Lime Green Bike Lanes: Garish or Gorgeous?
The Department of Transportation is testing colors that would make bike lanes more visible to motorists, and they started with a strip of green in Brooklyn Heights — on Henry Street between Clark and Montague. Folks are already debating this color choice on StreetsBlog, where some are calling it “Gorgeous!” and others are calling it…
The Department of Transportation is testing colors that would make bike lanes more visible to motorists, and they started with a strip of green in Brooklyn Heights — on Henry Street between Clark and Montague. Folks are already debating this color choice on StreetsBlog, where some are calling it “Gorgeous!” and others are calling it “insane lime-neon green.” We’re all for bike safety, but we think that a more muted color could still stand out against the pavement — and might be more appropriate for brownstone-lined blocks. Can somebody call Benjamin Moore and let him know that there’s a demand for street paint in the soft tones of his Historical Colors collection? —KZ
High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn [StreetsBlog]
Colorful Lane Could Keep Bikers Safer [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Photo by McBrooklyn
9:55
BTW, I do cycle in nyc.
Didn’t you see that in my 9:37 post?
NO NO
NONO NO
NO NO NO
NO NO NO
NO NO NO
NO NONO
NO NO O!
(I got too bored to do the “o” but I hope this expresses my disdain for this color)
Yikes! We have to jump through hoops with landmark to work on our own houses and yet we get a bright lime green street?! That’s just crazy!
my comment was directed at 9:12 that bikes don’t deserve a bike lane not what percentage of bad people do what activity
I love bike lanes especially when cars aren’t parked there, people don’t walk out from behind a truck in the middle of a street and when bikes aren’t coming right at me the wrong way.
In 1972 while hitching through Europe, I was impressed by the separated bike lanes with their own traffic signals in CROATIA. Boy have we a long way to go. Three cheers to those who risk life and limb biking on the streets of NYC. Bloomberg should take the Fed millions to really make NYC bike friendly.
how about just white with arrows and the bike lane logo left in knockout – that is – with the street showing through.
Love the color – it stands out so much more than a solid yellow. Cluefree Me, I thought the color choice was part of Bloomberg’s whole Green NYC campaign.
I have to agree with the sentiment that “OK, the lane’s there, now use it!” As a BH resident it’s become second nature to dodge the sidewalk bikers on Montague, the delivery guys AND recreational bikers going the wrong way on all the one-way streets, and everyone on two wheels blithely flying through red lights (or blocking the crosswalks with their bikes when they deign to stop). I wish the ever-present traffic cops in the nabe would ticket cyclists more consistently instead of nailing the poor UPS truck all the time.
9:37, ride a bike and maybe you’ll see it differently.
urbny, I know ppl jaywalk and I know cars break the law but the vast majority do not. However, the vast majority of cyclist do break the laws.
All I want is for cyclists to take those laws as seriously as most drivers and pedestrians do.
BTW, anyone see how well the bike lane along 8th ave below 14th st is left alone by cars. Even cabs don’t go there. I know it’s only one example but that’s not too shabby considering that this is only painted white lines.