I hate it when I ride and I hate it when I drive.

"The biggest danger here is for drivers and bike riders because you CANNOT SEE WHEN SOMEONE IS FLYING DOWN THE BIKE LANE IF YOU ARE TURNING ONTO A SIDE STREET."

The DOT needs to install traffic lights in the bike lanes that are red at the same time as the ones for vehicle traffic on the avenues ASAP. Without lights, those bike lanes are deathtraps for bikers. Wake up, DOT!

I like the fact that all the statistics have pointed to safer biking and car traffic as a result of these bike lanes to refute your stupid argument. Fuck everyone who drives every day! Mel gibson was wrong. Jews aren't responsible for all the wars in the world. People who drive cars who are dependent on oil are. People who drive cars should get on their hands and knees for cyclists cause we are the one's who by not using oil allow the price of gas to be so low. Imagine if all the bikers drove? Your gas would cost ten times higher and your commute that much slower so fuck you!

OhMyGod, you fucking self-involved myopic jackass, not everyone in the world occupies your unique petit bourgeois universe. I don't own a car, but I feel morally called to stand up to your self-righteous bullshit, and this is a clarion call to other self-professed bike prophets; you do your ostensibly-just cause, and the good that can come of it, no small harm by blathering on about how we should 'ban cars, and all the world's wars are caused by oil, and you know, what, man? I RIDE A BIKE!'

Enough.

You ride a bike; you're not curing cancer, you're not volunteering at a shelter, and you're certainly not solving the world's energy crisis. You're riding a bike. You're getting from the Plants and Animals show to the graphic novel store. Ride your bike quietly, respectful of pedestrians, vote for people with sensible energy polices, and for gods sake, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT YOUR GODDAMNED BIKES.

I ride a fucking bike too asshole, the fact is it's not practical or possible for long distances, more than one person, or carrying shit. So fuck off you one-sided monster!

While you are biking, a billion people who used to ride bicycles in China are buying cars.

Yep, thanks to the money patrickbateman and all the other self-centered hipsters spent to buy their probably made-in-China bikes.

Of all the bike lane comments on all the bike lane posts, I think this is my favorite.

Yea seriously. Maybe patrickbateman is one of those hipster bike riders just about to go militant in his fight......for more bike lanes.