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This corridor will close gaps in pedestrian and cycling routes from Long Island City and Astoria to East Elmhurst and College Point, Queens. Running parallel to the Long Island Sound, this route will improve transportation options throughout New York City's most diverse borough and enhance park access for Queens neighborhoods with limited green space. Connecting these neighborhoods with an active transportation network will particularly benefit Queens residents living within much of the planning area who are underserved by public transit access.
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Comments (64)
Throughout the corridor, protecting the bike lanes should be a high priority. It has been my experience in the area that whatever is possible, drivers will do. The NYPD seems unwilling or unable to enforce this, but it is a problem we can engineer our way out of. Bring out the jersey barriers!
Cars continually park in green space on this path, putting pedestrians and cyclists at risk.
Need to formalize this connection between Seaver and Promenade. There is a fence here mostly blocking access. Need to connect the promenade better to those walking and biking to points south like the ballpark, Roosevelt Ave bridge, and flushing meadows.
Need to add solid curb cuts for wheeled device, bicycle and pedestrian connection between promenade down through parking lots to Seaver way.
Two way bike path needs to be added to Seaver Way to connect promenade path with Roosevelt Ave bike lane bridge crossing. Implement this well before bridge north path is rehabilitated.
Add two way bike path to ultimately connect to 20 Ave! This was proposed years ago, so need to see it happen yesterday. Thx.
For the longest time I didn't even know that the extension of this bike lane along the water existed because you need to cross a street and ride on a sidewalk to get to it. It is not well marked where or how to continue along the bike path here.
The bike path over this bridge is one of the primary thing that prevents me from biking in this area. I live in northern flushing and in order to get to Astoria, you need to bike along this very narrow path along the side of the bridge. It's barely wide enough for two people to pass one another. At the western end closer to the waterfront, it dumps out onto a sidewalk and a wrong-direction bike lane that has not seen maintenance in years. It feels like a very awkward connection to an otherwise beautiful waterfront bike ride.
This area is one of the worst spots to bike in along the waterfront. The roadway half of the bike lane is often underwater or has mud and garbage along and inside of it. If it were more attractive and less grim I think more people would be okay with using it. What I would propose is fully building out the sidewalk wider to take over the current lane on the asphalt. That way the entire bike lane and ped area would be raised and less prone to flooding and dirt and mud. Perhaps jersey barriers on the edge keeping peds/bikes safe buffered from cars. I think it needs just to be clean and effective. Don't worry here about trees or greenery or getting fancy. Just make it work. Some better lighting would be welcome.
It would be great if this rotary, Ditmars Ave, and 102nd Street Bridge were friendlier to bikes. The greenway ends abruptly on 27th Ave and there's very few protected bike lanes north of Astoria Boulevard. Despite being right next to the Grand Central Parkway the streets in this area are actually pretty quiet a lot of the time, would be nice if the street design reflected that and made it easier for people to bike to and from the airport and points west like the protected bike lane on 20th Ave in Ditmars Steinway.
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