Dean & Bergen Streets
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I love this plan. I currently live on Brooklyn Ave and bike on Dean & Bergen often. My biggest concern currently is that cars are constantly parking or driving in the bike lane, so a protected lane or bike boulevard would certainly help remedy that.
Please add protected bike lanes on both side of the road between Fulton and Livingston. There are only traces of painted lanes to separate cars from the bike lane. There is also a bus stop directly in the bike lane forcing cyclists into traffic lanes that are not marked as a shared lane.
Cars, trucks and buses are constantly parked or idling in the narrow south bound bike lane between Fulton and Livingston. Please repave the whole street from Fulton to Livingston and designate more space for a protected bike to continue what is in place between Livingston and Schermerhorn.
This section of Smith St needs a protected bike lane. It's very dangerous, with heavy car traffic that frequently changes lanes, pulls over, and turns (esp. at Atlantic Ave). It's also a necessary route for bikers heading towards Manhattan via the Bridge. We need bike lane protection here.
It can be very difficult turning safely here as a biker. The Bergen St bike lane is hugely popular, and this turn, which leads towards the route to the Manhattan Bridge, is much used by bikes and cars. Please make this safer to navigate as a cyclist.
Please consider adding a leading interval at this intersection. Cars frequently speed down Bergen St and then turn left, downhill onto Hoyt St. It feels dangerous to cross here because you're often in conflict with turning vehicles.
I've lived here for 31 years now—all my life—and I'm thrilled that the bike infrastructure will finally be improved. We need a protected bike lane and traffic slowing measures because people drive really dangerously on this street.
As a pedestrian residing on the Bergen/Carlton intersection I can attest that we (and our neighbors) feel FAR more at risk by the reckless behavior of cyclists than by drivers of vehicles. Our experience is that many, many (not all) cyclists ignore the traffic light, pedestrian crossings and one way traffic rules, whilst others regularly ride on our sidewalks (at speed). I personally have been knocked into, had my dogs knocked into and have frequent near misses with cyclists weekly. Please do not exacerbate this problem by increasing the volume of cyclists (let alone the likelihood of speed). While it is unpleasant that our block has turned into a parking lot due to construction on Dean with non-stop traffic jams and beeping, those unpleasantnesses pale in comparison to the physical danger we regularly experience as pedestrians from cyclists who fail to follow any rules or norms. It's a hard NO please on a bike boulevard on Bergen.
protected bike lanes here could also work well — super wide street
this is amazing, thank you!! this will be positive for bikers, families and children who frequent the block
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