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56th Avenue is currently a speedway with two wide motor vehicle lanes. Please remove one of the lanes and make this a protected bike route between Queens Blvd and Junction Blvd.
55th Ave is extra wide between 97th Pl and 99th St. Make this segment of bike lane parking protected.
When I first moved to Queens and was trying to figure out how to get into the park this is one of the first access points I attempted. What a nightmare. Somewhat better in recent years, but the city needs to come up with a uniform way of dealing with bike/ped crossings at these highway spaces that doesn't actively discourage usage. Love that you have to basically run down a dirt patch across the highway onramp to get into the park, and that, once in, it's all parking lot and no park.
A bike lane on Broadway would be especially beneficial here. A major crossing point between neighborhoods and extremely difficult to navigate through on a bike. There's bit of a hump here, so one is going uphill in both directions, pavement is atrocious and drivers are coming and going in a million different directions.
The pavement under the LIE here is a nightmare, specifically in the bike lane, and exactly where it gets dark and difficult to see. Especially considering the west/north bound drivers often make a right turn here and a cyclist needs to be paying attention to the drivers coming behind them on their left. The pavement is routinely patched, but the right turning drivers continuously erode those patches leaving worse holes than before.
Broadway is another important connector through the borough. Any route that is a through route in this borough full of dead ends, train trestles and one way streets should provide safe bike access.
Both bridges connecting the Flushing Bay Promenade to the city streets are badly designed and in poor condition. The inclines on the street side of these need to be normalized with the street, because as they are they make if very difficult for cyclists to get themselves safely to the curb so they can see when it's safe to cross. But also, could we get on demand stop lights here or something? It's like playing frogger from a dead stop on the side of a highway. It's diffcult to access the promenade all around, and very little indication to the public that there is public green space there.
There needs to be a curb cut for cyclists to get into the park. I either use the pedestrian curb cut to the south, or the Hall of Science curb cut to the north, but creates confusion and conflict. For new cyclists there's no way to know this is their best route into the park. Signage would be helpful as well. ALSO: it's off the map, but extremely important. The redesign of the bridge between the Hall of Science and the Tennis complex is a nightmare for pedestrians and cyclists. Having highway access at one of the few and most important ped/bike access points to the park (over the said highway no less) is insulting, confusing, dangerous, and offputting. This should be redesigned to prioritze non-vehicular usage.
The signage for Westbound cyclists does a poor job of indicating the 1 block camel hump. It's also an extremely unusual design, so not something anyone would look for. Also, the shared ped/bike space under the LIE is dark, dirty and depressing. There's also nothing to indicate to pedestrians that they are sharing that space with cyclists.
MASSIVE veto on the idea of making 99th the official bike crossing location, especially to cross the LIE. As a woman who typicaly walks and bikes alone I avoid what I call "rape cages" at all costs. But setting aside the safety issue, the second you ask a cyclist to climb a steep incline or dismount and walk their bike your bike route has a 100% failure. Road engineers design our streets to enable drivers to making sweeping unemcumbered movements with their car at speed, why should we expect someone who is powering their transportation with their body to expend that much additional energy and time just so we can enable those drivers to blast along with their foot on the gas pedal. My routes under the LIE are Queens Blvd, Junction and 108th. The Junction and 108th underpasses need to be redesigned to accomodate cyclists if you want any hope of new riders moving between Rego Park and Corona.
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