Business owners are also sending threatening letters to bike lane supporters.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Fuck, I would have personally benefited from these bike lanes! Whenever I'm in Astoria and want to bike on 31st Street, I always have to do this slalom between the columns. When lanesplitting in the driving lane there, there is not enough space for cars to pass safely, and New York drivers WILL NOT suffer the indignity of driving behind a bicyclist. So I have to slalom into the parking lane whenever a rush of cars approaches from behind, then slalom back when they have passed to stay out of the door zone, because there is not enough space in the parking lane to pass safely either, again because of the columns and also double parkers. It's challenging but tiring. Ironically the reason I want to be on 31st Street is because that's where all the businesses are! For now it's just too annoying though so I usually just go eat elsewhere.
Damn if that was me in Charge, I would reward them by making the whole street a car park for SUV's enjoy your safety dumbasses
Edit: scrap the car park, let's just make it a one way small highway with barriers.
Reminder that anything "local business owners" say about things affecting the amount of customers they have has had zero ethos since the 90s when smoking in restaurants was banned. The "local business owners" complained nonstop about it but traffic actually went up as non-smokers went out to eat more.
Yep, every time a bike lane was put in against the objections of 'local business owners', those same businesses end up thriving afterwards, this is a global phenomenon. Yet despite decades of precedent they need to be dragged kicking and screaming.
Fucking nimbys as usual. "Oh we don't disapprove of a bike lane, just not one on this street."
god, nimbys are so fucking dishonest and stupid. bike lanes increase revenue and create a safer environment. nimbys want to have a worse business in a less safe street as long as they don't have to take 30 more seconds of unloading their deliveries
Plus they could use the bike lane as personnal parking and unload their deliveries
/s just in case
Most of these business owners should then be open to the idea we move their shop as is, and put it right up to a highway. Where the front door opens right into a lane of car traffic.
Wouldn’t the “safety issues” mean that the project should go through? That owner states there’s tons of visibility issues, aren’t cars the ones with worse visibility in the first place? And then you add in higher speeds and worse stopping distance. It sounds like the street shouldn’t be open for cars at all!