Project supporters outnumbered critics at last night's CB 12 hearing, but Gale Brewer, Adriano Espaillat, and Marisol Alcantara sent surrogates to attack Dyckman's new design and call for its removal.
It should go without saying that smarter parking meter rates can reduce traffic dysfunction on Dyckman. Instead, DOT might narrow the street's new bike lanes to carve out more space for people to park illegally.
Justifying their campaign to rip out the Dyckman Street bike lanes, Brewer and Espaillat recycle the same litany of objections that surface whenever a bikeway debuts in New York City.
Rodriguez tweeted that he now wants a two-way bikeway on Dyckman's north side to replace parking-protected lanes on both sides of the street. But shifting the bikeway won't solve the problems on Dyckman, which don't stem from the bike lane, but from poor curb management and parking policy.