Park Slope's Ninth Street Takes Shape, Bike Lanes Already Used for Parking

If you paid attention to the surprisingly contentious Park Slope debate about installing bike lanes and other traffic calming measures on Ninth Street, then you'll recall that one of the key points of concern was that the bike lanes would put a crimp in double parking. Well, all appears to be well.

We post these photos to show two things. One is that the installation of the bike lane markings and the new traffic patterns narrowing the flow of traffic from two lanes to one is making quick progress (see below). The other is to show that the bike lanes are not an impediment to double parking. Yesterday morning, we counted four double parked vehicles (three cars and one van) in the bike lanes between Seventh Avenue and Prospect Park West. Plus one truck that was driving in the lane.


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