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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by Eric_WVGG on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:14PM (#21380464)
I don't have any numbers, but my impression is that it's mostly turns, although there's also a big problem with people getting "doored" (which would easily be solved by putting bike lanes between parking lanes and sidewalks, instead of between parking lanes and automobile lanes).

I was surprised to learn that left turns account for "more than twice as many serious injuries and fatalities as right turns." https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/leftturnstudy.shtml

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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by rossitter on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:52PM (#21382118)
> I was surprised to learn that left turns account for "more than twice as many serious injuries and fatalities as right turns."

This may be because bike lanes are placed on the left side of major one-way avenues in Manhattan: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8005797,-73.9618377,3a,75y,1...

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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by comicjk on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:33PM (#21380671)
I signal turns with my arm when biking, especially left turns. Otherwise I would be slowing and moving unpredictably, which doesn't seem safe. Unfortunately this isn't common behavior in NYC - even cars often fail to signal their turns, let alone cyclists.
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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by schrodinger on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:21PM (#21380532)
> putting bike lanes between parking lanes and sidewalks

This is how all of the new NYC bike lanes work!

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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by rossitter on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:51PM (#21382111)
On major avenues in Manhattan, but not necessarily on side streets[0] or in other boroughs[1].

[0] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7740039,-73.9587169,3a,75y,1...

[1] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6757116,-73.9532197,3a,75y,2...

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