[Ep. 1029] BicycleDutch went NYC! I cycled around New York with mr. Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson and walked around Brooklyn with Doug Gordon co-host of the podcast “The War on Cars”. New York certainly was an interesting experience! More information in the blog post: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?p=25671
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America’s infrastructure is pathetic
not exactly a terry barentsen hotline series but I still enjoyed it very much…especially from a critical eye who can tell which development stage nyc cycling infrastructure is in.
Unfortunately this video aged like milk. The governor just announced that she's indefinitely shelving the congestion pricing program literally days before it was about to start despite the MTA having already signed a contract and billions of dollars having been earmarked for funding.
I can't understate how catastrophically bad this is for the future of not just New York but the rest of the country. This will have a chilling effect across the US for any city looking to implement similar programs. Other cities look to NY as a testing ground for innovative policies. Why would they take the risk if New York couldn't even get it done? The Governor has unilaterally undone decades of effort and may have permanently killed our strongest weapon against car dependency and climate change.
Sad to say that just yesterday the NYC governor just unilaterally cancelled the congestion fee
For an American city, NYC's bike lanes are not bad!
Unfortunately, the Congestion Relief Zone Toll you mentioned has recently been killed by Governor Hochul. It will probably not happen after all.
"The introduction of the congestion relief zone toll, announced for June 2024". Oof
A very well though piece! As a cyclist in Queens I have some thoughts – the open streets are great, but not if you need to actually GET somewhere. They're full of people/dogs/children wandering in every direction without paying attention. Have never used my bell so much. Also, that 59th street bridge – someday, we'll get the outer roadway on the south side turned into bike lanes so that we can have more than a quarter of a lane to ride. I think my handlebars are wider than the bike lane right now. Also yeah, the congestion pricing bait and switch….
In my (albeit middle-class) opinion, one cannot truly gauge a city's cycling accessibility unless one has biked in the poorest, most marginalized areas of the city.
Rip congestion pricing
Sadly the congestion charge is not going through.
Haha about that new congestion pricing….it just got cancelled for further review by the NY Governor Hochul
Very well explained
Thanks for sharing!
Nice episode!
Amsterdam❤🚲
Youtube traduz ae!….passou do tempo da tecnologia do youtube evoluir ter uma ferramenta de tradução incluído e traduzir esses videos para outros idiomas outras línguas, deixar de ser só pra Inglês ver!
What a shithole! So grim, gray, noisy an polluted! I thank god I live in Europe. There was one city I liked in the USA in the 90's. That was San Francisco, but it is changing for the worst.
Sadly those bollards in the lanes, while annoying and inconvenient, are born from the fact that people in cars will drive wherever it is physically wide enough to fit, and will attempt to drive anywhere it appears they may fit.
Just to set a few glorious things straight: if in the Netherlands you choose to bike outside of cities, let's say between two close cities you will not make it very far. Let's say from Leiden to Gouda, or from Gouda to s'Hertogenbosch.
It may not be a true cycling city, but Google Maps will now route you through the most possible bike lanes with color coating denoting the type. The “best route” option typically gives me the most bike friendly route sometimes adding an extra half mile to my trip in order to keep me on “protected” bike lanes for a greater percentage of it.
I just moved nearby Portland and I’m excited that there are more biking options. However, it’s scary to think about the extent of the car-centric system spanning the US
From what I have seen transforming a car centric area's roads to work with cyclists takes time. It is not obvious where all the trails need to be.
As others have pointed out, the governor has put a hold on congestion pricing. I'm not sure this will have a major impact on cycling infrastructure though it was a mistake. What this otherwise fair and balanced video misses however is the near takeover of Manhattan's cycling lanes by delivery workers who have no interest or accountability to the laws that govern their use. They ride recklessly and often on gasoline powered or fully electric bikes. Because many are undocumented immigrants, which in NYC grants them status as a protected class, the authorities turn away from sanctioning them. Blame for their behavior is placed instead on the businesses they work for, or the customers who order the goods they are delivering.
There are times I feel safer in the traffic lanes since at least automobile drivers are predictable.
THE CITY-BIKES GOTTA GO!
I am an avid biker.
New York is not a bicycle city. Ride on dirt trails. Ride on traffic free, paved trails. Biking in the city is neither practical nor safe. Cyclists, not all but many, do not adhere to traffic laws. They run stop signs and red lights. They ride the wrong way on one way streets. Ridiculous.
Visit Minneapolis. Our cycling infrastructure is 1000x better. There are trails all through town and to most (if not all) of the suburbs. You can bike all the way to Duluth if you want (150 miles away)
Cycling in the US? Are you crazy?