Quote Originally Posted by ccnyc View Post
As a cycling Manhattanite I'm not surprised at Bloomberg's comments. He basically hates cyclists (at least since the Republican convention in NYC). BTW, bad weather is not much of an issue here. He's out of his mind!!!
There are some bike lanes in Manhattan but they usually have double parked cars, trucks and police cars in them. Also, there is no enforcement of the bike lanes which makes them kind of useless. And they are few and far between. There is no bike lane I can use to get up to Central Park (and out of the city) from my apt without riding in crazy traffic first. Fortunately, the new head of the NYCDOT is an avid cyclist herself (Janette Sadik-Kahn) and is looking into bike lanes separated from moving traffic. Probably won't happen in my lifetime though.

Carol

Sorry Carol. Since you bike through the city and I don't you probably know better than I. I can only tell by what I see in the small area of a very large city. I compare it with Long Island that has nothing, only regular shoulders on the road that cars are also parked in and at least on the South Shore, not one Share the Road sign or any sign showing that bicycles belong, despite my numerous letters to officials. (although, I still continue to try, there is always another person in the line to write to )

Tulip, thanks, I will check it out.



~ JoAnn