The signs say “Park,” what do you expect people to do?
To be fair… I feel like “buried under a metric shit ton of snow” to be extenuating circumstances. How are Canada’s bike lanes when it gets this bad? Because I’m not sure how to solve the “plow makes piles of snow” problem
Some bike lanes are prioritized for plowing. It’s easier when the bike lanes are separated from the road.
In the regions that have proper bike lanes they plow them with little atv things. Throw on some studded tires and it ends up being safer than the rest of the year when its bad enogh for drivers to stay home. Sadly the routes were only completed after I moved to an area much shittier to bike in so I never got to try out the fixes to my former wipeout zone
In Canada a lot of bike lanes are just shitty painted lines on the shoulder and turn into the snow bank all winter.
like, a bike lane will be “we painted the solid white line three feet out from the curb, mind the grates and trash”.
Yeah, that’s what we have out here at best.
Montreal has a ton of separated, two-way bike lanes.
K-W is toying with them, but hasn’t really committed yet.
Now, painted bike gutters is what you get the most of, by far…
If there’s not a car in the way, you can plow travel lanes. In big cities, snow is literally trucked away, so it’s not like you’d be moving the problem further up onto the sidewalk.
You’d think. I’m in the suburbs of NY, and during this last snowstorm, my neighbors and I all made sure our cars were off the streets for the plows. The plow came once, in the middle of the storm, got the middle of the road and left. Infuriating.
Same way you clear car lanes. Plow and truck the snow. Salt.
How are Canada’s bike lanes when it gets this bad?
They get plowed by these tiny plows, cute AF.
Just build parking garages on the border of the city and only allow utilities, taxis, and busses to drive…
I guess it’s okay to park on Park Avenue because it’s called Park Avenue.
cars are a plague
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He’s only been in office for what, a month? That’s not enough time to make any meaningful changes, good or bad.
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You’re right, but you’re out of line. I don’t like having to remove correct information because something else about the comment was rule-breaking, so please try to rebut without personal attacks next time.
Or, ya know, report the misinformation.
That’s exactly how I felt reporting it — debated it a bit but the personal insult was so unnecessary…
If this is true,
I’m not sure what could be unbelievable about this. The date of the last snowfall in NYC is pretty easy to track down, and you could pretty easily find the place on Street View and see if it matches the photo. This photo was taken from the crosswalk across Park Ave at 70th. Facing southwest, incidentally.
About the only thing you can’t easily confirm in the photo is the date it was taken, but looking at the dirt level on the snowbanks and the state of the melt/thaw cycle of the slush on the road, I’d say it’s easily been a week since the snow in that photo fell. So even if it wasn’t taken after this current snowstorm (which would be a weird thing to lie about), it’s certainly plausible that it was taken a week or so after some snowstorm.
I’m not the OP (I don’t even live in NYC). It took me about ninety seconds to figure all of that out.
proves a ton about the new Mayor selling out.
He’s made remarkable progress, actually. Every news article about him is something along the lines of “Mamdani fulfills another two campaign promises before lunch.” It’s been pretty remarkable to watch. Again, I’m not a New Yorker, so all of this is just the news that’s made it to me; the reality may well be even greater.
New York City is huge, though, with a lot of problems; and he’s been in office for five weeks (one of which seems to have been fully dominated by a state of emergency). You can’t fix everything in a city of that size even in four years, let alone five weeks. And it seems like most of the problems he’s been working on so far have been more directly impactful to people’s survival; stuff that’s lower on Maslow’s hierarchy.
If he puts up a few months with no meaningful wins, or does something clearly corrupt, then maybe I’ll start considering him a sellout. But in the meantime, I’d say he’s earned a significant amount of goodwill.
