I’ve been trying to get back into cycling, not as an athlete — I’m no athlete — but as a commuter and for recreation.
This morning I found myself relating to issues brought up today in a New York Times’ article about Times Up! tactics and sites like MyBikeLane.com, which are responses to automobiles regularly disrespecting bike lanes.
It appears that MyBikeLane.com is, while New York City specific for now, intended to scale and eventually target other cities as well.
Here in Washington I’ve had similar experiences, albeit in less harried or intense surroundings than what I know exist in Manhattan and the commercial centers of the other boroughs of New York City. It is still unnerving to be forced to quickly pass into the main lane of traffic because of a vehicle sitting idle in the bike lane.