MyBikeLane

My how much gas you are guzzling in my bike lane, TLC! Good thing our mayor will force you to go hybrid soon and abandon your nasty polluting unpatriotic monster vehicle.

Waiting for the super-rich to finish buying their overpriced antiques and rugs, livery drivers constantly clog the bike lane in front of ABC.

It's amazing how easy it is to find these cars in the bike lane right at the Bike Lane signs. The drivers sit in their cars, motors idling, talking on their cell phones, watching the bikers try to dart around them without getting killed. Same story every day on this stretch of Broadway. Of course if you were to bother to confront a driver, you'd just get an earful of "@%^* you" or "I was just about to move."

Hanging out in the bike lane in front of ABC. Same story every day.

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.

If he'd parked at the curb, the mattresses could have been more easily loaded. Clickthrough for second photo.

He watched what I was doing, and decided to take off when I whipped out the camera. Funny how I spotted him doing this exactly two weeks ago at a similar time in the afternoon just one block over on Fifth Ave.

We are a nation at war so jackals like this can burn excessive fuel while illegally sitting with engines running in the bike lane, preventing those who want to save the environment from safely riding their bicycles. Oh the hypocrisy of our collective existence....

And parks in bike lane.

Does your Consul General or Ambassador know that this is a ticketable offense?

What is it with BMW drivers?