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Bike lane hardening is surely good, but this is a press release from almost two years ago that promised to harden half of the city's bike lanes, which still hasn't happened or even come close to happening. One thing you get used to, cycling in NYC, is that it doesn't mean much when the administration tells you about its ambitions: the thing you measure it by is how much it gets done.

The Transportation Alternatives tracker[1] tells you how much they are falling short of their promises.

And of course without bollards, cars can still enter the bike lanes at intersections[2]. I'm happy for progress where we get it, but it's hard to lean into my optimism when you know that every time the city announces it will do something, it will take 3x as long to do 1/3 of what they promised.

[1]https://projects.transalt.org/bikelanes

[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/yaqfwd/pr...