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Friday, December 11, 2009

News DoT Paints Over South Williamsburg's DIY Bike Lane

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM

Environmental action group Time's Up is organizing a funeral procession for the unjustly removed 14 blocks of Bedford Avenue bike lane on Sunday, and just to help give the "New Orleans-style" parade a tangible sense of loss, the city's Department of Transportation has painted over the lane that bike activists repainted earlier this week.

Gothamist reports that the sandblasted and re-applied lane was painted over with black paint at some point last night or early this morning, making this fairly short and uncomplicated stretch of bike lane probably one of the most costly and troublesome in the city. Let's see how many times this absurdly childish re-painting contest goes back and forth before someone at the DoT figures out that they just need to put the lane back in.

Tags: bike lanes, nyc biking, South Williamsburg, Department of Transportation, when city agencies behave like children

        
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They left the right line of the bike lane intact? WTF is the point of getting rid of it then? I love this city but the DoT can go straight to hell.

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Posted by Rob Tumas on 12/11/2009 at 3:20 PM

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