Enough already!! We already have existing bike lanes. Frankly, the current bike lanes do not get enough use to turn both Dean and Bergen Sts into a bike boulevard. This is just a land grab at this point. It is not about safety...it is a war on private cars!!

What about making some stretches of Bergen and Dean bike-only, like Willoughby, and thereby discouraging use of both streets as through streets? Alternatively, I would put a protected bike lane the whole length of both streets. You can do a soft barrier to allow some flexibility since both streets are narrow and have bus and delivery truck activity. But a protected lane would encourage significantly more ridership.

A protected bike lane is a division within the communities it is carved through. That’s because cyclists and deliveries don’t stop but weave around people, pedestrians, cars, traffic lights, and don’t participate in the quality of life of the communities they race through.

The cyclists, e-scooter , and e-bikes are the danger to pedestrians along Dean and Bergen precisely because they ride on the sidewalks with impunity. They delusionally think they are being safe if they don’t hit anyone! Well, pedestrians are scared to be hit so we step out of the way, that’s all that is happening. W the pedestrians are being terrorized

Cyclist and e-scooter owners who live on this block tell me, when they approach me when I’m in their way walking on the sidewalk, that they are entitled to be there because they live on the block. Seval people, with this same attitude. What are you going to do in the way of signage to insure our safety while you propose that this boulevard is so so important for their mobility? You’re empowering them over the many elderly pedestrians with this boulevard that requires our bus line be eliminated; our access to deliveries curtailed; our church community parking eliminated, and no enforcement of existing laws?

As a pedestrian it’s unsafe to use the crosswalk on Bedford where it crosses Dean street on west side because bicycles and e-bikes stop for the light IN THE CROSS WALK and do not make way for pedestrians when there are more that 6 bikes. They are only concerned with seeing if they can dart across the intersection to continue riding on Dean. How is the boulevard proposal plan to deal with this current situation that will only continue? Why is preferential treatment given to cyclists over pedestrians?

A protected bike avenue is 100% needed on Bergen, but even more so, up Dean. So many bike commuters of all types and ages use these two streets specifically, more than the others, but are constantly besieged by hazards: double-parked cars, motorcycles in the “lane” that currently exists, huge trucks, construction, etc. Please move the bus if need be, or better yet, remove a lane of parking. The streets are for everybody, not just cars and car owners.

I live on Bergen and Bedford, and regularly take (and love!) the B65. That said, I also bike all the time—both down Bergen and up Dean—and see so many bikers using these streets to commute, take their kids to school, etc. I am VERY in favor of moving the bus to Atlantic. This is not a safe street for bikers, especially all the kids who use it to go to school. Please put in a secured, separated bike lane!! It will make such a difference.