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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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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.
Extremely dangerous crossing point on one of the only routes for pedestrians and cyclists to enter the park. Next closest access is Broadway to the south, or a long route around via the Flushing Bay Esplanade with all of its obstacles. Drivers come around that bend at full blast so even if it's clear when you start, a car could come while you're crossing. Should be a stop sign for drivers.
34th Ave is a MAJOR bike arterial to the park but this is only way to and from that route from the CitiField parking lot. Routinely used by bicycles, but heavily used by both pedestrians and cyclists on game days as this is also one of the only ways to walk there. You have to cross a highway ramp that's on a curve and just hope the drivers are not going 60MPH because they would not have time to stop if they come around that corner at speed and there are people there. This is just one of
There is no crosswalk or curb cut here at the spot where any pedestrians, wheelchair, bicycle would arrive at the esplanade. The shortest distance between two points so of course those who are able bodied just sprint across and are trampling desire lines through the shrubbery. Everyone else has to then decide if they can see a way to the right or left where they can get in. To the right it almost looks like you can, but there's no crosswalk or curb cut down there either. To the left it's even worse.
Willets Point Boulevard is one of the most direct routes to Little Bay Park and Fort Totten Park. It is super wide an underutilized. Adding a protected bicycle lane would improve access from Downtown Flushing and give residents of Whitestone a greener form of transportation
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