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New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:28AM   
from the oi,-shift! dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

It's barely been a week since New York started allowing people to go online and report vehicles blocking bike lanes, and the city has already logged more than 200 of these annoying and dangerous violations.

As predicted on CityLab, there now exists a map of illegal parking in bike lanes. Based on tips to New York's 311 app and website, the city-produced map shows alleged lane violations occurring mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn with a decent smattering in Queens. Red dots indicate situations where the police "responded to the complaint and took action to fix the condition," according to NYC Open Data. Blue ones denote where police decided "action was not necessary," where the offending vehicle had skedaddled before cops arrived, and complaints with insufficient info from tipsters.

Drivers block bike lanes because city blocks do not have designated unloading zones.

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• Re:How about parking in car lane? Re:How about parking in car lane? (Score: 3, Interesting) by number11 on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:27AM

  by number11 (1170) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:27AM (#427396)

  Seems like part of the answer is to ban private automobiles from the congested area. There are buses and subways, right? You can't do without the delivery trucks, but there are ample ways for individuals to get around without using a personal automobile. There's room for an unloading lane, one powered-vehicle lane (with pulloff spots in the unloading lane), and a bike lane.

  Yeah, it would suck. But if we tell people in the rust belt that they'll just have to move somewhere else to live and find a job, why not Manhattan? If it becomes too much hassle to have a business there, there are plenty of other places to locate your business. Anyhow, it lets you get out before the rising ocean level swamps the place.

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• Re:How about parking in car lane? (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:18PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:18PM (#427533)

  Something that would definitely help is congestion pricing [wikipedia.org], which is being used in several other cities including London and Stockholm. The idea is to use economic incentives to push people from using their cars in Manhattan to instead take a train or bus into the city.

  Anyhow, it lets you get out before the rising ocean level swamps the place.

  Too late [wikipedia.org]

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