Don't go through a red light on a bike when a cop is there. Duh.

Time spent alone on a bicycle is very rewarding.

All the hate on us cyclists. Riding a bicycle is the best!

Dude up top said Grand Prix. lol.......that law sux.

Transportation Alternatives is doing a good job of organizing a group of voting people who would otherwise probably be against opening up new revenue streams for the city to abuse, ie. congestion pricing.

I love my bikes... I don't appreciate them being used for politics.

I take walking groups into Central Park frequently. I studiously make sure my clients wait for the light.(I have to--I have liability issues.) Way too often, some cyclist comes zooming through, not even slowing down, usually cursing at me and my clients to boot. It's not just a disregard for the law, it's CONTEMPT. If cyclists don't clean up their act, they will lose their privileges.

For a disgusting example of how cavalier cyclists are about the rules, watch this: (advance to the 3:19 mark)
http://www.streetfilms.org/bik...

Yeah, but if you skip to 3:19 right away you miss the people walking in the bike lane at 0:10 and jaywalking at 1:50 (across the bike lane). Are you for the pedestrians cleaning up their act as well?

And I think you missed the point of the video. His point is that, yes, he goes through red lights but always yields to pedestrians and cars.

More neurotic, blind and ridiculous government. Sounds like the personal work of law and order Bloomberg, who hasn't ridden his bike long enough to wake up to reality. This is a scam to ticket bikers and some people think driving is the only way to get a ticket in New York City.

Riding a bike in the city was a pretty low profile thing to do not long ago. You could ride almost anyplace and nobody gave a crap unless you were endangering others.
Then the pro-bike (and anti-everybody else) lobby started making more any more noise. They wanted respect. They wanted a dedicated part of the roads built just for them. They wanted attention.
Well, you got it. So now all eyes are on you. Follow the damn rules, or lobby for them to change. Is that so hard? If you don't think the lights need to cycle through completely during certain hours, I can get behind that... But if you act like you don't need to follow the rules, you are going to continue to be looked at with contempt.
You brought this on yourself guys.

You have to really love the laziness of the NYPD. I was getting all worried when I heard of this "crackdown", thinking to myself "man why do they have to ruin everything in NYC?". Then it dawned on me...the NYPD is too fucking lazy to actually come after us on the streets, they know we're hard to catch in heavy traffic, so instead they go and jump on the unsuspecting (and innocent) riders in the park...so what's the solution here? DONT RIDE IN THE PARK!

I used to like riding in the park because I wouldn't have to stop at a light every 2 blocks, but this shit is ridiculous. I can watch out for jaywalkers so that I don't hit them, and I can yield to proper pedestrians when they have the right of way. No need for these $270 tickets unless we start treating the speeding cars and jaywalkers in the park the same.

In light of the fact that cyclists are about the only thing standing between New York and a century of powerful butt fuckings from sea level rise, you'd think they'd be doing more to accommodate us.

I'll just circumvent this by getting off my bike at each red and carrying it over the crosswalk. Then I'll tell the cops to go fuck themselves.

to add: and ride away.

hahah

Sounds like "calming," the cyclist lobby should love it!

I know it would be expensive but if they just installed raised crosswalks/speed tables and had all the lights flash yellow then you could force drivers and bicyclists to slow down and visually "guide" pedestrians to cross at crosswalks rather than wherever they want.

Instead of NIMBY, maybe it is NOMBY (Not On My Bike Yo)

How many people here actually ride in the park? During car free hours in the middle of the day the park drive is pretty uncluttered, especially in the winter. Even in the summer during the middle of each week day there really aren't that many people. Weekends are crowded, but that isn't the focus of this enforcement effort.

I ride in the park nearly every day, and cyclists are now THE ONLY ONES stopping at red lights. Pedestrians don't stop. Joggers running in the jogging lane of the park drive don't stop. Cars (park employees, police cars, city government limos, utility trucks, all of the vehicles allowed into the park during non-car hours) don't stop.

I think changing the lights to flashing yellow in both directions during car free hours is a good idea. Then everyone knows that caution is required at the intersections. As it is, pedestrians don't know what green & red mean in the park. If a pedestrian comes to a red light and there is no traffic, are they allowed to cross or do they have to wait, like the cyclists? What if their misjudgment of the traffic puts them unavoidably in the path of a cyclist traveling legally through the intersection on the green light? Yellow both ways says that everyone has to be cautious all the time and not guess at what red & green might mean.

The stretch of park drive from 6th Ave. to E72nd has cars all day every weekday. For tourists or people who are not familiar with this rule, including cyclists, this is a dangerous surprise. I have seen more than a few near misses. If the city were really concerned with safety they would make the entire drive car free during car free hours, not just 3/4ths of it.

>Even in the summer during the middle of each week day there really aren't that many people.

Do we go to the same Central Park? Weekdays, especially in the summer, are PACKED with cyclists.

Maybe not. I usually ride between 10AM and 2PM weekdays all summer long, and I don't think I would ever describe the park as packed. There are more cyclists in the park in the summer and the south-west corner near Columbus Circle is congested due to bicycle rentals, but while the rest of the park might qualify as busy it isn't packed. Then again, some cyclists in the park are not used to or comfortable with riding near other cyclists, so I could see perhaps how perceptions might differ.