NYPD Launches Crackdown Amid Spike in Cyclists Deaths

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by hokoman

I drive to work everyday. Today I almost ran over a cyclist that ran a really late red light. I started into the intersection and he swung all the way to the middle and I missed him by 10 feet.. which sounds like a lot, but it's not... When I was in SF, the little red scooters you could rent always scared me. Now they have that in NY and I can't believe there hasn't been more reported accidents with those. Almost everyone I see is ridden illegally - one guy was jamming down the bike lane on one the other day.. today I saw two girls doubled up without helmets zooming down the street.

I was standing on 15th St and 2nd Ave in Manhattan the other day. I saw a Citi Biker who was headed south in the segregated lane blow through a red light, and a motorist who was headed west on 15th barely missed hitting him. Then I saw the exact same scenario, with another motorist and Citi Biker, about 15 seconds later.

[jet sanchez]

As a person who cycles and drives in Toronto, Uber/Lyft has a lot to do with it, they are very careless and flout the laws of the road constantly.

[thegunner]

i'm sure a bunch of the NYC locals on the forums know this, but you can take down the plate # and report it to 311 -- if you're willing to possibly appear for a hearing (sometimes they'll do it over phone with just a testimony) they'll at least record the incident and also fine them if it's egregious and a repeat occurrence.

i find it's less likely to get me into a bad situation if i simply report it after the fact rather than confront the driver.

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by R3awak3n

This is all a big waste of time, giving tickets for stupid stuff is not going to solve the problem. They need to improve infrastructure, more protected bike lanes...

Like this one?

https://twitter.com/shaneferro/statu...67823697842177

I've been ticketed several times by NYPD for riding in traffic instead of in a "protected" bike lane.

[yinzerniner]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

Like this one?

https://twitter.com/shaneferro/statu...67823697842177

I've been ticketed several times by NYPD for riding in traffic instead of in a "protected" bike lane.

I bike that area minimum four times a week.

My favorite is if you look at the street view, it's pure chaos:
https://goo.gl/maps/1y9UyuhAHLpQBrfk8

Oftentimes I think that "protected" bike lanes aren't the answer, but rather a bigger problem since we live in a completely selfish society where people fight tooth and nail over ownership rights for things they think they're entitled to.

People who walk think they own all the places you can walk. People who drive think they own all the paved areas. People who bike think the bike lane is their own personal superhighway. And god forbid you take any combination of the three and put paint on it with a symbol of a pedestrian, cyclist or car on it - pure bedlam.

In the times I've been in different European countries what always strikes me is the roadways and walkways are used by all, and people don't bat an eye. Walkers get to walk where they want, cyclists get to cycle wherever, and cars go around both once it's safe since they're both faster and heaver. There's mutual respect and empathy for everyone, and the attitude is do what you want unless it seriously impacts me.

[Tony T]

New York Was Supposedly Getting Better for Cyclists. What Happened?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/n...atalities.html

The lanes are often obstructed by parked cars and the police, who have long maintained a skeptical if not hostile disposition toward cyclists, blame them in many cases for crashes that are ultimately the fault of motorists.

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by Tony T

New York Was Supposedly Getting Better for Cyclists. What Happened?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/n...atalities.html

The lanes are often obstructed by parked cars and the police, who have long maintained a skeptical if not hostile disposition toward cyclists, blame them in many cases for crashes that are ultimately the fault of motorists.

Last year, the NYC DOT and Transportation Alternatives (the anti-car organization that fights for segregated lanes in NYC) took credit for the decline in cycling deaths, and attributed it to the increase in segregated bike lanes. Now that cycling deaths have increased, they're saying that the cause is not enough segregated bike lanes. They can't lose.

[fiamme red]

There was a pretty bad crash a block from R&A Cycles yesterday. Fortunately the Citi Biker wasn't killed.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/storie...-07-16-bk.html

Footage from a shop's video camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddaXzYC8LUM.

[BobO]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

There was a pretty bad crash a block from R&A Cycles yesterday. Fortunately the Citi Biker wasn't killed.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/storie...-07-16-bk.html

That's one of those shake your head, what the hell was the cyclist thinking moments. I feel for the driver having to live with that. As an aside, the writing in that piece is awful.

[tctyres]

That's too bad. That area in Brooklyn has a lot of cycle traffic, and at peak times, there are many people on bikes. 5th ave has sharrows the whole way through these blocks.

[trener1]

I'm not surprised, yes it has lots of cycle traffic, it also has lots of trucks making deliveries especially in the morning, lots of double parked cars, and just generally lots of traffic mayhem, made even worse once they built the Barclay Center

[hokoman]

Originally Posted by BobO

That's one of those shake your head, what the hell was the cyclist thinking moments. I feel for the driver having to live with that. As an aside, the writing in that piece is awful.

Wow, that was crazy.... We are going to see a lot more of these types of accidents happen with the Revel electric scooters in the city now.

[johnmdesigner]

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/...nd-dumb-broad/

[johnmdesigner]

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/...-back-on-duty/

[johnmdesigner]

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/...p-riders-safe/