Get Outta the Bike Lane

By on August 9, 2007 11:27 am in Brooklyn Heights

"Disorderly" pedestrians cross the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday.

Flickr BHB Photo Club pic by dietrich.

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  • eric

    You know, this thread, and the one yesterday, started specifically in reference to Wednesday’s subway shut down causing extra heavy foot traffic on the bridge, and the cyclists who refused to slow down or walk in reaction to the unusual conditions.
    Now, i see a number of cyclists complaining about tourists wandering into their lane on a Saturday.
    Tim and others: No one here is defending tourists. They shouldnt wander into the bike lane to take a picture. On a personal note, I often run over the bridge on the weekend, and not a jog goes by where I dont wince at some head-in-the-clouds tourist putting himself and others in danger.
    However, we *are* very angry at the cyclists who not only rode the bridge Wednesday, but rode it with a vengeance. Spouting curses and bad attitude; not slowing down in an obviously crisis-induced unsafe situation; and displaying the attitude that come hell or *ahem* high water, it is their god given right to bike at top speed across the brooklyn bridge!
    Simply disgusting.

  • http://adsformyself.blogspot.com Tim N.

    TThThere’s a lot of hostility because (as should be obvious) a lot of folks really, really hate us.

    As for Beavis, dude, get your facts straight (have you ever ridden on the Manhattan bridge? Didn’t think so.) before criticizing someone else’s argument. You may think it’s namecalling, but I’m just calling it as I read it, you friggin’ moron.

  • http://www.myspace.com/billyreno Billy Reno

    If the bridge collapsed, I wonder if a biker hanging from a support wire would drop his $5,000 Bianchi into the drink to save a Ped he just blew his little whistle at earlier.

    I think Lanegate is so much more entertaining than more pressing issues, like the war in Iraq and Lindsay Lohan.

    Word to your mothers.

  • http://adsformyself.blogspot.com Tim N.

    Can’t make excuses for that behavior, Eric, as a cyclist that kind of crap makes me wince. But its a long way between citing people for bad beahvior on a day when we should have all been working together and calling for a out and out bike ban.

  • Veritas

    This thread is really funny.

  • http://www.myspace.com/billyreno Billy Reno

    This is a matter easily settled in the Octogon.

  • eric

    [quote]
    But its a long way between citing people for bad beahvior on a day when we should have all been working together and calling for a out and out bike ban.
    [/quote]
    Agreed.

  • Ratz

    I wish the days of beating the cyclist for their bikes on the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge would come back. I think if more people knew how much their frames and gear cost, they would be ripped from them and sold on ebay in a matter of minutes.

    EATME!!

  • joe schmoe

    It is so esay to choose a picture and to say whatever you want. Most of the disorderly pedestrians are tourists. And believe me there are plenty of bikes riding the BB and we should be able to. I’d rather close a car line for more non car traffic.

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