I was really hoping DOT would be out today on Lafayette. It’s been raining (or threatening rain) most days since they put down the first set of markings, but the sun’s out today any they’re nowhere to be found. Centre was repaved at the same time from Chambers past where the bike lane ends at Worth and no markings have been applied yet.

Or Chrystie Street. Been over a year and that one is still gone.

Dean Street in Boerum HIll has also been gone for over a year.

DOT says call 311, but many people have. The only logical conclusion is that DOT doesn’t care or is actively holding back. Action speaks louder than the words “Vision Zero.”

“We know DOT did not ask Community Board 12 before repossessing Inwood’s lone bike shelter. We asked DOT, twice, if CB 12 was consulted on the decision to remove the bike lanes from West 218th Street. We’re still waiting for an answer.”

http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/01/08/why-does-dot-keep-taking-away-inwood-bike-infrastructure/

Still no answer btw.

Or when bike lanes haven’t been repainted in so long that the lane markings are erased, essentially making them just sharrows or worse, nothing. Unbelievably annoying/dangerous.

Sounds like there may be a decent lawsuit in here somewhere. Someone call Gibson Dunn.

It took them 2 months to repave the bulk of Bergen Street. I filed a 311 report which they cleared without repaving. When I took to Twitter they told me it was for “efficiency reasons.” They refused to respond to my questions to how this is more efficent. So many bike lanes need to be repaved but I know they simply don’t care. Also their trucks routinely use the Kent Ave lane under the Manhattan Bridge for parking.

In one piece of good news, the bike lanes that had disappeared from Walton Avenue in the Bronx were just repainted within the last two weeks. So maybe that’s a harbinger that things are starting to turn around?

Or just extend the centre street lane from Worth up to where Centre runs into Lafayette. It’s clearly wide enough. Right now there’s no good northbound route from the Brooklyn bridge.

That would help, except for all the double-parked police vehicles in front of 100 Center.

Here’s 34th Avenue. As you can see they milled the old line on the left side (although there honestly wasn’t much left to mill) and re-painted it a little wider for most of the length. With the numbers of cyclists just growing on 34th Avenue, it’s good they’ll now have a visible path, before it was largely invisible.

But NYC is the #1 bike city in the US, right?

That is encouraging.When I rode on it recently, It looked like DOT had downgrading a perfectly accepted bike lane to sharrows.

You got that right. He will defend that in in the name of “balance”, in order to counter some of the work of Sadik-Khan, whom de Blasio once denounced as a “radical”.

(Of course she was a radical, as she single-handedly transformed a City agency that had ignored the majority of New Yorkers into one that served us all. But he didn’t mean it as a compliment.)

For what it’s worth, I finally found a way to report faded markings without having to get on the phone, which is a huge time suck.

https://www1.nyc.gov/apps/311universalintake/form.htm?serviceName=DOT+Street+Line+Marking+Faded

You can report lanes that need repainting here: http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/2550/street-or-highway-line-marking-request-or-complaint
I’m not holding my breath, but it probably factors into some statistic somewhere.

I went down Lafayette this evening. There did seem to be some markings below Canal that could turn back into a bike lane soon. Hope so.

Wow, nearly a month now and no progress on Lafayette/Centre St. Has DOT realized this would be an excellent opportunity for a protected bike lane, and gone back to the drawing board? But geez…at this point any striping would be welcome!