Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Just to clarify, I should have said NYC policy requires you "stay in the bike lane" unless it's blocked..
That's a joke. Coincidentally, I'm in NYC now and, near as I can tell, it is a total free for all - anybody on/in anything can be anywhere going any direction at any speed. My nephew is an orthopedic surgeon here and he texted me "Yeah it’s crazy. Watch out, so many injuries we see are from the bikes hitting pedestrians…Yeah traffic cops are on every block but you can break any rules you want on a bike or car and they’ll never intervene haha"
I also wonder at how "bike" is defined here. The vast majority are heavy electric affairs with pedals that are never pedaled. The pedals must be there just to get these motorcycles classified as bicycles? It may be the real world here but whatever statistics the mayor's office pumped out eleven years ago certainly have no relevance to almost any other place I've been, or even today's NYC itself with the majority of bikes now being electric.