There’s no gentle way to say this so I’ll just say it straight out ARE YOU AN IDIOT?

Just make all the streets in Manhattan pedestrian and bike and forget the cars!

This is laughably poor journalism and remarkably uninformed editorializing. I guess if I want non-absurdist local news, I’ll have to watch other networks to get it.

I was going to write something but many people here have said it just as well as I would have. I just want to second all the comments that say Marcia Kramer is an idiot. (‘What if a TERRORIST rides a bike next to the consulate?’ Really?)

I understand that a lot of people are anti-bike because they see law breaking cyclists out there. Realize that bike culture is young in this city and will mature.

But do you really love cars that much? Cars equal traffic, pollution, waste and noise.

Bloomberg and the DOT are trying to move the city into the future. Millions of people taking individual cars to work is history. Get over it. Take a train, a bus, walk, or ride a bike.

The whole article is offensive, beginning with “bike bedlam” as the lead-in. There is no attempt at balance or even investigation. This is a new low. I happen to think these bike lanes are a great idea and long overdue, but, however you feel about them, this kind of chuckleheaded non-journalism only diminishes the debate.

Let me know how those bike lanes work out this winter. Or as soon as it gets cold,rains or is just a bad ozone day this August…..lol

We need that cop who took down that crazed bicyclist and was fired for it. I want to make him the new bicycle safety traffic director or better yet the new Transportation Director for NYC.

Ha! I think the real question is WHAT WAS MARCIA KRAMER THINKING? Hahahahaha! This ‘report’ is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. I don’t even live in NYC anymore, but this was compelling enough to comment. What if the man on the bike was a terrorist? Well, what if the terrorist is walking, or riding a motorcycle or was in a car or truck? And of course, the proportion of cyclists to vehicles will remain low as long as vehicles are allowed to ensure riding a bike in what would otherwise be an ideal environment (as well as the most environmentally friendly choice) is a terrifying, dangerous proposition. And of course it takes a special kind of genius to think the best solution to problems, you know, like traffic congestion in limited spaces and pollution, is to not change a thing. I really wonder who the biggest moron is in this: Kramer, the editor/producer who put this intensely stupid piece on the air, or the station that employs them. Truly astonishing. But hilarious! Keep up the good work!

This woman should be fired from her job for sheer stupidity.

If Marcia Kramer devoted her energies to helping the needy instead of fomenting fake outrage over non-issues, the world would be a better place. By the way, Marcia, you can fit a lot more explosives into a car than you can on a bike, so by your logic we should just ban automobiles outright.

A Second Avenue [car] lane is next to the Israeli consulate, leaving many wondering what would happen if a man [in a car] were a terrorist.

How did Marcia Kramer get this job? It sure wasn’t by being a diligent journalist or a competent writer.

this woman is a moron. her logic is it’s dangerous to rides bikes now, so adding a bike lane increases that risk? and a terrorist threat? what if someone, um, walked by the israeli embassy with a bomb? i don’t have high expectations for local news, but this is like something from the onion.

The city needs to widen the sidewalks to accommodate the slow-waddling obese.

I think they should take out the sidewalks. We all know terrorists spend most of their time perambulating with impunity.

As far as terrorism goes, I’m actually more worried about the proposed tank lane.

Terrorists? Shameless fear-mongering. Cars kill 35,000 people in the US every year, and hundreds of those people are NYC pedestrians. Watch the clip and you can see her edging out into the street and almost getting hit by a cab herself.

Even people who write articles and post messages attacking bicyclists and efforts to make urban bicycling safer know deep down that an world where able bodied solitary individuals go about their affairs in multi-ton polluting vehicles is not sustainable.

I think you’re all missing the bigger problem here: First the militant leftist zealots add bike lanes, next they’ll be adding Segway lanes. Can you imagine how much damage a Segway terrorist could do? Welcome to the new America.

The OKC bomber was not riding a bicycle, the first WTC bomber was not riding a bicycle, the Dallas bomber was not riding a bicycle… The only cases to “terrorists” using bicycle bombs I have been able to find were people attacking checkpoints in war zones, which is why I used quotes around the word “terrorists”. It actually reduces the ability of terrorists to attack the Israeli compound by installing a bike lane as it provides an additional buffer space to reduce the impact of a bomb.

10% bikes/ 90% cars – did you forget the walkers? There are 6 times as many people on foot and bike as cars, but you’d rather keep trying to shove more cars into the city. The cars that KILL people every week, and pollute the air.

Oh dear, a little space is used to make it easier and safer for people that don’t drive. There isn’t any more room for cars unless you make 1st Avenue a highway – we need to make it easier to get around without single passenger cars. Jesus, didn’t we go over this in the Robert Moses era?

Yeah, yeah there are a lot of asshats on bikes. But the every complaint I hear about a bike, someone DIES because of a car. Ticket the bad ones, hard, bikes and cars alike.

=v= Marcia Kramer is obviously auditioning for the Onion News Network. Too bad that takes some, you know, wit.

Those bike lanes are reserved for Harleys only.

If you build bike lanes then people ride bikes and congestion goes away you morons.