+1

There needs to be a real effort to connect these routes in a logical way with a focus on transportation as well as recreation. The routes don't have to all be dedicated bike lanes but dumping people off onto a major artery choked with double parked trucks and bus stops is just plain dumb. The "bike route" signs on 2nd Ave south of 59th Street are a lesson in the absurd. The focus needs to be city-wide, in all the boroughs.

For commuting I want better paths through the city, including some dedicated north-south and east-west MUPs or separated bike lanes that run through midtown and downtown.

For recreation I'd love to see a real greenway/MUP connection from Manhattan through the Bronx to the southern tip of the South County Rail Trail... Manhattan to Mahopac in Putnam county... by bike via MUP most of the way. The South & North County Trails in Westchester are totally worth linking up to.

Wait... while I'm on this fantasy kick. Would they please enclose the cars/trucks on the 59th Street Bridge so I won't have to inhale their exhaust every day? I must have gotten used to it, but after I took my wife on the path for a walk one day she asked me how I could put up with the fumes... since then I've noticed the stench again. I think I'm going to start wearing a respirator and maybe some witty anti-pollution t-shirt...