Agree 100 % with Alee. I love riding my bike on the Hudson Parkway but it can be dangerous. Enforcement is definitely needed. — A2 on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Fantastic! Bikes are the future of cities. In this respect, we need to learn from Europe. Some personal experience... I cycled from Chambers to mid-town on the Westside bike lane yesterday morning. Around 9am it's mostly New Yorkers going about their business. E-bikes like mine (VanMoof), Citibikes, road-bikes, e-scooters with a parent/kid and e-scooters with people in full business attire. There were a few of the more high-powered delivery e-bikes which I agree should be on the road. The bike lane is very busy and all the different speeds mean lots of overtaking. So moving the e-bikes/scooters to a dedicated lane makes a lot of sense. Just as expanding highways encourages more cars, expanding bike lanes encourages more bikes. Take a look at the bike superhighways in London. Personally I bought my VanMoof during the pandemic and it has been life-changing. No more subways and few Ubers. I now go to Brooklyn more frequently with the new bridge lane. The new innovations in e-bikes means that cycling is far more accessible and a real alternative to public transport. — JP on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

I haven’t but I’ve been hit by a car in NYC and my guess that that’s a lot worse than “narrowly escaping” being hit by a bike. — Cd on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

I am very glad to read all these comments and know that there are sensible, reasonable people in the community. These type of comments are usually drowned out by the usual fascists who control the local communities, pushing ever more "progressive" ideas that usually have terrible unintended consequences. And the people who champion the ideas are conveniently gone by the time the damage becomes evident. — Frank H on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Martre's office never replies to anything. I've sent so many emails on various topics and it's a black hole. It's ridiculous. I'm unsure who he thinks he represents or what he is even doing. He and his team are extremely bad at their jobs. — CS on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Ebikes, scooters, mini-motocycles, bicycles should be required to register with some agency and have a plate and pay a fee for all this construction. And they should be held to the same speed limit standards that Big Brother is applying to cars (24/7 speed cameras). I work near a bike land and have to cross it numerous times a day. I don't know if there is a bigger collection of jerks than the cyclists on the bike lanes. — Frank on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Let's not forget the e scooter riders on the bike path. The tiny little signs put up along the path about no electric vehicles are usually covered by tree branches and are ineffective. I have complained numerous times about lack of enforcement by police, park employees regarding motor scooters, e bikes and scooters using the path and have heard so many ridiculous reasons why nothing is done from all of these agencies. The city keeps pushing bike usage but never brings up licensing of e vehicles or enforcement of safety rules for riding bikes, ebikes, scooters and motor scooters. — KS on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

So is GrubHub, but that is not the point. The original commenter wrote, "your takeout delivery of caviar bumps". A caviar bump is apparently "a dollop of fish roe licked from the area of one’s hand between thumb and index finger" per Bon Appetit. (See https://www.bonappetit.com/story/martinys-bar-caviar-bump-mannequin) — James on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Caviar is a food delivery app. — Kelly on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Glad they brought the subject of bikes up at least...bikers have to be held accountable and money should go into enforcing the rules. How many of you have narrowly escaped being hurt by bikers who are on the sidewalks, going the wrong direction in the streets or paying no attention to traffic lights? — CB on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Thank you for that reference. I was also thinking of this point. Perhaps the plan was indeed intended to work in harmony with congestion pricing, since there should be less traffic in the city anyway with congestion pricing...so less need for the lane. — Marcus on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Has anyone stopped to think about the potential overlap of this project, if it goes through, with the Battery Park resiliency work? The blocks between Chambers and Franklin would be under double construction! Sounds like a nightmare to me. — Anonymous on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

James how do we complain about the double-bike-lane project and get Levine and Marte to stop pushing this bad idea? — Leo on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Oh, trust me, I have. I have over 30 complaints filed. I've even escalated to DOB. That's why I sent an email to Marte's office (with video).. No one does anything about it. — B.Thompson on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

100% agree with all of this. — Lisa on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Complain about noise from after hours construction here: https://portal.311.nyc.gov/sr-step/?id=81e4b6d8-5113-ed11-b5cf-0003ff8649f1&stepid=93e729ba-3e47-e811-a834-000d3a33bdbd — james on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

I agree with many of the commenters here. I think enforcement of current laws would be a great start. I'm all for fewer cars, but not to the detriment of pedestrians and spending millions on something we didn't ask for. I walked by this press conference and wondered, "Oh, what is that about" before getting distracted by a cycler zooming by me (and me yelling for them to get off the sidewalk, haha).. on the pedestrian side.. It also makes me wonder with so many here (and this is just a few people, but) against this idea; who thought it up? And why are representatives like Marte behind it. If his constituents don't want it, why is he using time, energy, and other resources supporting it? Why hasn't his office used some of that to respond to my complaint of after-hours construction with no after-hours permits? — B.Thompson on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

1. The Braess paradox is an outgrowth of the Nash Equilibrium. That said, it is not a proven universal causality. Reducing a traffic lane can improve things; it can also make them horribly worse. 2. Ironically, genius John Nash and his wife died when they were ejected from a taxi when the driver lost control on the New Jersey Turnpike. They were not wearing their seatbelts. — James on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Cocktail parties and caviar bumps -- clearly in touch with the concerns of everyday New Yorkers. — James on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

this ^ ^ ^ exactly! — Richard on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

This is INSANE! traffic on the Westside Highway is already crazy and now we want to take a lane? the existing bike lane is enough, what is this "bike traffic" story ? seriously NYC is not and will not be Barcelona or any other European city where most people bike to work. Im all for bike safety, but this is out of touch with the city reality. — Richard on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Excellent. The renown mathematician John Nash concluded that the way to reduce traffic is not to expand lanes, but to reduce them. This might offer some of the relief promised by the congestion pricing plan which seems to recede further and further into the future. I’m all for this plan. It is not clear, however, what they plan to do with the existing bike lane. — Heide Fasnacht on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

Amen to the above. Simply park a cop at the crossing at Harrison Street and ticket the dirt bikes, motorcycles running illegally on the bike path. Additionally, I'm shocked that more people aren't hurt trying to cross the bike path where it clearly says "yield to pedestrians." I'm not talking stop your bike but a slow down would be nice when you see someone trying to cross. And further down on the bike path at Warren where the bikes have a traffic light to pay attention to. The red light also means stop for them. — paul on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

So, we're going to aid the city's work to reduce congestion and reduce emissions by taking a lane from a major thoroughfare that's usually congested now both morning and afternoon? How does that work? And while e-bikes aren't allowed on the existing bike path, that doesn't mean they aren't there in great numbers already since there doesn't seem to be any enforcement at all. I really don't understand the runners/pedestrians on the bike path either since there's a parallel path with clear signage plus the much nicer walkway along the river for off-peak times. — N on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway

are you for real???? this is the newest dumb plan for NYC, let's spend millions if not billion dollars from taxpayers to add a bike lane on the HH parkway!!!! Was any research done about the amount of bike that will be riding on your new so-called lane! what about the winter? dead lane walking? and the idiot that's making a comparison to the Brooklyn bridge bike path needs to think before speaking. There are so many reasons this will become an unbelievably cost that we don't need. Will the city plan on having bikes be insured, or what using riverside drive? I'm a small business owner and i need my car for work. I want to use the subway, but I can't. This is other way for the system to abuse the people that pay your salaries. I bet every person that's planning this doesn't even ride a bike! — David Bobker on A plan to add new bike lanes to the Westside Highway