> since drivers run over the flex posts
New York City's solution to that was to replace some of the flex posts with anti-terrorism bollards which will stop a runaway truck. Not all of the posts. Just enough of them to get the message across.
New York City's solution to that was to replace some of the flex posts with anti-terrorism bollards which will stop a runaway truck. Not all of the posts. Just enough of them to get the message across.
The bollards went up shortly after.
[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2022/begins-work-to-hard...
The Transportation Alternatives tracker[1] tells you how much they are falling short of their promises.
And of course without bollards, cars can still enter the bike lanes at intersections[2]. I'm happy for progress where we get it, but it's hard to lean into my optimism when you know that every time the city announces it will do something, it will take 3x as long to do 1/3 of what they promised.
[1]https://projects.transalt.org/bikelanes
[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/yaqfwd/pr...