Bike

02/13/2025 - 09:26

Terrifying spot. You can have bike lanes for miles but if you abandon cyclists right at the most dangerous spot between one bike route and another you will loose ridership, especially women and children. This is a confusing place for drivers as well which makes them an even greater danger to vulnerable users.

Bike

02/13/2025 - 09:23

Highway access pinch point. Highways are a huge danger zone for pedestrians and cyclists. Design aimed only at faciliting vehicular access to the highway, and in this spot including heavy trucking. And even with the design aimed at drivers, it's still a confusing, dark, complicated space for people behind the wheel. Local trucking activity creates additional obstacles and obstructions to sightlines with their large vehicles parked on the sides of the road. This is the closest route to the waterfront that crosses under the highway. There are limited access points across the Van Wyck. College Point, Linden, 20th, 14th Ave, and finally 3rd ave. For ALL users. Which forces peds and micro mobility users into shared pinch points with drivers, but also onto highway design where anything other than a vehicle is an afterthought. Abandoning ped/cyclist safety in places where they need it the most. Lighting, cleaning, and snow clearance is also a problem in the places where it's an underpass and agency conflicts over who is accountable for maintenance of that lighting, making spaces feel unsafe for women and the mobility impaired.

Favorite Place

02/13/2025 - 09:11

I heard about Spa Castle for years, but have only seen it twice. Once on a meandering bike ride where we tried to follow the water front as best we good, and the second time when I spent the day there with friends, arriving by bus. Spa Castle offers valet parking, perhaps rightly assuming that most of their guests drive there. But they don't have a parking lot, so one assumes they are parking customer's cars on the street, unless they have an agreement of some kind with one of the nearby malls. Other guests probably use FHV. Either way, bringing drivers into the community and competing for parking. If there was better bike access that might reduce the number of people arriving by car, or conversly, increase their patronage with people discovering them while out on a bike ride.

Bike

02/06/2025 - 10:48

This path to Northern Boulevard and Main Street is horrible. Narrow, and fences that are unsafe over water.

Bike

02/05/2025 - 01:35

The 2-way protected bike lane ends abruptly here and it's scary to bike through the transition. It would be helpful to extend this bike lane further down Vernon Blvd.

Accessibility

02/04/2025 - 22:36

The bridge over the cross island, along with other paths to elevated areas in the park, is not accessible by wheels (bike or wheelchair)

Bike Related Issues

02/04/2025 - 22:11

Going down this way is not always guaranteed because Shore Towers does not always keep the gates open. Huge inconvenience to go all the way back around down another road.

Unsafe Crossing

02/04/2025 - 22:07

Confusing crossing because of the signage for motorists and street can get busy with cars during rush hour without presenting a safe opportunity for cyclists and pedestrians to cross. Should be a stop sign

Accessibility

02/04/2025 - 18:21

The bike lanes all along 103rd from Roosevelt to Northern Blvd are in TERRIBLE condition. This entire street needs to be repaved ASAP. There is crumbling gravel, dangerous potholes, and other street debris and blockages on literally every single block.

Bike

02/04/2025 - 18:19

Junction Ave should be converted to a dedicated busway for the Q72 with protected bike lanes. The congestion along Junction at all hours of the day is untenable. Making the Q72 more efficient, faster, and reliable with a dedicated bus lane could do a lot to mitigate that congestion.