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A bike lane to the Queens borough Bridge from here seems feasible. It could go in center lane. Many riders use Northern. Better yet would be bike lane from intersection with Broadway, especially since a high school is heading to Northern/Broadway
Need to reduce private cars. Needs road diet and protected bike lanes on each side or a two way on one side. Buses and bikes should have priority on the entire length of Northern Blvd.
Northern needs a full redesign with a road diet and a bike lane.
I couldn't drop the pin right. But I'd like to request a full protected bike lane on Northern Boulevard. It's very scary to bike and walk there, and we need to do something to make it safer.
FOR THE WHOLE LENGTH: This is a major direct route between Northeast Queens and Queens Plaza. It should be accessible to all users, not just drivers. Bikes, pedestrians and buses should be given priority. A protected bike lane in combination with a protected SBS bus lane would be ideal.
This is one of the most major bike/ped access points to the Flushing Bay Waterfront, CitiField and Flushing Meadows Corona Park. It is also the end of one of the major east west bike routes in the borough. Crossing this highway offramp is an absolute game of chance. No driver coming off that highway would expect to see human beings crossing there, and can't see them until they are bearing down on that crossing at 60mph. The end of this route into the park is not in the work zone, but is equally precarious crossing an onramp. And in between, a terribly waste area of illegal dumping and creepy hanging out in the shrubs. We desperately need better access to this park and waterfront for people who are not coming in cars. Also, this is one of the ONLY ways through to and from Flushing. If Cuomo gets his Airtrain to nowhere that stands to de-map human access to all of this space as well. And if the city does allow someone to build a mall there...just imagine all the workers crossing this to their part time minimum wage jobs with no health care benefits. But I digress.
This intersection is atrocious. Riding a bike northwest if you position yourself on the right side of the road on the northeast corner when the light changes you are in conflict with drivers going right on Northern and making the slight right on 54th. Drivers heading to 54th are unclear if they need a right turn signal or not. Riding southeast at a red light, the light cycle before the green is a left turn south onto Northern for drivers coming from Jackson Heights. Heavy left turn traffic and they do not yield the intersection until drivers going south on Broadway force them to. Making any cyclist play chicken with those drivers while also watching out for people turning right on Northern from their left. Many cyclists jump that light because they feel safer going against the light than with it. Pedestrians are also in the cross hairs here, with those left turn drivers blocking through traffic when they realize pedestrians have the right of way. Drivers heading towards Queens Plaza on Northern can't tell exactly where the stop line is and often come to a stop where they are basically in the intersection. Broadway is a major cycling route between Eastern Queens and Astoria. - ps - I must vehemently disagree with the other posters call for pedestrian overpasses/underpasses. No one wants to use them, they are dangerous spaces for people walking alone, and if we do that instead of making the street level reflect the residential community around it, we will have failed twice over when pedestrians cross at the street level anyway, at great expense both in the immediate and long term to maintain.
Making the turn from 48th to 34th on a bicycle is super scary. Here we are avoiding Northern to be safer, but even just crossing it is worrying it. To make that left most cyclists would attempt to cross the through traffic going north and south to get to 34th. Maybe some kind of j-turn refuge on the north east corner of the intersection where cyclists can safely wait for the light to change would encourage people to use that method instead. Also, on the south west corner there is a deep angry storm drain in the exact spot where a cyclist would either wait at the light, or need to make the turn south onto 48th. when the light is red you can navigate around the stopped car, so long as your timing isn't off with the light going green at the wrong moment. When traffic is moving you have to worry about getting clipped while avoiding the drain.
The 39th Street bridge is a useful connection when going to the Astoria Movie Theater and all the other attractions in that immediate area. But cycling infrastructure does not cross the intersection and it is very wide. Crossing north onto Steinway puts cyclists in conflict with right turns from behind and left turns from ahead and the angle of the street means you also have to be worried about getting clipped by through traffic close passing. A bike lane IN the intersection and onto Steinway would be helpful.
This stretch is incredibly dark and, in spite of the subway entrance feels extremely unfriendly to pedestrians. Drivers won't expect them here and as a woman traveling alone I am always very nervous entering and exiting there even though there may not be undue cause to fear an assault. It just feels so ugly and abandoned. Especially since the road space in that section is so hostile, limiting ancillary pedestrian and cyclist traffic which would add to a sense of greater security.
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