They illegally park wherever. Block sidewalks. Block bike lanes. Block Crosswalks. Double-park.
Imagine I opened a store selling…I don’t know…chairs. Then I put out chairs
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on 4 or 5 blocks all around my store!!
Jfc, why does the bike lane cross the street like that? It looks super unsafe
More like, why does the street cross the bike lane like that.
Fair enough. But the planners of this road must have a burning hatred of cyclists.
Can’t speak for this street, may just be poor planning, but sometimes you have to work within the limits of budget or the location you’re working with.
It could be something less obvious, like utilities running shallow alongside the road and without the budget to move those, or the bike lane was added after the streets were in place.Usually bike lanes are tacked on as a “can we shut them up without making too many changes”
It seems like thoughtfully designed and implemented bike lanes are the exception to the rule
Just roll down with a can of spray paint
Would sure be a shame if a pedestrian with a stroller or wagon walking down the sidewalk accidentally scratched the fuck out of them
This is a protest by those car dealerships against that bike lane. The bike lane is less than 10 years old and was hard-fought for by the de Blasio administration against the dealerships in this section of queens. After the lane went in the dealerships started parking their cars on the public sidewalks and encroaching into the bike lane as much as they could just to be assholes. The cops of course cannot be convinced to do jack shit about it.
To be fair, thats more a bylaw officer problem than a cop problem, at least thats how it would work in my area.
Parking enforcement used to be seperate from NYPD but was subsumed around the late 80s / early 90s. Some US cities still do it that way though, I live in Portland these days and parking enforcement here falls under the bureau of transportation.
Smash all the windows. I mean if enough people do it…
Wild.
The city where I live employs private tow truck operators to remove cars illegally parked. They swoop in like vulchers and take cars away within minutes.
Hefty fine to get it back too.
You can’t talk about cars in NYC without talking about Robert Moses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
He was head of dozens of government offices and manipulated the entire tri-state area for decades.
He hated any form of mass transit. He made sure that the bridges on the Long Island Expressway were too low for buses.
FWIW I believe Queens Boulevard is one of the rare automotive cesspits of NYC that actually wasn’t a Moses project. He did have a plan to make it even worse by turning it into an expressway, but never got around to it.
Should cut down a safety window breaker to be glued onto the knuckles of a bike glove and just… roll down the street popping windows.
Normally I would say just ticket all those poorly-parked cars and raise a buttload of revenue for the city…but in the capitalist hellscape we find ourselves in the car dealership would just give a donation (or threaten to withhold one) from some elected official and the tickets would “magically” disappear.
Oops I fell and broke a mirror off After a few missing mirrors they might reconsider.
Where i live there is a similar stretch of bike path. Ours however has car repair shops on one side of the path snd they use the other side for car fixing. I’ve almost been doored 3 times in that stretch and every day i dodge people who jump out from behind cars like they’re ninjas.
That could be a lot of flat tires and broken windows if any random person had the will to do it.
Just start keying the shit out of these cars.
Oops, I accidentally left the grip off of the side of my handlebars.
This is the way
That merge point with the bike lane crossing the street has me sketched out. Merging vehicles trying to see past all the parked cars for oncoming traffic, bikes coming up parallel to cross, from behind traffic’s blind spot. Tragedy just waiting to happen.
My hometown has a kenworth plant
Kenworth has a bad habit of putting huge parking lots for their truck everywhere they can, and then leaving them unattended for months on end.
Kenworth learned the hard way that they need to keep better control over where they leave their shit, otherwise people who have a reason to hate them (which is a lot of people around there) might fuck with their trucks and cause millions in damages.
Holy shit that’s bad. And I thought it was wasteful when some car-stores popped up close-by me in a mid-sized Finnish city, and what they built on was unused fields before. Still I can’t understand how it’s profitable to rent that much, surely people aren’t buying cars that often. But I guess it has to be profitable, since we’re in capitalism.
Just how is a mystery to me.
Also your bike-infra kinda sucks. I’m happy to see it exists, but… for your sake I’d hope it’d be improved. Like maybe set up lights for the bike crossing so you don’t have to rely on people’s good will not to get driven over.
To be fair, the bike lane is better than 99.9999% of America’s biking infrastructure, so… it’s not get too picky here.
That’s a very low bar.
All of NYC is like this. Cops, MAGA trucks, dealerships, delivery trucks- fucking everyone parks on the sidewalk
Sorry to hear that
