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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.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 16 2016, @01:00PM
We don't have to do anything that drastic. We already have lots of preexisting potential loading/unloading zones. They're called fire hydrants. Almost none of them are used on a daily basis for fire suppression; they do, however, take up that space on a daily basis, 24 hrs/day. Meter them in 5- or 10 minute increments, linked with a driver's smartphone, such that if the hydrants are needed for fire suppression the driver is alerted and given 3 minutes to move; the alerts can be sent out for hydrants adjacent to locations where fires are reported automatically, so that they're clear by the time the fire trucks arrive.
Washington DC delenda est.