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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 Bot on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:14PM
The idea of reporting fellow citizens to authorities for small scale violations is not really really OK with me. Oh well.
In my place I should report the cyclists who actually behave well, because lack of lights, proceeding in pairs, not dismounting when crossing the street at the stripes for walkers, wrong sense, not signaling change of direction/lane, cycling with headphones, sometimes even cycling and using the cellphone, are the norm.
I guess anyway the next step is mandating plates to cyclists so the car drivers and walkers can reciprocate. All in the name of Justice eh.
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