i am a sad panda that this has not gotten quite the amount of comments a bicycle x cars x pedestrians would normally get. wonder why.. (no, not really lol).

People tire of such venomous commentary.

This just smacks of an editing job with an obvious slant.  It shows asshole cyclists, idiot pedestrians, AND likely NJ drivers doing some pretty wrong things.  But like IvoryJive said...the creator complains about this being related to the expansion of bike lines and a) this intersection doesn't have one and b) features bikers who probably wouldn't use it anyway.

I sure hope the video doesn't get any traction because it's a misleading pile of garbage.

This whole video is terrible. I would like to point out that absolutely NO ONE was hurt in the footage and I doubt that anyone was even majorly perturbed at what might seem like narrowly avoided problems. The only people who might find ANY of the behavior caught in tape offensive (or even remotely frightening) should be people who don't live here! The red blinking lights are MERELY proximity indications and NOT problem indicators. Listen up good people of NYC. There are MIllions of us packed into a tiny grid all tryin ta get where we gotta go. Eyes up, lookin' around, payin' attention: All can do's. The text at the end too... Totally misleading. It should say: Hay wasn't that cool? You just saw a perfectly coordinated organism functioning at a very high level. A shit ton of potential collisions and only ONE that is verifiable (the truck making a u-ie) isn't that sweet? Well, 'round here we call that NORMAL.

NEED MORE EXPLOSIONS.  THINGS GO BOOM

LESS QQ MORE PEWPEW

You type dumb.

So.. you'd rather see a video with people getting plowed over by cyclists and cars? Hmmmmmmmm?

I have no idea how you can infer that from my comment.

Only re-affirms what the majority of pedestrians deal with on a daily basis and my lack of sympathy for fellow cyclists who on the whole ride like jerks

People are just now realizing cyclists drive like maniacs? You must be on your bikes too much and not cross the streets with the pedestrians.

Cyclists "ride"  Automobilists "drive."

You call this a traffic problem? Six billion people around the world are laughing at you right now. 

Fun to watch but the most important information -- are the lights green or red? -- is missing. I definitely saw some cars doing (what appears to be) the "speed up through the just-turned-red light" maneuver, it's kind of a characteristic pattern. Those cars are almost certainly, if this intersection is like every other one I've ever crossed, the biggest source of peril to life and limb.

Picking an intersection of two streets with no cycling facilities and then selectively editing hours of footage to highlight basically only cyclist infractions doesn't really make a compelling statement about anything. The project posits that "the expansion of bike lanes exposed a clash of long-standing bad habits", but the case study is a street with no bike lanes? I could take a video of a group of subway turnstiles and edit the footage to show only the people jumping them and then lots of folks without thinking could conclude that subway riders are lawless deviants, but that isn't really telling the whole story is it? What this project should have done is a continuous time lapse counting all vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians, and counting all observed infractions. Then you would know the rates of different kinds of violations by different kinds of street users, if that's what you really want to compare and analyze. But this montage, mostly of bad cyclist behavior, just adds fuel to those with negative feelings about cycling.

Your tears.. they give me strength.

Definitely added to my already negative feelings about cyclists. Would be nice to see tickets handed out for all the infractions at this intersection no matter how many hours it took to compile.

With you on that one. All the jerks in this video should be forking over fistfuls of cash for this behavior.

this footage must be pretty old. That parking lot has been closed for quite a while. 

There needs to be more brackets around the people NOT standing on the sidewalk. I'm not defending any of the asshelmet cyclists in the video (for the record, I don't ride like that) or the overly-aggressive drivers, but I find that way too many pedestrians think they're invisible. Stand on the sidewalk — not in the road — there are way too many distractions in NYC already without making yourself a target.