Monday, May 23, 2011
Art / News Czech Artist Has Solution for Bike Lane-less Brooklyn Cyclists
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:28 PM
The Brooklyn bike lane wars have claimed many victims, most notably a section of the Bedford Avenue bike lane in South Williamsburg, planned bike lanes on Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill and a bike lane on Bay Ridge Parkway between Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, but Czech artists Vladimir Turner and Ondrej Mlady may have a solution for Brooklyn cyclists seeking safety on the road: the Safety First self-projected bike lane.
It doesn't look especially safe, and obviously there's no buffer, but the handlebars-mounted projection offers added visibility and presumably some kind of false sense of security from being inside a completely unprotected lane. But the real questions is: would it help keep South Williamsburg school buses at a distance?
(Animal)
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