MyBikeLane

"Yes, I know I'm parked in the bike lane. I'm waiting to pick someone up."

Ben & Jerry's truck.

Check out that AC stream. Must have been sitting there for a while...

Real safe...

I asked the Verizon driver if he realized he was parked in the bike lane. He looked at me as though I were crazy.

The scene on West 18th Street outside InterActiveCorp headquarters: A security guard illegally placing cones in the bike lane so livery cabs and limosines can park in it (seen down the road). Sorry that the billionaire mogul's company isn't doing so well on the stock market, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to block off an entire street of bike lane so your fuel-hogging execs can have their limos idle while zero-emission bikes are forced out of their reserved lane. I'm forwarding this post to the Transportation Commissioner, as corporations can't just willy-nilly take over bike lanes.

Barry, also try turning off your building's lights at night once in a while; Con Ed expects us all to conserve energy. And maybe lowering your energy bills will help curb your company's financial losses?

Another delivery. This one was even worse than the Coca-Cola truck.

Delivery is no excuse. It endangers us riders!

There was no one to see. Probably behind the trucks on the other side. But they stood there as far to the right as possible.

I asked him why he is blocking the bike lane. He told me that he is waiting for the car next to him to leave to get a legal parking spot as the other side will be cleaned shortly and apologized.

GTS, you've blocked the bike lanes on West 20th and West 21st Street for weeks now with your construction project. Problem is, you only have permits to block the sidewalks, not the bike lanes. This morning your foreman parked his white Saab in the bike lane on West 20th, where you simultaneously and illegally took delivery of a load of dirt. Dirt should be unloaded on your site, not in the bike lane. Those who practice and teach future theologians should first look in their own backyard by exploring the ethical dilemmas of a large construction project that illegally and unfairly absorbs public space designed to allow carbon-neutral bicyclists a safe commute. By the way, I earlier watched one of your contractors explode at a delicatessen owner on Ninth Avenue at 6:55 am and demand the owner sell him chewing tobacco at a price way below what it sells for; this guy in a blue bandanna verbally abused the hard-working store owner with numerous profanities. Last week I observed two contractors smoking on the site 15 feet behind the "no smoking on this site" sign. Time to clean up your act, GTS:
1. Contractors who drive need to find LEGAL parking spaces just like normal humans
2. Take deliveries inside, not outside your construction site
3. Move all your orange-and-white striped barriers OUT of the bike lanes
4. Practice the ethical values you teach your seminary students by having an admirable construction site

Taxi stand here frequently disrespects the bike lane

COFFEE BREAK STOP

Come on, really now.

I'd like to give the police the benefit of the doubt but this seems STUPID. There is an empty parking place right next to him, two empty places directly across the street and 2 or 3 more in front of him. Why does this guy need to park in the bike lane? Stupidity?

This guy missed his turn so he pulled into the bike lane and backed up the entire block, through an intersection then took the left he missed the first time.

This time the car was completely empty. I think it's the first time a passenger car reaches "level 5".

A year later, and this idiot still doesn't get it.