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
i think its a cool color.
it would make bike riding much safer.
9:18 forget reckless, i’m referring to ILLEGAL bike riding. I have never NEVER seen a bike stop at a red light in brooklyn heights. NEVER!
Agree with StateStreeter to a point as I try to be as careful and respectful as possible when I ride. But as a cyclist sometimes you are forced to be an ass especially in a not really bike friendly city where cars/trucks park or ride in bike lanes and cops don’t give a shit, pedestrains cross against the light and dare us to hit them in crosswalks, riding the greenway bike path and pedestrains decide to walk down it 4 across blocking the whole thing oblivious to the walkiway parallel to hit, etc etc. Kumbaya
FANTASTIC! Anything the city can do to help keep motorists out of bike lanes is great!
To Anonymous 9:12: I agree that many cyclists ride recklessly and disrespectfully–and it bugs me to death that they give the rest of us a bad name. Many of us cyclists are conscientious and careful, and we shouldn’t be punished for the faults of others.
WOW is that ugly – if you got to paint the whole road why not at least use yellow – since that is actually a color that has some meaning in roadway signage
Love the concept, but a softer color would be more eye-pleasing.
gorgeous…bikers in this city deserve all the help they can get.
When bikers obey signals and biking regulations then they should have their own lanes.
Gross. I was in BH yesterday where they were painting it.