Excited for the bike redesign, but this block is a bus route, and a truck route, and a fire route. If we are going to prioritize bikes, lets move the massive vehicles away from them... We can keep the fire route, but move the buses and trucks.
Dean & Bergen Streets
Excited for the bike redesign, but this block is a bus route, and a truck route, and a fire route. If we are going to prioritize bikes, lets move the massive vehicles away from them... We can keep the fire route, but move the buses and trucks.
Very excited for anything the city can do to improve the experience for cyclists and pedestrians on Bergen Street and Dean Street, and slow down cars on those streets. There is also an excess of street parking on Bergen and I wonder if some of that space could be used for sidewalk extensions, pocket parks, or even just to better protect the bike lanes. Thank you!
I don't know if the police have made an exception for their own long-term storage of crashed cars, but they should not store them on the street here. It makes this part of Bergen between 6th and Flatbush harder to see and navigate.
This block tends to be especially bad for double-parked cars, with the UPS store here.
Mayflower Sales is an older business that does not have dedicated loading space. It is patronized most of the day by vehicles loading heavy steel, and therefore it is inappropriate and/or infeasible for them to park elsewhere and walk to the business. Therefore, because there is street parking in front of Mayflower, their patrons *must* stop right in front of the business, which is in the buffered bike lane. Cyclists are forced into the buffer and, because of poor road conditions, often into traffic.
The road surface on Dean is very bad between Classon and Franklin, and fairly bad from Washington to Classon. I preferentially take St. Marks if I'm going to bike that stretch.
So excited, but please make sure bike stop/go signage on court st bike lanes is added, and that the new routes get a similar treatment. Currently due to a timing mismatch at this intersection, bikes have multiple “right of way” cues via traffic lights or pedestrian signs that lead to them speeding into very busy crosswalks, and given there are two schools on that block, it’s inevitable that a kid is going to get hit. The traffic cops are doing a heroic job trying to manage this but clear signage as used elsewhere in the city would help a lot.
At this location there is a vehicle repair shop that parks half-destroyed vehicles in the parking lane for months at a time, conducts active vehicle repair (including intensive repairs such as "disassembly of an entire door" in the bike lane), and parks customer vehicles on the sidewalk, reducing it to a width narrower than ADA requirements. Their patrons also frequently double and triple park in the bike lane, often to have social gatherings after business hours.
This area of Bergen St features several schools and a large area designated for bus parking ("No Standing Any Time"). This is separated from the bike lane by a large buffered area, and the bike lane directly adjoins the street. DOE and the other schools issue themselves parking permits and fill the bus loading area, leading the busses to park in the buffered area and overlap into the bike lane. The street is wide enough for a protected bike lane with dedicated bus loading infrastructure (painted islands + crosswalks across the bike lane), and it should not be used for parking of DOE personnel's personal vehicles.
Consider moving the whole eastbound bike boulevard to St. Marks, rather than Dean. It could be possible to put in the bike boulevard past St. Mark's playground and through Albany Houses, maintaining a true straight route for the entire eastbound bike boulevard, rather than dog-legging around Kingsborough Houses as it would here on Dean.
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