Eyes on the Street

Staying on the cars-parked-in-bike-lanes theme...

From a Streetsblog tipster:

An apology to Streetsblog tipsters. Though our new, high-tech "Contribute to Streetsblog" page has been up and running for a few weeks, I've been having technical problems with the tips@streetsblog.org account and haven't really been checking reader mail very regularly. The problem is now fixed and I'm excavating lots of excellent contributions. I'll try to post a bunch of them this week and I promise we'll be better about this in the future, so please keep them coming. Here is the first batch:

Guess what Transportation Alternatives' Brooke DuBose and Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson found in Downtown Brooklyn's physically-separated bike lane on Tillary Street this morning? Cars and trucks, of course. Four of them driving, parking or unloading in the "protected" bike lane in just ten minutes of filming. Streetsbloggers who have been debating bike lane design and enjoying Bollard Porn, will appreciate Clarence's video:

The top 10 NASCAR drivers drove a "victory lap" around Midtown Manhattan this morning as a part of "Championship Week." While Streetsblog would like to interpret this as an elaborate promotion for the creation of a congestion relief zone, it seems more likely that this is more about selling spaghetti sauce, laundry detergent and mayonnaise and getting a new race track built on Staten Island.

DOT just finished striping new bike lanes and stencils along Grand Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side:

Sunday Afternoon Traffic: Copenhagen, Denmark. Sunday, October 1, 2006

Here is a vehicle up in the Bronx that is too large for its driveway. So its owner just takes the sidewalk.

The scene on Monday morning at the pedestrian refuge island in the middle of Flatbush Avenue between Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Public Library.