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Hard to get but worth the hassle
Observed by andygee on Mon, Sep 17 2007
It's impossible to get something like this unless you ride with a camera cocked and ready; even with a helmetcam it's never pointing the right way. Transalt is right; without signage the whole bikelane idea is worthless. There is a stop line before the intersection with the greenway and a double yellow line on the greenway, which according to my drivers' test means "main road." Yet here is this guy sitting in the middle (tried to pull out when he saw me taking a picture, but of course put the West Street car traffic in danger. We really need more signs like "stop HERE" and "leave intersection clear" and "don't turn across parallel road with approaching traffic."
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Posted on Tue, Sep 18 2007 at 12:54 AM
I can't imagine how he ended up here. Maybe he was driving down the greenway, then was confronted with the plastic bollards seen just to his right in the photo, then as he tried to figure out what to do, there was you and your camera and he panicked. Good thing no one got hurt.
Posted on Tue, Sep 18 2007 at 09:05 PM
This is a driveway leaving the ferry terminal; that's how he got here. He should have waited at the red light further back and not have sat in the greenway.
Posted on Sat, Sep 22 2007 at 11:34 PM
I had another one of these today; a Jersey SUV, superior-people couple, ditz blonde wife driving. I was approaching the green bicycle signal and I saw she looked confused but I didn't expect her to keep driving into my path. Knock, knock on the window with an "Is she blind?" resulted in an "Omigod we are soooo sorry" as I pointed out the crosswalk, stop line, and double yellow line they had to cross against the red signal. We shouldn't have to educate drivers ourselves; there should be signs for these things. Koch was really good at signs, like "don't even think of parking here." What do we get now? "Times Square Shuffle," that's what we get. Bring Koch back for bike route signage.
Posted on Sun, Sep 23 2007 at 03:58 PM
I think another contributing factor to bad driving near the greenway is that West St unfortunately feels and looks like a highway (and is even erroneously referred to one), so drivers treat the driveways as entrance/exit ramps.
Posted on Sun, Sep 23 2007 at 04:00 PM
Signage is ok, but it only works if the driver pays attention. What really modifies driver behavior is engineering changes. Traffic calming and the like is self-enforcing.