Would the existing little bike path be only for artisanal, leg-powered bikes? Electrics, too? Citi Bikes only? Left to our own devices, what we’ll create is uncertain. choire writes
Taking his son to work by bike. Photo: Getty Images A very skinny slice of bike-only pathway runs between the bloated car horror show of the West Side Highway and the still surprisingly PCB-laden Hudson River. This is how many of us travel up and down Manhattan — it’s often how I get to work.
Honestly, I love it, though I would categorize it as very active riding. But you’re in Manhattan! You should perhaps be somewhat aware of your busy surroundings! Speed is what separates us from the animals who do not use wheels! And the bike path is so, so much better than what we had before, which was nothing .Interesting concern! We’ve agreed as a society that we can’t fix the fact that we just let cars run over people all the time in New York City.
This would solve one thorny problem: A funny thing about this Hudson River Greenway bike path is that all “electric” bikes are forbidden, even as various forms of electric bikes make up about 50 percent of all the vehicles there. Levine’s proposal suggests that we should lift the fake ban on e-bikes and make the street-legal e-bikes bike-path legal. Putting us out on the street would give us a little more high-speed room.
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