Bike Snob strikes again:

“Really, at this point we should drop the pretense of calling them "bike lanes." What they really are is "electric motorbike food delivery lanes."

#bike #bikeny
https://bikesnobnyc.com/2023/08/18/the-indignity-of-commuting-by-bicycle-other-people/

The Indignity Of Commuting By Bicycle: Other People

A couple days a week I commute between the Bronx and Brooklyn. Generally, I use the Hudson River Greenway. My route looks like this: It’s a good route, mostly because the Greenway segment tha…

Bike Snob NYC

this is also why 30 mph ebikes, scooters and (#%^!!!) motorcycles should not be allowed in the bike lane at all.

#bike #bikeny

From: @straphanger
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/110894271867033352

Taras Grescoe 🚇 (@[email protected])

“How can it be that the elderly or children aren’t able to use the street because of cars?” asks Mosquera, the city’s head of infrastructures. “How can it be that private property—the car—occupies the public space?” More on how #Pontevedra kicked out cars: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life-spanish-city-banned-cars-pontevedra

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Motor Scooters Redux

Further to Friday’s post, here’s more from Streetsblog on the recent moped motorcycle crash on the Manhattan Bride bike path: It’s a decent report, and it’s worth reading (i…

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‘Inevitable carnage’: Cyclists shaken after bloody scooter crash on Manhattan Bridge

#BikeNY

https://gothamist.com/news/inevitable-carnage-cyclists-shaken-after-bloody-scooter-crash-on-manhattan-bridge

“Don’t want to share the bike lane with a throttle-powered bike that does 30mph? Don’t worry, it works on the honor system”
❗️❗️❗️❗️

#BikeNY #bike
https://bikesnobnyc.com/2023/07/28/smell-the-glove/

Smell The Glove

For years now, bike advocates have pinned all their hopes on the e-bike. It was going to replace car trips. It was going to flatten the hills, annihilate the barriers to entry that keep people from…

Bike Snob NYC

“I have no problem with delivery people, or motor scooters, or even joyriding teenagers.

What I do have a problem with is that the bike lanes are fucking full of these things, and that the people on them often ride like assholes, both in and out of the bike lane.”

Bike Snob says it all. Including the disappointing, oblivious behavior of former bike advocacy groups like #TransAlt

#bike #BikeNY

https://bikesnobnyc.com/2023/07/28/smell-the-glove/

Smell The Glove

For years now, bike advocates have pinned all their hopes on the e-bike. It was going to replace car trips. It was going to flatten the hills, annihilate the barriers to entry that keep people from…

Bike Snob NYC
Nice day for a ride #cycling #bikeNY