Violations tagged as design_flaw were caught parked in a bike lane in New York 1 time
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photo op or greenway?
hutchinson river parkway, New york, NY
Here is a design flaw in the Hutchinson River (not actually a river) Greenway; more dangerous than any car parked in a bike lane and more useful as a political photo-op than as transportation. There are four heavy-duty cross-overs along this 2-mile mini-greenway. This one and its twin, the cross-over from the other side of the road back to this one, desperately need more car traffic control. Usually the way things work in NYC is that someone gets killed before proper signage or a traffic light gets put up. (My greenway entrance, Avenue C and the FDR, now has four stop signs and two flashing red lights, up from one stop sign when it opened.) Bikes have to go up a steep incline and make a 90 degree turn, shedding all of their momentum. Cars just whiz by with little advance visibility of crossing bikes. This is dangerous and inefficient; it's no wonder I've never actually seen anyone else actually riding a bike on it.
Sadly, there are now tens of thousands of people recently arrived in sub-Bruckner Bronx, in new town house condos, vastly underserved by public transportation, tied to cars, and stuck in exploding sub-prime mortgages, mostly working in Manhattan. A real bike transportation plan connecting the Hutch, the BRP, and the Bruckner to the Triboro Bridge could solve an awful lot of problems for an awful lot of people.
