Really wild Bike n Brew ride tonight. Start at Union Square. Riot cops walk by, going to a Palestine/Israel protest. Then a group of Orthodox anti-Israel types. Meanwhile a big rally for parks. Fire trucks scream onto 17th. We pull out, pass the fire trucks, which then pass us back. Try to go up 6th Ave but for blocks we're in nothing but cop cars, for the Gaza protest. It was the weirdest group ride I've ever been on. Gaza protestors on the sidewalk, us on the street, cops nervous. #bikeNYC
Biking through Williamsburg, watching people in their oversized emotional-support SUVs barely fit in the streets. Like, what are you even doing here, dumbasses? #BikeNYC
Our route to Prospect Park (from Forest Hills) will be an hour and a half (13mi) instead of an hour (10mi) because there's no fucking bike infrastructure south of us. At all. OSM routing directions are like, "just take Union Turnpike!". lol, no. #BikeNYC
Wasn't really paying attention last night while #InlineSkating, but I passed at least two ghost bikes. The photo here is at Central Park South and Fifth Ave, which... what... some driver was desperate to beat the light and get stuck in the perpetual traffic jam on East 59th St and so killed a cyclist?
The other bike I passed was the one in BK at Wythe and the highway where the assistant DA was killed a few years ago.
I was in the #QueensBlvdPBL with my (bakfiet) cargo bike, and some lady pulls her car about 20-30ft in front of me. Predicting what would happen next, I gave a wide berth as her passenger flung the door open just before I passed them.
I screamed "ASSHOLE" at the top of my lungs, scaring tf out of both of them. It felt good.
Sunday morning, Monday morning, no matter the day or time of day, I have yet to walk/run/bike past the new Wegmans and not see at least one car blocking the bike lane.
@nypd, would be grand to fix this before someone gets killed.
And yes, there are more than these 1 or 2 car-addled shoppers in the store at any one time. Most can somehow figure out how to bring their haul home without breaking the law.
In less awesome news, while going around one of the many trucks parked in the queens blvd "protected" bike lane, I failed to notice the flattened and very gory rat. Hopefully that comes out of my tires before I need to drag my bike inside for maintenance!
On one hand, I appreciate the new bike parking (I complained to them about the lack of it), and the spacing is good. On the other hand, it's 2024 and #NYC isn't doing staple racks? jfc! #BikeNYC
Anniversary blog post from February 20, 2011: a Daily News reporter writes a whole story around the 311 calls of one Manhattan resident, without revealing that she's a professional urban planner with an ax to grind against #bikeNYC