I'm in favor of more and better bike lanes for Dean and Bergen Streets! I'm a cyclist and long-time resident of the neighborhood. Thank you.
Dean & Bergen Streets
I'm in favor of more and better bike lanes for Dean and Bergen Streets! I'm a cyclist and long-time resident of the neighborhood. Thank you.
A bike boulevard would be great here, but this block frequently has lots of double parked cars and also tons of potholes. The poor street conditions extend all the way to Franklin and frequently require bikes to enter the traffic lane.
A bike thruway would be great on Dean & Bergen but the road on this stretch of Dean is currently atrocious to bike on. The road is lumpy and horrible to ride on, whatever construction tore the street up left it an absolute mess.
Please put in a protected bike lane and keep big trucks off Bergen!! I was almost hit by a freight truck on this block that entered the bike lane to go around a car idling in the traffic lane. The truck not only failed to slow down as it approached the car, but actively sped up as it entered the bike lane. Had I not slammed on my brakes based purely on the sound of the truck's engine going into higher gear (it came from behind me so I had no idea how close it already was) I have no doubt the truck would have run me over.
A ton of illegal parking, especially from NYPD, blocking bike and pedestrian accessibility. Tons of pot holes as well.
As a 10yr resident of the block, I would welcome a dedicated and more visible bike blvd project in this section of Bergen St. Ocean Hill Playground and skatepark has been tremendously popular since the reconstruction, and the three adjacent schools also get much use from the playground. Adding a more visible and active bike blvd would help to slow down traffic which sometimes zooms by at unsafe speeds. I was one of the ppl who called and requested speed bumps early on, but they don’t seem to fully mitigate the speeding. Maybe adding a traffic camera to catch speeders as well as mitigate the blocking of bike lanes by commercial vehicles. Commercial delivery vehicles can park on Rockaway and use hand trucks to service the block.
As a 10yr resident of the block, I would welcome a dedicated and more visible bike blvd project in this section of Bergen St. Ocean Hill Playground and skatepark has been tremendously popular since the reconstruction, and the three adjacent schools also get much use from the playground. Adding a more visible and active bike blvd would help to slow down traffic which sometimes zooms by at unsafe speeds. I was one of the ppl who called and requested speed bumps early on, but they don’t seem to fully mitigate the speeding. Maybe adding a traffic camera to catch speeders as well as mitigate the blocking of bike lanes by commercial vehicles. Commercial delivery vehicles can park on Rockaway and use hand trucks to service the block.
Lot of trucks double parking in the bike lane on this block, forcing cyclists into traffic
I am a senior citizen and cyclists and motor scooters make crossing the street dangerous because they ignore traffic signals. I trust crossing in front of a car than I do a bicycle or motor bike. We need less bicycle infrastructure not more.
Bike boulevards should not take priority over bus riders. There are many members of this community who rely on the B65, including those who are elderly or have mobility issues. Disrupting their mode of transportation in favor of cyclists is wrong.
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