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Picture of the Day: Kingston Ave. Bike Lane Takes Shape

Some awaited it, some dreaded it, but after many months of speculation, the controversial Kingston Ave. bike lane is finally taking shape. Last night, clear markings were put in place by the NYC Dept. of Transportation indicating that a portion of one of Crown Heights’ busiest thoroughfares is now reserved for bicyclists.

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  • Frustrated motorist

    This is ridiculous. Kingston is already hazardous to drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.

    This will bring even more traffic to an already overly congested avenue.

    Can we fight it?

    All of these people planning our streets live and work in Manhattan and are clueless about what it is like to live in Brooklyn. I am so sick and tired of these liberal yuppie city planners trying to make everything according to their vision.

  • insane

    they just don’t want people to drive..

    And do they really think it will be safe for bicyclists? 1 lane on a busy street plus double parked cars and unloading trucks plus aggressive drivers is not a safe recipe.

  • My thoughts

    I’m all for bicycling. It’s healthy and it’s fun.

    However, I do NOT support bicycle lanes on streets that are already overcrowded. The city can make special bicycle routes on streets that have less traffic, or on streets that are wider so that it does not interfere with vehicles.

    This move by the city is deliberately made to make life miserable for drivers so that they should consider using a bicycle instead. Basically a bunch of Idiots who believe that everyone is a 20 or 30 something years old with no kids and a dog.

  • WOW

    70 years and chabad has no power over a small kingston av .
    now the cops will give tickets if yr car is one inch
    on the holy bike lane
    the 11 commandment . THO SHALL NOT BE CAUGHT WITH YR CAR IN THE HOLY BIKE LANE

  • MBA

    Y didn’t they do it on albany or brooklyn ave ?

    serious traffic hazard for ALL: cars, pedestrians AND bicyclists (and rollerbladers etc) themselves !!!!!!

    MBA

  • Really now?

    Where is our community council?? Do u know how dangerous this is??? Cars are constantly pulling in and out of stores. A bike lane belongs on a street w homes not busy businesses. An accident waiting to happen.

  • ?

    this is just crazy and the city did it in the middle of the night like thieves because they know this neighborhood doesn’t want it

    • moishe mendle

      AND, when i worked until midnight or shortly there after on kingston, you stapled yechi posters and other notices to the trees and taped them to the walls……….as YOU say IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT…..JUST LIKE THIEVES

  • moshe

    rachmana l’tzlan. when will these people stop imposing their agenda on every community in brooklyn?

  • Resident

    Great news for the Yuppies coming from all the buildings being built for them down by market place. Its nice to see how in williamsburg they fought to move the bike lane away from their main street becuase it will cause congestion and bring not tznius bikers but the same chasidim dont mind running our neighberhood to the ground and bringing the goyimn here. THis is bad news for drivers and busineses.

  • Eastern Parkway Northward

    For now it only goes from Eastern Parkway northward, towards Fulton Street.

  • Pathetic

    I LOVE biking and thing everyone that can should bike and the yeshiva stufent, but Kingston ave is the thoroughfare for the ultra orthodox and it’s mamesh congested.

  • great

    So now CH has one more feature to encourage gentrification and price out residents, and to show the community that we have no say….

    SO- who do we call and write to?

    Let’s post the politicians phone numbers addresses email addresses and fax numbers and actually all say something.
    Let’s go!!!

  • Me

    I guess when the police behind me is on an emergency I just will not have any room to move over to let them through

  • Sean (on a blue bike)

    I have been bicycle commuting from Crown Heights to Bushwick for eight years and recently moved to Flatbush. From a bicyclists perspective, the lanes through Crown Heights are of course welcome but it smells like road rage. I speculate that the bike lanes are partly a result of the change in property value in crown heights and partly a citywide policy to make driving miserable.

    I drive a car in the winter, and sometimes in the spring and fall, I bike in the summer because it is cheaper, faster, takes away from congestion on the road, and I get very good exercise doing it.

    The Kingston avenue & Brooklyn Avenue bike lanes are great for summer-time riders like me, I encourage anybody who can to try it for themselves. For the rest of us, I recommend a good podcast to pass the time? I find that listening to a good interview or concert makes the commute more enjoyable.
    Love,
    Sean

    p.s. Please don’t kill me with your car by accident.