Streets are designed car-first, with a bike lane added as afterthought. Good cycling infrastructure requires completely separate "cycling highways", a radical intersection redesign, and actually creating areas where cars are second-rate citizens - if at all present. I am simply not seeing that in NYC yet.
But please walk me through your logic though - cyclists don't use the existing infrastructure that the city built them because it doesn't yet rise to some level of what is deemed necessary? Is that it? Does that make any sense?
What does "_bike infrastructure_" even mean? Is that made up punctuation supposed to imply some meaning?
>"Good cycling infrastructure requires completely separate "cycling highways", a radical intersection redesign, and actually creating areas where cars are second-rate citizens - if at all present. I am simply not seeing that in NYC yet."
I guess you haven't seen the "cycling highway" that parallels the actual West Side Highway? It's called the Hudson River Greenway and it's 11 miles of protected(concrete bollards) and dedicated cycling lanes. How about the dedicated Brooklyn Bridge bike lane. [1] Or the new secure bike storage pods they already started rolling out?[2] I guess you just haven't seen any of these yet?
And for areas where are cars are second rate citizens I guess you haven't seen The Flatiron or the stretch of Broadway between Madison Sq Park and 30th Street or Herald Square or Broadway between 14th and the Flatiron? The Meatpacking District? All of these are car-free designated pedestrian zones.
[1] https://gothamist.com/news/new-brooklyn-bridge-bike-lane-imm...
[2] https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/awesome-bike-parking-po...
I'd love not to be on the sidewalk, it tends to slow me way down (pedestrians that I don't want to hit).
I don't buy that at all. New York City has substantial bike infrastructure and all of that egregious and law-breaking behavior is still rampant.
I would even say the level of disregard couldn't be more flagrant. You can see ebike riders riding on the sidewalk right next to the protected bike line or see them riding in the dedicated red bus lane when the protected green bike lane is clearly visible on the same street and has cyclists visibly using it. Despite having protected lanes that follow the direction of traffic, ebikes will go the wrong way down that bike lane. They regularly leave the protected bike lane to go ride out in the middle of traffic and almost never stop at traffic lights and weave through pedestrians using the cross walk.