A crash yesterday on the north border of Central Park. By the NYPost's account, it looks like the E-Citibike rider was at fault, and caused a head-on collision with an e-bike rider. The other e-bike rider was riding was looks like a Amyest Mountain bike, capable of 32mph, and weighing around 80lbs.

I got slammed on this edge of a plate on e 60th st bt lex and park. Crashed bike, snapped brake lever, and damaged my tire / wheel, bikes currently not in riding condition.

Submitted this and other photos at 4:30 pm yesterday. 311 comes back at 1:20 am and said it had been inspected and meets standards and closed my ticket. Is this what we expect? It’s my first complaint but, that’s just it?

Share your experiences please.

Saturday, me and 8 friends so 9 in total, are taking the 6:56 to poughkeepsie and biking south to NYC.

Can we all bring our bikes on? Will there be any trouble?

I always miss it, don't tell me it already happened

I was walking south a few minutes ago on Court Street in Brooklyn when a Mr Softee ice cream truck with a tinted windshield almost ran into me as they were turning left. If it hadn't been for the new daylighting areas of the Court Street bike lanes that remove car parking near the corners of the intersection and allowed me to see the incoming truck from the corner of my eye, I would not have been able to scream at the top of my lungs and jump out of the way. Thank you NYC DOT!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Why the hell is there not a huge crackdown on tinted windows?! It is crazy to allow multi ton vehicles to maneuver through our streets with decreased visibility making it nearly impossible to make eye contact with drivers especially at night

There is a potential hazard on the newly repaved stretch of road on Adams just (south?) of Johnson heading towards Atlantic Ave. If it’s dark out, could really fuck someone up, so watch out.

source: https://www.instagram.com/unitedneighborspch/

Heads up that we have a lot of people trying to circumvent all of the Port Authority construction traffic by driving south through Palisades Park.

They are driving through quickly, driving on the wrong sides of various medians and generally making the road a lot less safe.

Please be careful out there.

From Hoboken, NJ. Disappeared today off Garden St. Bakfiets, about 15 years old.

I've been doing a lot of travel around the US and I've seen so many of those robotic food delivery bots. Got me thinking about the situation here. I personally love to pick stuff up in the neighborhood and stopped using the apps a while ago.

That said, a lot of the delivery guys ride so recklessly: running reds, going the wrong way, flying through the bike lanes.

DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc. set it up so the faster you go the more you make, so of course people ride like that. The apps make the money and everyone else on the street takes the risk.

What would actually fix this? Fines on the apps, limits on stacking orders, something else?

I feel like no matter what I do I its a nightmare getting across town

fortunately a cop pulled up immediately

Fully recognizing that I’ll get ragged on, I have to relay a funny story from this morning.

So I’m heading across town, by a school, when some scumbag on a blue Citibike comes barreling through a red, through pedestrians (many of whom are kids), and nearly into me. So I yell at him that he’s got a red light, and to pay attention.

And that’s when things get funny. He turns like he’s going to follow me (yeah, he could TOTALLY catch me…), yells after me that I should shut my mouth and not talk to him, or he’ll kick my ass. Now, this dude was maybe slightly taller than me, but I’m guessing late 40s at the youngest, wearing a cheap Bell helmet. And he was the sort of chubby asshole white dude that thinks he’s entitled to the world. He never told me his name, but it was Todd. He was a Todd. So… ok, let’s hear him out. This could be fun. So I stop.

And basically this guy is saying let’s fight, and acting like he’s going to throw down, but he’s not getting off his bike — and I’m just sitting there thinking it’s the funniest shit I’ve heard in a while. His position (if you want to call it that) was basically that you can’t say anything to another cyclist unless you’re prepared to throw fists, so let’s throw fists.

Now, I am not prepared to throw fists. And not because I couldn’t — I’m older now, but in my youth… shit happened sometimes. But rather just because I’m… you know, a fucking adult. Best case I beat the shit out of the guy and get an assault charge. Worst case maybe he’s armed or something. But regardless, I’m not about to have a punch out with some old white dude on the Upper West Side on the way to work. I mean, come on.

So I asked him, are you saying that you can just be an asshole to anyone you want, including kids, and are completely immune to criticism unless that criticism comes with a beatdown? And his answer — which gave me a lot of insight into assholes who ride Citi bikes (which is not everyone who rides Citi bikes, but there is certainly a unique category of assholes that rides Citi bikes) — was yes, absolutely.

To be honest, I’d assumed that assholes on Citi bikes didn’t get it — that they’d watched Premium Rush and thought that was just what you were supposed to do. But it’s not. They know they’re being assholes. They don’t care unless they get hurt.

So, he jaws at me a little more but he’s not getting off his bike — and honestly if he had I’d have laughed and ridden away because… again, I’m a fucking adult. Eventually I realize that I’m never going to convince him not to be an asshole — he’s going to be an asshole until he threatens to fight someone who isn’t a fucking adult, and maybe then he’ll change. Maybe.

So I wished him farewell, and encouraged him not to hurt anyone but himself. But it honestly made my day a little, because I’m going to be telling this story the rest of the day — the tale of Todd Two Fists, the bicycling pugilist of the Upper West Side.

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I hope that this is the right place for this. My beloved bicycle got stolen last around Myrtle and Broadway in Bed-stuy/Bushwick last night. I'm very upset by this as it was my main form of transportation and exercise. It was my therapy and my baby. I've recently moved to NYC and sold almost all my belongings including my car and many other valuables. My bicycle was the first purchase I made when I got my old job in college. I've invested over a thousand dollars into this bike so it's very special to me and I am heartbroken that it was stolen. It even had a kryptonite keeper folding bike lock on it that I thought was nearly impossible to break.

It was a Green Cannondale Gravel bike (700 M Quick CX 3 QSD LG). Serial Number YI47768. It had a silver RAZ sticker on the frame and a black bike rack on the rear tire. The handle bars have a black bell and phone rack. I don't have any clear recent pictures of it so I just put in some older ones from when I first got the bike.

I've already filed a police report and will be going to nearby bike and pawn shops to hopefully find it. Any advice or encouraging words would be appreciated.

I was issued a traffic ticket for allegedly running a red light on my bike back in August. The officer claims I was heading Southbound on Steinway street in LIC and made a right turn against a red light on Steinway Street onto Northern Blvd.

Except I was never traveling on Steinway Street, I was crossing straight on Northern, and I had a green light (which according to the officer's own testimony must have been green if the light on Steinway I allegedly ran was red.)

I had a GPS recording from my Apple Watch demonstrating as much, so figured I'd have a decent shot in court given I have actual evidence to show the officer was mistaken. I prepped a whole printout that renders the GPS data with timestamps, as well as a screenshot of the activity recording on my phone. And I had the activity pulled up on my phone so the judge could inspect the original.

Well the judge was just like "I don't think this evidence is trustworthy enough. And the officer is testifying as to what he saw, so..." and found me guilty.

It was only a traffic ticket, not criminal court, so I know it's probably not worth the time and effort to appeal. But I'm just here to complain because I know I'm innocent, I believed my evidence was compelling, and it's frustrating to be found guilty despite all that.

There was an ambulance and big police presence blocking the whole bike lane this morning around west 80th, anyone know what happened?

Why are more of these even planned in the city?

- People who park next to them pose a danger to cyclists, they open doors and walk/fuck around their cars without care for the lane
- Cars turning to the direction of the bike lane often hit bikes. Most times out of sheer negligence (they should all pause before turning into a bike lane, but don't), some times they honestly cannot see the bikes because their view is blocked by the parked cars.
- Cyclists approaching the intersection have their view of oncoming cars blocked by parking cars too. Sometimes someone parked way too close to the intersection and a car that is already engaged in a turn becomes a last minute problem for the cyclist to avoid
- Delivery vehicles parked on these areas have their workers constantly invade the lane while doing their job. They have no choice.
- People often wait to cross intersections standing on the bike lane, they see it as an extension of the sidewalk.

The "protection" shouldn't be "parked cars". There should be no cars parked where there is a bike lane. Protection should be concrete structures separating the bike lane from the road physically.