Marcia Kramer is hands down the worst TV reporter on any of the major stations in New York. This is not reporting. If she’s allowing a subject to charge that bike advocates (ie, a lot of people in Brooklyn) jimmied the numbers by showing up with the DOT told them to, then as a journalist Marcia owes it to her audience and her profession to allow those bike advocates to respond. She doesn’t. That’s not journalism. That’s the real advocacy here: parroting words from Marty Markowitz and a handful of wealthy patrons on PPW and passing it off as journalism.

Shame on Marcia Kramer, shame on CBS2. The street is safer now, with or without bikes riding the bike lane. Turn it into a very wide sidewalk, for all I care, just don’t let PPW go back to three lanes of speeding traffic, which is what Marty, Louise Hainline, Norman Steisel, Iris Weinshall, and I guess Marcia Kramer want.

did they take this study 3 weeks ago when there were 22 inches of snow on the ground? i have to give credit to bloomberg for giving us so many bike lanes during his administration. as a biker and brooklynite i am so thankful there has been such a huge leap in consideration on the road with the bike lanes in the last decade. it almost makes me cry. bikers want to share the road…not steal it cars are dangerous and deadly for all of us.

nyc is is one of the most bike-able cities in this nation, even in winter. this country doesn’t just need to get off it’s reliance on oil, we need to get off our reliance on cars. it is a better lifestyle, healthier, environmental and just happier. i hate hate hate being stuck in a car…it is awful. it is like prison sometimes. i’m thankful when i really need to use one on a rare occasion and drive responsibly and respectfully. and i really thank the people in transportation and urban planning who give us bikers the lanes that tell drivers that we get a piece of this paved road too.

why is this guy so proud of looking like a schmuck and acting like a schmuck? And why has he been in that job so long? So essentially he wants to rip out a bike lane because some affluent park slopers want easier free streetside parking. That’s it. Marty is a putz as you can see in the foto.

I’m a biker and I hate bike lanes. Let me bike in the GD street so I can actually get where I need to go relatively quickly and not have to deal with tourists tooling around at .5 mph

Janette Sadik-Khan has been completely co-opted by the cycling lobby in NYC. She has simply become anti-pedestrian in her singular pro-bike focus, and should not be trusted to be considering the needs of all parties in decisions by her office. It’s a shame.

I just hope one day if this transportation head Khan needs an ambulance to take her to the hospital for an emergency it better be a two wheeler. And I bet you every cent you got it’ll take at least 4 hours to get to her. fI this wish comes true it’ll make my day.

If you read these comments you can see how the public truly feels. Whether you ride a bike or not, it’s odd to think that the problem is bike lanes. How much city real estate is devoted to cars, considering the small % of car owners. The bike lanes serve multiple purposes: they slow down traffic closer to the speed limits, which is helpful to residents and pedestrians. They provide a safe alternate environmentally friendly means to get around and get exercise, and also for parents with their kids on the bike. They provide more parking, not less (bikes don’t take up car parking spaces). And if they reduce a few parking spots, then they reduce motivation for people to drive, which means less traffic and pollution, and fewer accidents, injuries, and fatalities.

We need to grow this argument past bikes vs cars. This is really about the future of NY going the way of the future of the USA and the world. The automobile era is over, like it or not. Over the coming years there will be fewer cars, people will own fewer cars, cars will be smaller, and there will be less investment in road infrastructure. Why? Because the costs of car culture can no longer be justified in leaner times. Get used to it.

whoever the next mayor is must remove all of these bike paths and pedestrian plazas that bloomberg has installed over the past few years… every day i find more and more streets that have become more congested or difficult to DRIVE A VEHICLE ON… which is still the main purpose of a ROAD, or to find parking – because lanes have been removed to install bike lanes, and / or traffic islands where lanes used to be..

Marty stop shoveling the –it and concentrate on the snow. There is enough room for the cars and bikers. Cops ticket you if you ride on the sidewalk and with specified lanes bikers can be in danger. God can’t believe how selfish everyone has become!

Marcia Kramer is one of the worst, high-profile reporters on television. Marty is essentially calling a boatload of people LIARS! And yet she allows that to go completely unchallenged.

She has two major facts incorrect in her story. Unlike her I was actually at the CB6 meeting and heard the words that NYC DOT reps said.

#1 – The DOT did say that it would cost 3x the cost to rip up the lanes. However, they never gave that as a reason they weren’t removing them. The reason they are not is because they have been a success.

#2 – Relying on Marty Markowitz’s lies and illogical rants – let us assume that advocacy groups did know the day the DOT was going to conduct their study (which I am sure they did not, but IF they did) there would be no way for bike riders to know about the secret camera the anti-bike group had set up. So why would riders deliberately avoid one part of the bike lane and then ride past where NYC DOT was counting. It is so preposterous.

I though CBS was not FOX news. Apparently, they can lie as much as they like these days.

Like anyone is going to believe this group who, despite their name, is against bike lanes. If their figures are not outright lies probably counted on a day when it was pouring rain or 10 degrees outside.

The people who liive in Park Slop aren’t Brooklyn. They are yuppies and a joke. They should go back to whatever city they came from they are the same people that didn’t want the new nets arena. All of Brooklyn I know wanted that. These people think they live in Paris. It’s disgusting. . There shouldn’t be any bike lanes. Parking is worse then ever in the slope because of this move by bloomberg.

The last time Marty was on a bike they had to get a specialist to remove the seat from his ass. Although you should have heard him before the lobotomy.

Is that Marty Markowitz or Howdy Doody on steroids?

Marty does not realized that all his constituents already went to Fort Lauderdale for the winter. He should save his breath till the Summer.

Anyway, his view of the world is from the back window of the SUV that he gets driven around in. If you wanna know what it looks like just look for the one parked on the sidewalk next to Borough Hall.

Marty Markowitz is a bufoon who has no power whatsoeve. The bourough presidents office is an anachronism and should be eliminated. Markowits is not even a has been. He’s a never was.

Oddly, my comment calling out Marcia Kramer’s biased reporting on streets issues never got posted.

Forget the bike lane. Does Marty think that the DOT also tipped off drivers on the days they did their “after” speed comparisons, telling drivers to slow down? How far does Marty think this conspiracy goes? Is he that crazy to think people believe him?

The city spent an inordinate amount of money installing these bike lanes BUT THEY DON’T REMOVE SNOW FROM THEM?

Just classic.

Add to this since bike lanes have been installed, the city now should be more actively enforcing traffic rules on bicyclists – there are still cyclists riding the wrong way in bike lanes, outside the bike lane or simply ignoring the rules of the road (yes people, just because you’ve built up a head of steam doesn’t give you the right not to have to stop for a light or a pedestrian).

And the classic retort… well, they’re a boondoggle but they’ll cost three times as much if we remove them!

Classic government dysfunction in action.

Wait a sec…

CBS and Marty Markowitz claim that the DOT tipped off those bikers in order to inflate their counts, but then those bikers didn’t ride the whole length of the bike lane to President Street where Louise Hainline, Norman Steisel, Iris Weinshall, Lois Carswell, and other members of the so-called “Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes” were also counting bikes? In fact, so many conveniently forgot to ride down there that the DOT’s numbers were off by double NBBL’s? Seems highly unlikely at best and a lie at worst.

Wouldn’t you think that a whole bunch of riders would just ride that thing all day, up and down, back and forth, from one end to the other, if they had been tipped off by the DOT? Marty’s claim makes no sense. I hope he understands that he just slandered a city agency and department head.

STOP LYING MARTY!!!!!!!

bike lanes are a joke! What is this, Amsterdam in the Netherlands?

Markowitz is a joke.

Lets’ get this straight. Marty Markowitz would have us believe that the Dept. of Transportation is lying. And he wants us to believe that some half-assed data assembled by a half-dozen millionaire NIMBYs is legit?

All while, as the commenter above pointed out, children and moms and elderly rabbis are getting mowed down by cars, and Marty is silent about all that. Shame on him.

“I hope that the commissioner and the department is right. If they’re right, and in fact it causes no bottlenecks, no inconvenience, and if it works, I’ll be the first to say I was wrong. I would.” (Marty on WNYC, 4/12/10)

Marty needs to go. Publicly accusing a city agency of lying? Shame on him. He’s an embarrassment to the borough. He is clearly in favor of faster, more dangerous traffic. Still no word from him on the mother, twins, child in Williamsburg, and rabbi in Midwood who were all injured or killed by cars in January alone.