I was riding on Dean Street in Brooklyn, which is a one way road. There is a bike lane on the left side of the street. I was coming up to an intersection, and there was a car on my right that I thought was going straight. The light was green, so I proceeded.

Suddenly, the car on my right turned left right in front of me on to another one way street, blocking my path so quickly that I crashed into the car. The driver claimed that he had signaled, and that I was at fault for not yielding.

In other areas, like the 8th Avenue bike lane, I know that this exact issue is controlled with lights. When the bike light is green you can cyclists straight and the cars have a red light, meaning they can't turn left. When the bike light turns to red, the cars have a green left arrow which tells them that they can go. This makes sense, but what happens when there are no bike lights? Who has to yield, to whom?

Hi everybody,

I am a happy biker.  Nothing makes me happier than to be able to get around biking, well, almost nothing.  I am thrilled at how biker friendly this town has become and is becoming all the more.  BUT, I do have a problem, besides the obvious: traffic, rude and inconsiderate drivers, bad pavement, etc.  My problem is other bikers who ride in bike lanes against the moving traffic.  I have seen accidents where bikers try to negotiate around each other coming in opposite directions and end up colliding, or almost colliding and having to ride in the traffic lane, causing problems for everyone.  I have never seen a campaign directed toward bikers that addresses this issue.  Everyday I see clueless bikers coming at me, sometimes all of a sudden after turning onto the street I am travelling, but coming right at me.  We both panic, and this drives me crazy.

Many bikers have told me that bike lanes are two way lanes.  This cannot be true.  I can't imagine the logic that would promote this understanding.  Does anyone share this frustration? 

Why should cyclists yield to pedestrians? I ride my bike every day and pesdestrians are always in my way! According to the law, you only have to yield to someone when they have the right of way, not when they are IN THE WAY. What gives?

I often find that when crossing my children, a group of anywhere from 5-30 kids ages 5-12, whether in the streets or in the park, bicyclists refuse to yield, especially the professional ones. They don't always stop at red lights or for crossing guards, and sometimes try to ride THROUGH my group. What can be done to stop this behavior?

Where in your rules does it say to use hand signals?!!

That needs to be very near the top of the list

- MH

Close the Gap
Petition for an East River Esplanade from 38-61 streets

There is no East Midtown Greenway or even a marked Avenue-based bike lane in East Midtown - nothing to keep a bicycle rider or jogger from the cars, trucks, buses and pedestrians in this most clogged part of the East Side. 
Nine Bicyclists have been killed in East Midtown from 1995-2007 and hundreds injured. 
Not a very pretty picture after a long bike ride around Manhattan! 
Just 23 blocks, some of them easily reclaimed from the FDR shoulder or from parking lots and old detours, that’s all it would take to complete the Manhattan Greenway along the scenic East River from Battery Park to 125 Street. 

This section might be constructed like the cantilevered esplanade over the Hudson River beside Riverside Park in the west 80s, and by utilizing existing pylons in the East River by the FDR tunnel from 54 Street - 59 Streets.

We should have a completed esplanade regardless:
    Of whether the United Nations extends its park, and be allowed to use it whether or not V.I.P.s come to New York

Is there a map of the bike lanes in Manhattan?

I admire the efforts of the T.A. to implement the Street Code. But pedestrians really need to sign on to this as well. All to often, pedestrians use bike lanes as sidewalks or step into bike lanes as if they don't have to worry about the bikes using them to move along the street. I'm happy to yield for pedestrians who are on a shared path, using cross walks and such. But, I'm less pleased to yield for a pedestrian who is in the wrong place. Since a cyclist can be ticketed for being on a sidewalk or in a designated pedestrain area, can a pedestrain be ticketed when they misbehave?

Do these limits mean that a bike rider might be prevented from boarding train after train because each arriving train is already carrying the maximum allowable number of bikes? Thanks, Fred