'I really wanted to love this bike lane.' DianaBudds writes about how the new Brooklyn Bridge bike lane is a hard-won, symbolic victory, but just the tiniest of steps in a journey that needs a leap
Photo: New York City Department of Transportation Ever since it opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge has been a marvel. Its two soaring 277-foot-tall limestone and granite towers, each with two Gothic arches, may be the most iconic emblems of the bridge, but what I’ve appreciated most up close are the steel cables and wires that were engineered to support the roadway.
I really wanted to believe de Blasio’s statement. I really wanted to love this bike lane. But after a few trips over the path — one on its opening night and the others Wednesday morning and evening — the words felt like doublespeak. Taking a lane away from cars and giving it to bikes, as much of a hard-won, symbolic victory as it is, feels like the tiniest of steps in a journey that needs a leap.
The next day, I rode over the bridge during the morning commute, and I appreciated the less-steep grade. The lane was busier than the night before, with commuters, people out for exercise , and some delivery workers on motor scooters. When a man pulling a boxy cargo trailer — something that looked like it was for deliveries — came toward me, I noticed that the trailer was wider than his side of the lane.
Photo: New York City Department of Transportation But it wasn’t the closeness of the lanes or the trickiness of the Manhattan connection that got to me the most. It was the whole experience: all about utility but needing more care. The lane may be practical in comparison to the old system, but it’s still bothersome. Yes, I was no longer constantly at risk of hitting a gawking tourist, but I had lost the magic of riding on the Brooklyn Bridge. I even missed the rumbly wood planks.
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