MyBikeLane

One ticket for one greedy Honda SUV owner parked right in front of a No Standing Anytime sign in the bike lane green zone on lower Ninth Avenue.

Three selfish pigs—the usual truck driver parked in the bike lane, plus a private garbage hauler and a limo—all of whom want to chill out in the No Standing Anytime green zone of the lower Ninth Avenue bike lane. What a pathetic situation—honking and yelling over who has the right to a spot that no one has a right to occupy. Just after taking these photos, a NYPD traffic van came by. I spoke to one of the four occupants, whose sole response was, "Thank you for telling me this" as they sped away without issuing violations. Thus the three little pigs continued to hog two out of three lanes and block rush hour traffic. Note the garbage hauler waving his arms while standing directly under the No Standing Anytime sign!

One of numerous trucks illegally parked in the bike lanegreen zone on lower Ninth Avenue, it's pathetic that one of NYC's most expensive steakhouses uses the same industrial-grade ingredients as diners and greasy spoons. And even sadder that bikers are forced out of their lane by this SYSCO truck whose driver is too lazy to park 30 feet up the street outside the bike lane.

Too lazy to park 20 feet further up the street in a normal spot that wouldn't endanger the lives of bicycle commuters. Too selfish to even park at the curb.

Same scene, one month later -- has any cop or traffic agent written them a violation in the past 30 days at this location? These guys don't bother to park 30 feet up the street in a safe zone because they never get any tickets.
http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/3538
http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/3766

Maybe if we post a dozen more of this guy's violations he might actually get a ticket?

Since you're blocking the bike lane and the sidewalk, why not just take up the whole sidewalk while you're at it?

A rather egregious violation on Bleecker Street -- the truck's delivery door is opened right up to the deli. Truck is parked on sidewalk and in bike lane. Oh, you might ask: Who the hell rides a bike or walks on the sidewalk at 7 am? Two bikes passed by and three people had to amble around the truck's door in the time it took to take two photos. Clickthrough for #2. Oh, there's the whole other side of the street available for parking. But that means walking 25 feet to make your delivery.

Park right in front of the No Standing Anytime sign and right on top of the green-painted roadway so as to illustrate your point: NYC regulations don't apply to me. Same story, different week: http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/3654

Park right in front of the No Standing Anytime sign and right on top of the green-painted roadway so as to illustrate your point: NYC regulations don't apply to me.

Nothing new here except this truck parked in the No Standing Anytime green zone. It was a wonderful winter morning to be on the bike, dodging illegally-parked trucks.

Note the biker in the pre-dawn gloom forced out of the green zone and into traffic on lower Ninth Avenue by Driscoll Foods. Every morning it's the same situation in this No Standing Anytime zone: bikers must go into a traffic bottleneck because lazy truckers won't park 30 feet up the street. Clickthrough for additional pictures including Driscoll's phone #201-806-2800

It's pointless to talk to this driver, because he doesn't care. We all know he could park 30 feet up the street, but he's too lazy and thoughtless to do that. Anyhow, while taking these photos just shy of 7 a.m. this morning -- at a time like many bikers I wanted to go to work -- a kid stopped me and asked me why I was taking photos. Here are my reasons:
The City spent over $1 million to build a safe, buffered bike lane down Ninth Avenue, which after it ends features a nice thick green stripe of paint on the roadway to inform drivers NOT TO PARK OR STOP THERE. That's what I pointed out to the kid -- the signs that say NO STANDING ANYTIME. No Standing Anytime also means 7 a.m. on a freezing cold weekday, when even diehard bikers are trying to get to work on the nice, safe, buffered bike lane down Ninth Avenue. It's a time when a lazy, thoughtless driver of a produce truck could park 30 feet up the street in a legal space. Who's more freezing cold? The biker. Who's engaged in the illegal activity? The driver. Yet who's going to get crushed by a truck who doesn't obey traffic signage? The biker.

Ridge produce is located at 9728 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11209. Phone: 718-861-7555. Why not give them a call and a piece of your mind? Clickthrough for the picture of the driver-side door with the truck's identifying information.

In the new Bleecker Street bike lane, the laundry guys have a new place to park illegally and get their bosses higher fines. Rather than choosing available parking across the street in the No Parking zone, they opt for the No Standing Anytime zone—a much bigger fine, nearly double. Why do these guys hate their company so much? (We already know how much they hate bicyclists.) Because parking across the street would require they walk an extra 15 feet—with a handtruck that's about 10 seconds or less. Also they've nicely chewed through their rear license plate—a violation, because numbers are missing—so it would be tough to call 888-411-3231 and report their plate 63556 JD unless you went around to the front of the truck. You could also call their company at (718) 622-4710 to report this lousy parking; supervisors are always interested to know how their companies can reduce parking violation expenses.
from two weeks ago: http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/3050
from nearly two months ago: http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/2474
If you go to the Department of Finance website, their violations have a similar pattern—no muni-meter receipt (they didn't pay the quarter), fire hydrant, traffic lane, expired meter. Maybe these guys also need a roll of quarters each day to save their company $$$?