Sunday afternoon is a great time nap in the car with your motor running, especially in the bike lane just under Bike Lane | Bikes Only and No Standing Anytime signs.

This guy was strategically parked so the bike lane was blocked just enough to prevent passage. While I was taking his picture, a guy in a minivan stopped in heavy traffic -- which caused the cars behind him to start honking -- and began screaming: "He's ****ing parked there every day! What the **** is this guy's problem?" I replied, "I just took his photo, man"; that caused him to repeat his diatribe even louder. Then he took off in a huff. The traffic agent, who had just put a second ticket on this guy's windshield, was halfway down the block. I told her about this and we both started laughing because it was so crazy. What's not so funny is that I observed at least 15 other delivery trucks blocking the bike lanes on Sixth Ave., Eighth Ave., Lafayette Street and Broadway this morning and afternoon ... more than twice the usual number.

on Eighth

I should have also photographed the postal truck I saw in the bike lane on Eighth Avenue outside McDonald's this morning, but I didn't have time.

On Lafayette.

And the rest of the block to boot.

Sitting in front of the No Standing Anytime sign in the bike lane. Three bikers had to swerve past her in the time it took to take this photo. School is across the street.

A familiar story....

Maybe it was because we heard the screech of a car braking and then a crash last night—a biker hit by a car.
Maybe it was because the DOT painted this area GREEN so trucks wouldn't park here that we took this photo today. Examine the photo—a biker could get squashed between this truck and the oil tanker when forced out of this well-marked designated bike lane.
Maybe because it's the holiday season, and we saw that poor kid in shock, and we immediately thought how especially awful it would be if he didn't make it. Fortunately, he was wearing a helmet.
Maybe we were just pissed off that an ambulance still hadn't appeared 15 minutes after we called 911 last night. A fire truck showed up, but no ambulance.
Or maybe just because Tom Cat could have parked a mere 30 feet up the street (and not in the bike lane) that we decided to take the photo this morning. It reminded us of the lack of respect for bicyclists, and sadly how easy it is to mow them down.

Gridlock alert—one of at least one dozen vehicles I saw in the bike lane on Lafayette Street today. One was enough to fill my quota for the day, shown here near the Excellent Dumpling House.

I'd rather not be hit at rush hour. Why not go waste your gas at the curb?

On Bleecker

Even on gloomy December mornings...

The day before it was wreaths. Today it was entire trees and boxes of ornamental shrubbery. International gardens indeed.

This Ja wants to rule the bike lane.

In the bike lane, thanks to TLC.

He has a permit in the window, so bike lane does not exist. Note vehicle's proximity from curb. Ordinary mortals can be ticketed for such infractions.

Just east of Hudson Street on Bleecker.

Parked in the green zone yet again.

Now even the US mail is parking in the bike lane outside Gristede's.

Get out of my lungs and out of my bike lane. Too busy to go to the grocery store? Fresh Direct has hundreds of diesel trucks emitting particulate matter and using thousands of cardboard boxes guaranteed to increase global warming. Maybe you can make it to the grocery store after all.

Sat in the bike lane on Prince for 15 minutes this afternoon.

On this jammed block of East 9th, none of the buses, taxis or other drivers were blocking the bike lane. Only FIDUCIA was, acting out the vanity license plate ("A person who has assumed a special relationship to another person or another person's property, such as a trustee, administrator, executor ...").

To block the bike lane with wreaths? A lump of coal to wreath lady from NJ with van. But thanks to two FreshDirect drivers over the weekend for parking just outside the bike lane in the striped zone and not blocking it.

Funny how No Standing Anytime signs and 100 feet of green paint down the bike lane won't stop them; this driver saw me take his picture and just walked away. By the way, I see the Sysco trucks delivering to Old Homestead Steakhouse all the time—so you're getting the same old industrial foodservice ingredients there you'd get anywhere else in America, just at much higher prices. Buyer beware.

I'd like to ask why so many postal trucks are parking in our bike lanes, especially when they could park in No Standing zones, bus stops or at fire hydrants without endangering the lives of others.

Speaking of post office, Borough President Scott Stringer has a great new bike lane plan for West 33rd Street around the future Moynihan Station / former Main Post Office: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-bike1206,0,6147704.story

A biker was killed by a box truck about 1/2 mile northwest over on Sixth Avenue at the roughly the same time I snapped this photo on Broadway of yet another selfish truck driver parked in a bike lane. Of course, with armored trucks, UPS, and all the other cars and trucks greedily hogging the bike lanes, it's a wonder there aren't more casualties. Aren't the 2,300+ posts of violations on this website enough to convince the City of New York to better enforce its regulations? Hello, ticket blitz? This week also marks the one-year-anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Eric Ng by a drunk driver as he rode his bicycle down the Hudson River bike lane. Rest in peace, gentlemen.

Bicyclist killed after falling in front of truck
BY MELISSA GRACE and TINA MOORE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, December 5th 2007, 2:15 PM
A 63-year-old man bicycling in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning hit a car door and flipped into the street before he was run over and killed by a box truck, police said.
The man, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, was not wearing a helmet, a police source said.
A pool of blood remained in the left-hand lane of 6th Ave. between W. 36 and W. 37th after the accident around 9 a.m.
"He was alive for a few minutes. In fact, he was trying to get up," a female security guard in a nearby office building said.
A police officer at the scene said he talked to the bicyclist right after he was struck.
"At first, he was responsive," the cop said, explaining that the man nodded his head and was responding to basic questions, even providing his name. "He was shaking his head yes. He was bleeding from the head."
A concierge in a nearby building said rescuers tried to resuscitate the man with CPR.
"He was blue, they where trying to resuscitate him all the way into the ambulance," he said.
The Ace Hardware truck that hit the man stayed at the scene. There were no charges, cops said.
The man was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.

There were actually eight vehicles parked in this stretch of bike lane, but I gave up after photographing four of them.

You can leave your "lights on for safety" but you're still parked. You can leave your motor on and waste gallons of taxpayer-paid fuel, but you're still parked. Face it, you are lazy. Here comes a biker up Lafayette Street, and he will have to swerve into traffic to get around you and the UPS truck.

Leave the back doors of your van open, and pretend you are unloading. No matter; you are still parked, and it's still a $115 violation.

I watched you dart in and out of the store, and then leave the vehicle parked in the bike lane. You're wasting gas, and you fool no one by keeping the lights on and motor running. So you couldn't park at the curb because you're too damn lazy?

Packham's van blocking the bike lane in front of Beasty Feasty.

Guy sat there in his huge truck in the bike lane for over 30 minutes asleep with the motor running (see my second pic!). Both on my way up and back down on Sixth I saw cops walk by and not even bat an eyelash. Hello, S.S.C. Carting, your fuel bill is going through the roof.

Check out my second pic that shows this guy is the only scofflaw around. In front of the old Vinyl Mania store. Q: Do these guys go out of their way to park right in front of the No Standing Anytime signs for our cameras?

Stripes painted on Saturday, lane stolen by UPS on Monday.

Lined up like ducks in the bike lane. I was off to work so I didn't have the time to photograph them all.

He had two handtrucks, one on the sidewalk (in photo) and the other a flatbed one sitting in the bike lane full of packages. I asked him if he could please put it on the sidewalk instead of blocking the bike lane with it, that's when I saw he also was blocking the bike lane with his truck. I said it would be nice if I didn't get hit by a car today and could he please do this. Then I left without taking his photo because I didn't want a confrontation.

Did you ever try to bike around the East Village on a Saturday night? It's a mess, with cars flooding the bike lanes on Second Ave and East 9th and 10th Streets. Here are just two examples. Just because it's Saturday night doesn't mean the bikers suddenly disappear or lose their rights to safe car-free lanes.

I didn't even know East 2nd Street between Bowery and Second Ave had a bike lane! But since it's there and so was he, here's the photo.

Just 'cause you print it on your truck doesn't mean it is so. Tow truck parked with a taxi attached in back.

In the bike lane.