Mistakes made a hundred years ago reverberate in entirely new ways today.
Because so much street space is allocated to cars and not enough to pedestrians,
the bike network New York City is trying to build out is compromised.
Gothamist posted this video of people walking in the Eighth Avenue bike lane in Midtown just a few hours before the Times ran its crowded sidewalks feature:
https://gothamist.com/news/video-the-midtown-8th-ave-bike-lane-is-a-chaotic-circus-of-dangerous-depravity
Chuck Darwin /
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2024-08-03 15:08:20
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