On our way out of Brooklyn on Saturday, Hepcat and I noticed that the new 9th Street bike lane is painted on the asphalt between 5th and 6th Avenues.
GL says: Not to worry, folks. You can still double park. And he’s got the pictures to show it.
We post these photos to show two things. One is that the installation
of the bike lane markings and the new traffic patterns narrowing the
flow of traffic from two lanes to one is making quick progress (see
below). The other is to show that the bike lanes are not an impediment
to double parking. Yesterday morning, we counted four double parked
vehicles (three cars and one van) in the bike lanes between Seventh
Avenue and Prospect Park West. Plus one truck that was driving in the
lane.