On Jun 10, 2:15*pm, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Jun 10, 11:05*am, Jay Beattie wrote:





On Jun 10, 7:47*am, Frank Krygowski wrote:

A video on the joys of bike lanes. (And on being ticketed for not
using one.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

- Frank Krygowski

He can beat the ticket -- the requirment of riding in a bike lane is
not a suicide pact:

(1) Bicycle riders to use bicycle lanes. Whenever a usable path or
lane for bicycles has been provided, bicycle riders shall use such
path or lane only except under any of the following situations:
(i) When preparing for a turn at an intersection or into a private
road or driveway.
(ii) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including but not
limited to, fixed or moving objects, motor vehicles, bicycles,
pedestrians, pushcarts, animals, surface hazards) that make it unsafe
to continue within such bicycle path or lane.

You don't have to run in to barriers, trucks, pedestrians, etc.,
although I do admire the stunt skills. -- Jay Beattie.

It sounds like he could have beaten the ticket. *Will it still be
beatable if he's already made the mistake of sending in the money?

And BTW, being able to beat an unjust ticket only slightly reduces the
huge inconvenience to a cyclist. *We shouldn't have to spend time and
money to battle false charges.

We need true and practical rights to the road, not merely to the
roadside ghetto.

Typically, you send in the money and make a plea -- it is considered
"bail." If you don't contest the charge, you forfeit the money or
some part of it. Some functionary somewhere decides the fine.

Yes, it is a PITA, but that can be changed with a little legislation.
In many places (as you know) the requirement or riding in the bike
lane does not apply if you are traveling the speed of traffic, which
you can probably do anywhere in midtown NYC. I've driven on Manhattan
but never ridden there, so I don't know what it's like, but I would
think that you would want to be out of traffic since it is moving so
slowly. And if you just made the roads wider, someone would park
there. I could see bike lanes being beneficial in NYC, and with a
little tweaking of the traffic laws to allow (if not already allowed)
riding in traffic at the speed of traffic, then all would be good.
-- Jay Beattie.