Bike lanes are nice but from what I’ve seen, they’ve turned into “parking lanes” for vehicles like delivery trucks and double parking cars.

The best is the BK bridge. They finally made the change to put the bike lane in the car lane. Sure it’s narrow, dirtier and less scenic, but the gradient is lower and you don’t have to deal with the oppressive tide of fuckin clowns in the bike lane

Edit: also the road material is better. Wood in rain and snow is begging to assout

Biking isn’t for everyone. It’s great but I accept its generally for people who live closer to urban areas and/or their work places (thereby paying much more for housing which speaks to who that demographic is). There’s just so many people in nyc who have different needs outside of biking (and aren’t on this thread or Reddit for that matter) that just see biking as a complimentary transportation option to a car. Nyc is vast and biking may make sense (rightfully so) for some but certainly not for all.

Yes congestion has increased. I sometimes have to wait two or three bikes back for the light to change.

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bike lanes welcome and needed! A citi bike dock that takes 2 parking spaces adds parking for 20 bikes. It's the only way to keep adding people to the city -- there's not any room for more people to drive around here. The city was laid out long before cars and is best experienced without one

The anti car people are gonna give you the same talking points , cars are bad , it's causing health issues, just bike everywhere, take public transportation, just use Uber or lyft. Reddit will say they are pro bikes Lanez but do not trust reddit opinion as the city consensus. Also it's 8 million ppl not including tourist ( traffic will happen regardless of mode of transportation)

Nyc major issues is that everything transit directs to Manhattan below 125 street and parts of Brooklyn. In my personal opinion I think bike lanes are ok, but with the incoming gentrification people may feel it's to get the poor's out. ( Metro north in co-op city)

Also remember most of those who commute are mostly in two camps, rich ppl from Conn or NJ who refuse to live in nyc or the service workers ( who can't rely on the subway to get from the other Bronx to lower Manhattan all the time) ( we need cbtc since yesterday)

As for the Bronx well they gonna bulldoze all the houses for apartment buildings

Bike lanes are honestly useless without real traffic enforcement!

Yay for bike lanes! Except in midtown where tourists don’t get the concept.

As a car driver, yeah we all hate the bike lanes. A minority of people causing more congestion and demanding changes be made accommodating them are annoying. If you're bitching that hard, move to a different city. You're literally in the most expensive city in the world that's completely run on commuters and service workers. There are basic considerations when you move into the city, like transportation. Why are bikers specifically using an outdated mode of urban transportation? Use subways? Buses? Trains? I thought the tree-hugging bikers want to use more public transportation.

Bike lanes are excellent we need more and we need to widen the ones we have. As long as it's above 20 degrees or so I commute from Rego Park to Midtown on an eBike. The bike lanes and Queens get quite crowded 8-9 months out of the year. But once you get into Manhattan the bike lanes are JAMMED. Just absolutely choked. On the major avenues it's common to have more bikes waiting at the intersection than cars now. Except cars are using 85% of the space and bikes and other micromobility devices get 15%. There's a reason eDevices in particular have absolutely exploded and its because they are the most efficient way to get around the city, even the outer boroughs. My life and schedule in general has be going crosstown a lot so having an eBike is the biggest time saver. But crosstown travel (even though it's more efficient by bike/eDevice than by public transit or car or walking) is where the bike lane network is most sorely lacking. We need a ton more and better infrastructure for non car transportation. Non drivers have always been the majority, but a huge amount of those non drivers are moving to micromobility. More space has to be given to them and pedestrians to improve transportation as a whole.

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We (cars and bikes) have to coexist-though a lot of people here will disagree. Not sure why people feel it has to be all of one or nothing. Different things work for different people and we need to respect it.

Bike lanes are awesome. Cars get free real estate to park on the street and cause congestion. More bike lanes are the future of any modern city. I have driven cars and rode bikes in NY for many many years. EBikes, now that's a different matter all together.

I hate the bike lanes. They weren't needed and are just around to make the city palatable for transplants.

Mosholu Parkway didn't need a bike lane in the road. There's a whole park they could have added one to.

Bike lanes do not cause congestion. They relieve congestion.

Literally the only way to reduce traffic is to provide alternatives to driving to get people out of cars in NYC the main way we do this is the subway, but micromobility is a form of the same idea. Every person you see on a bike or scooter is a person using transportation that is much more space efficient than a car. There are a million regular riders here. Can you imagine if even a small amount switched to cars?

Edit: who is downvoting this? This is exactly how traffic works. Why do you think people say "you're not in traffic, you are traffic." It's because cars are traffic. Reduce cars, reduce traffic. It's pretty basic

I think it is a bit dangerous, especially in congested areas, for pedestrians and for the bikers as some drivers are aggressive and not always watching for bikers when turning.