NY Post
With cyclist fatalities on the rise, a City Councilman from Queens wants to blanket Long Island City with protected bike lanes — a proposal that could likely cost the neighborhood hundreds of parking spots.
“We have got to understand that this is about saving lives and we have to act now,” Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer told reporters at the foot of the Pulaski Bridge on Wednesday morning.“We have to prioritize people’s lives over parking spaces and over cars, once and for all in this city.”
Under the proposal developed by Van Bramer and cycling advocates from Transportation Alternatives and Bike New York, Long Island City would be a testing zone for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $58.4 million “Green Wave” plan to increase the number of new protected bike lane miles each year by 50%.
The proposed lanes would go on Skillman Avenue, Jackson Avenue, 11th Street, Center Boulevard, 44th Drive, 46th Avenue, 48th Avenue and Borden Avenue — the street where a driver struck and killed Robert Spencer in March.
Vernon Boulevard’s protected bike lane, meanwhile, which currently ends at 46th Avenue, would be extended south to Borden.
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Since the bikes are getting lanes on the roads at the expense of the cars and parking spaces, can we now require licensing, registration and insurance for all bikes? I think its a fair trade. If you want all the benefits of bike lanes then the bikers should understand responsibility comes along with it. They should pay their fair share towards roadway maintenance. And have insurance in case they hit someone.
Since safety is the goal they should also be supportive of red light cameras in the bike lanes catching any bicycles going thru red lights and sending a fine to the plate on the bike as well.
Streets are too narrow, Looking at that map they would have to take perhaps over 1000 parking spaces.
Sounds more to me like a war against personal car ownership in NYC.
deBlasio and the bastards cant ban car ownership so he is making it impossible to park them.
Riding a bike for recreation should not be taxed.
Stop already with your Krazy licensing, registration and insurance for all bikes !
People ride bikes not Cadillacs for a reasion.
JVB has a car and parks it illegally in sunnyside all the time. Such a hypocrite.
JVB has a car and parks it illegally in sunnyside all the time. Such a hypocrite.
Jimmy Van Bramer = Politician
Politician = Intrinsic liar
Falling for the politician is a honest person fraud in 2019.... LMFAO
If these bikes are jacking our car insurance premiums they need to pay their share for that.
These assholes are getting killed because they cycle like maniacs and don't obey traffic laws. NYC is also not Amsterdam, it has perhaps 10X more car traffic, bigger trucks, more busses and intersections.
""People ride bikes not Cadillacs for a reason""
Yea, so they can cut in and out of lanes, blow stop signs, red lights to beat traffic, save time, as well as flee from the cops. That's the way it is now.
I had one of these messenger sons of bitches grab my door handle and attempt to tow himself. Had he gone under my rear wheels I would have been liable. Bastard then spit at me when I told him fuck off. It ended in a brawl in the middle of the street. I almost got arrested. Lucky a witness in a car behind me stopped and came forward.
I think a more then fare thing do with these bikes and electric motorcycles is after 4 or 6 points of violations make it mandatory they have active insurance & ID plate on the helmet. Riding a bike is a privilege not a right just like motorists.
My trailer requires a $32 a year license registration plate and it not a motor vehicle, so should bicycles.
Riding a bike for recreation
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Who the hell wants to ride a bike for recreation towers and such a high density mess other then currier's and Chinese noodle delivery's?
One has to be nuts or Jimmy Von Bramer, has anybody seen Birdbrain DeBlasio, or any of his team riding a bike in any of the citys bike lanes?
Fine me one pic of any of them
Go to Flushing meadow, Kissina, Douglaston, Ally Pond plenty of other place's for recreational bike riding. What's next water troughs for canoeing and log flume buses.
These dumb, crazy f_cks like deBlasio, Von Bramer need a mental evaluation!
@Joe said... You sound like a typical tax and spend liberal. Keep out of my pocket I ride a bike because I can't afford to drive a car in NYC !
I can't afford to drive a car in NYC !
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That's not others fault or problem.
Unless you are disabled, retarded --Other's should not be paying for your bad decisions in life. Perhaps that stupid useless liberal arts degree in art, music, some useless bullshit nobody will pay you for isn't working out for you. And that's not my problem also.
Go back to the school that promised you the world and get your money back, go ask Cortez for money to pay your dam bills.
Perhaps you got a DWI (or 3) and can not afford $15K for the insurance in which case you deserve what you got even more.
If you can afford lunch or some shitty bike you can afford 8 cents a day for an annual $30 registration fee (non motor vehicle). Oh, and stop howling like a brat millennial. Learn a useful skill people will actually pay you for and make something of your life. Be a productive person and contribute to society.
I'm a plumber and electrician with hardly a high school education. I have 2 vintage Corvettes a house and a truck. Go do some real work and stop crying, the world and myself owe you nothing!
Jesus Christ, some fucking people are too much!!
-Gee
Take your kid toys to the park and play with them. Didn’t momma teach you not play in traffic?? Sheesh!
Many Bike haters here on QC ! What a surprise...
Our city should be doing everything it can to create safe bike routes to schools and to give bike riders places to leave their bikes and scooters once they get there ! This would make life easier for everyone, even the cranky people whose primary concern is how difficult it is to find parking. Keep your hands out of my pockets and leave my bike alone. Read my lips Gino/Joe said..., No New Taxes !
"Gino/Joe said..., No New Taxes"
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Bike registration numbers are a fee so the bikes can be traced, ticketed and insured when they put somebody in the hospital. Act like an asshole loose your privilege on public roads.
Behave and obey the VTL code of conduct and you got nothing to worry about.
An ambulance ride cost over $2500 alone not including ER fees, doctors, x-rays, police overtime, ect. Some poor innocent schmuck pedestrian should not go bankrupt for somebody's else's negligence and stupidity.
Registering wheels has been on the books since the early 19th century for the same reason jackass.
"Bike registration numbers are a fee"
I never registered my bike.
Is there such a requirement ?
"It’s time to reclaim our streets for pedestrians and bicyclists."
"Cars should no longer be “king of the road.”
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson
(NYC's Next Mayor)
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