There is now a separate bike lane just off the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge! This allows me to skip the suicidal bus/bike lanes that go through downtown Brooklyn and go home without added stress. Officially it's called the Sands Street bike lane but I think we can abbreviate that to "smooth awesomeness." New York now has about 170 miles of painted bike lanes and the network is thankfully continuing to grow. This does not mean that bike lanes are free of opening doors, parking taxis, or Chinatown grocery carts (Im talking about the Grand St. bike lane with that last one) Apparentely putting in a bike lane and making people understand that its...you know.. for bikes is more complicated than it might seem. You would think that the little figure on the bicycle would be pretty obvious but I think some people see it as more of a creative interpretation of Man with Cart or Man Kicking Two Round Dogs.
Googling "bike lane asshole" will give you plenty more samples of what I'm talking about.
we've only got like 14 miles of bike path in boston, and frankly I'm not sure where 10 miles of it is... That said, we have the same problem with people not understanding the little bicycle guy in the street. I like to think of it as "guy jumping two traffic transoms into the street, parcour-style".
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