I was down on Morton Street for a mid-day meeting, and had biked down from home along the Hudson Greenway — it reminded me of my Wall Street bike commuting days. To get to my afternoon meetings in midtown East, I tried out the bike lanes going up 8th Avenue, which are new and totally protected from traffic by a hard divider. It’s fantastic, the most safe and enjoyable city biking I’ve experienced, and a dramatic difference from any of the “bike lanes” that are just white lines painted on the asphalt (when they’re not obscured by double-parked cars). There are even traffic lights for the bikers, with those great little bike-shaped signals…
It reminded me of biking in Amsterdam in 1980, where there were separate lanes like these on each avenue. I wonder how far Amsterdam has advanced now?
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