Memo to Marty:

I know you're not paid to think. I know all the money from Ratner, et. al. is
in a Cayman Islands account. You SHOULD be OK. But let's face facts: you're only a borough
president and very expendable. Now is not the time to start thinking you're smarter than your puppet-masters.
Do you
really want to risk a perjury conviction?
Because I don't think you're the kind of guy that will enjoy being someone's prison bitch. Toodles.

Enough with the worthless borough presidents. They have no real power. Just eliminate the positions already, especially now when the city's budget is tight.

First Marty wants to steal a public park to build a amphitheater with his name on it, that no one wants and now this. Marty is a disgrace and should be kicked out of office.

Markowitz and his merry band of privileged rich people with too much time on their hands should have to pay back the city for all the hours lost to this frivolous lawsuit, from the courts to the DOT.

Then again, that was Weinshall & Co's plan all along: make life miserable for Janette Sadik Khan and her department. Weinshall was smart enough to know how pointless this lawsuit was.

What's funny is that Marty Mark probably thinks this is a legitimate issue. Oh well, that's the life of a powerless borough president. He'll be out of all of our lives soon enough.

Then again, that was Weinshall & Co's plan all along: make life miserable for Janette Sadik Khan and her department. Weinshall was smart enough to know how pointless this lawsuit was.

There are so many areas of the city that could (1) benefit from the traffic calming effect of bike lanes (think of short spurts where cars can go fast for like 3 lights, only to stop at the red, but, if you're a biker, you get horns and aggression at your back, only to pass those guys 10 seconds later.  Those are prime candidate because the cars don't actually save time as is) (2) improve the network linkages of the bike lane network.

But, instead, we've got a gun-shy DoT because some connected richies going hard core NIMBY on a successful bike lanes. 

Way to fuck over the future Brooklyn Pols.  We've got billions for roads, highways, expansion, all that shit.  But try to splash some paint for bikers, and all of a sudden, it's a war on cars.  Meanwhile, the war on pedestrians continues at full pace, like this lady who lost her leg this afternoon: http://www.streetsblog.org/201... 

The lady may have lost her leg, but, the driver, I'm sure, won't lose any liberty over it.  

Well said Natty and bg.

Thank you for clarifying what is also my rant.

There is no way that a trial project wouldn't be clearly marked as such. What an absurd affront to people who actually have real reasons to be heard in court.

When I first moved to Brooklyn I though Markowitz was a really great guy but then I bought a bike and found out he was an idiot. I personally ride on the PPW bike lane twice a day almost every week day and I have not seen any issues other then people jaywalking through it and not using the marked crossings. I've never seen any ill effect on cars or any sort of gridlock or backup. If the bike lane wasn't there it would mean a much longer or more dangerous commute because as those ladies have failed to realize traffic in the park only moves counter clockwise while the bike lane is both ways.

how 'bout you ride your precious little huffy IN THE PARK? after all, you filthy liberal douches have lobbied to eliminate automobile traffic from the park, so start using it and give the streets back to normal people who drive cars, upon roads, that were built for...cars to drive upon. 

There is almost no reason to own a car if you live in and work in the city and most "normal people" don't. I had no idea it was douchey to want to be healthy, not contribute to pollution, and enjoy exercise. I'm sorry to inform you that roads were not built specifically for cars as roads predate cars by thousands of years and in pretty much every state and country bicycles are permitted to use them. Also cars are permitted in the park twice a day during rush hour. 

wrong. the great build up in US roads was in order to facilitate automobile traffic. and, you are correct, you are already permitted to utilize existing traffic lanes, and as such, dedicated bicycle lanes are unnecessary. your precious huffy was likely made in china, the world biggest industrial polluter, and then shipped here by ship or plane, burning far more fossil fuel than you will every save peddling your way to hippie nirvana. 
actually, it would seem that segregating bicycle traffic from automobile traffic is a step backward, as isn't the liberal douche mantra that all are equal and deserving of equal treatment? so the creation of a bicycle only lane is either discriminatory against the bicyclists, prohibiting them from use of and access to something others are permitted to use, the existing traffic lanes, or against the automobile traffic, since they pay vehicle registration fees to maintain the roads that they are now not permitted to access. hmmm...since bicyclists are using roads, they should be paying a registration fee as well. and carry insurance. 

in the meantime, please ride your fruity little barbie bike off the end of a pier and reduce your carbon footprint.

Were not talking about the US highway system, were talking about the streets that have existed in some form or another in New York for hundreds of years. Where do you think your car was made? My bicycle was probably made at a similar factory as your car, except it has significantly fewer parts, less metal, almost no plastics, 7 welds, and releases 0 pollution when I ride it. It's been show that the energy and resources used to build 1 average car could build over 100 bicycles. Bicycles are allowed to use the car lane if need be even if there is a bike lane and I agree bicycles lanes should not be necessary but because people don't seem to know how to drive around cyclists they are for now a necessary evil. Do you really think your paltry vehicle registration fee pays for the roads? You pay registration so the state can maintain a database of all the cars. OUR state/city tax money as well as federal tax money goes to keeping up our roads, so I already pay for the privilege  Also in some countries where they charge a per mile tax on vehicles they've found that it's not even worth charging bicycles because they make so little impact on the quality of the road and it would cost more to send them bills than their taxes they would have to pay. 

I don't know why you hate cyclists so much, on my 22 miles round trip ride there is only 1 block where cars couldn't pass me if they wanted to and usually its pretty gridlocked so I'm not holding anyone up. I'm no hippie, never been called one other than by idiots, love to eat meat and buy electronics and think spirituality is crap. I'm just a person who enjoys riding to work because I hate the packed subways and if I ride my bike to and from work I save an hour a day because I don't have to workout after work. I just wish it wasn't so dangerous trying to get to work sometimes, and I'm someone who never runs red lights or goes the wrong way. The issue is people like you, people who are too good for the subway and instead choose to add more traffic to an already crowded city when their commute to work is only a couple miles. People like you who hate bicycles for no reason other than they might make you wait 20 seconds every so often. It seems that to people like you not following traffic law and driving like an idiot has become the norm and therefore bicycles on the road are a danger because if you hit a car being an idiot it gets a dent, if you hit a cyclists they can get killed. 

 it's not REALLY about any of those things.  the bike lane makes it harder for the rich co-op owners to double park in front of their buildings to load/unload. 

Papers "obtained" by the Post or sent to them by Linda Gross PR and attorney Jim Walden?  Don't give the Post that much credit.  What they might call "investigative journalism" others call "copying and pasting a press release."

It's amazing the lengths some people will go to try to remove a freaking bike lane.  A heavily used and popular bike lane at that.  

It's really more than just a bike lane.  it's a street redesign that has significantly reduced wide spread speeding.  The redesign saves lives.

It's so much nicer to drive down PPW now that everyone goes 30 mph (because that's how the lights are synced) instead of getting honked at by cabbies going 45-50 mph and then slamming on their brakes to drop off a fair.