Peeps,

in regards to posting pictures of vehicles parked in bike lanes, just wanted to tell you ... already on it. After being immensly frustrated at the amount of times I have had to bike around people parked in the bike lane, or dodge drivers using the bike lane as a turn lane, I decided that I was going to build a site to photodocument these parking violations. I have already registered mybikelane.com and am well under way into some development (gave me a good opportunity to do some web dev work on the side as well). I hope to launch a pretty rough version of the site w/in the next 2 to 3 weeks, though my schedule is hardly set in stone given I am working on this in the evenings and on weekends, and only then when I am willing to sit inside at a computer (much more fun to be out on the bike).

In any rate, I am building:

- multiple city sites: nyc.mybikelane.com, sf.mybikelane.com, etc. (will launch w/ a limited set and add more as demand calls for) that all live under the main www.mybikelane.com
- ability for members to upload a photo, description, location (crosstreets), city, and license plate of offending vehicle to the site
- ability to see a nice google or yahoo map of where violations have occurred
- ability to see a map and list of infractions by a given license plate
- eventually, I would like to add in ability to immediately kick off a complaint to: police, FedEx/UPS/DHL/etc (to ***** about their drivers), MTA, etc

I have already started taking pictures of cars/trucks/buses/cops parked in the bikelane, and let me tell you, nothing moves them out of the way faster than a biker taking a picture of their car parked illegally. When I ask people to move, they cuss me. When I take their picture, they take off (most of the time).

Anyhow, if anyone has some web design experience and wants to help me out w/ this, I would love to hear from you (PM me). I want this to be a free resource to photo-document the BS we have to put up w/ in commuting/biking in the city.

greg