Fantastic New Bike Lane Proposal

http://bikeyface.com/2012/08/16/urban-replanning/

For a late night (early morning?) laugh. I especially appreciate the shoaler boxes.

She did forget to include a lane for miniature bikes, though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL7pUIhNSm4

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on August 24, 2012 at 9:37am

All it needs is a track-stand wobble zone, with a big buzzer that goes off if it detects a foot on the ground.

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Permalink Reply by Derek on August 24, 2012 at 10:58am

What's a shoaler?

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Permalink Reply by mindfrieze on August 24, 2012 at 11:22am

From BSNYC:

If you stop at a red light and there is already another cyclist waiting at it, you must stop your bicycle in front of the rider who is already there.

As far as I know, I am the only cyclist in New York who does not observe this rule, because while I'm quite happy to queue up behind somebody at an intersection, I have never, ever had somebody stop behind me. If you're waiting, someone will pull up ahead of you. If a third person comes, they'll roll ahead and stop in front of the second person. On a busy day, this accumulation results in sort of a shoal of cyclists which juts out into the middle of the street like a sandbar of idiocy

Derek said:

What's a shoaler?

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-8 mi. on August 24, 2012 at 2:43pm

Fixy box is where its at.

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Permalink Reply by Dovah Cat on September 20, 2012 at 5:32pm

I didn't see this. Awesome. Yes. Track-stand show-down.

Tricolor said:

All it needs is a track-stand wobble zone, with a big buzzer that goes off if it detects a foot on the ground.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on September 21, 2012 at 9:20am

Love it!

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Permalink Reply by Bill Savage on September 21, 2012 at 12:32pm

And another lane for what I do: slow down, time the light and then hit it when it changes green for you. My goal is always to get where I'm going without putting my feet on the ground, even if that means going slowly when I won't make a light. I regularly have little leap-frog dual: someone passes me on, say, Damen. They are stopped at the next light, I go through it in gear while they gear up, zip past me and . . . are stopped at the next light waiting when I pass them as the light changes (waiting for intersection to clear, of course) and then they pass me. . . and are waiting at the next light. We end up where we're both going at the same time, but I never stop pedaling.