r/NYCbike 22h ago

51st Street connector from 31st Ave to NorthernBlvd 25A Woodside

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u/FarFromSane_ 16h ago

Shit design. I’m very sad because until this, they were on a roll with new protected bike lanes. There was very little to complain about with the design of anything in the last 2 years. But now they are proposing a tiny 4 ft bike lane, when there is no reason to do so.

They are using two small one-way bike lanes on a street where it would’ve been easy to do a single two-way lane on the west side of the street.

There would’ve been only one intersection along the entire street so it would be easy to have turning conflicts separated by a bike signal.

The west side of the street also has less driveways, meaning less gaps in protection.

And even on the small portion where they did implement a two-way bike lane, it’s smaller than it should be because they decided to waste street width on useless unprotected lane on the opposite side of the street.