Dear Mayor
I sincerely believe that you should take up a bike, it is healthier and you can have all the room you desire to travel in any direction and you do not even have to pay attention to the stop signs or stop lights. You would have a hell of a time until you ran over someones grandmother , mother, sister, brother ,father, young child. It happens all the time why stop the fun for the cyclist.

from a NY Physician

So idiotic. The city has no money and the Mayor is busy adding bike lanes that worsen traffic, make the streets more dangerous and cater to a tiny minority of obnoxious (and smelly) New Yorkers.

This city's streets were designed to accommodate horses, then cars - never bicycles. If you are going to try and change that, then you must make fundamental changes to the city so you don't gum up the entire works for the few people who prefer pedal-power.

Step 1 - Eliminate all street deliveries by using cargo trains on existing subway lines. Underground stations could be added where goods would be delivered then taken to the surface close to the delivery location via hand-trucks. This lessens traffic congestion and adds parking spaces. Both help to facilitate more room for cars and bicycles.

Step 2 - Steep fees/tolls for non residents to bring their cars into the city. Only city dwellers should be allowed to drive here without paying a toll. There seem to be tolls everywhere else, why not NYC?

Step 3 - Accountability - If we're using taxpayer money to create these new bike lanes, the bicyclists must adhere to the rules. To enforce them, any bicyclist who uses their bike for commercial purposes should be forced to obtain (and pay for) a license and registration, complete with scan-able RFID tags so these marauders can be identified as they speed away from their latest kill. Also, the people who employ these bicyclists should have to carry insurance in the event that one of their employees smashes into an old lady while doing his job.