Not the first SCF filing showing cars butting into the bike lane. Seems like it would be a better use of city funds to put up a physical barrier than to chase parking violations.

@tripst3r Chasing parking violations generates revenue.

If they actually do it, but at least on SCF the parking violation reports are mostly closed with "Did not find violators." So the city makes no money in that case and also spends money sending someone to look.

Well, the privilege of bicycling enthusiasts is not as high on their list of priorities as bicycling enthusiasts want it to be.

This, directly across the street is impassable to someone in a wheelchair - a violation of Federal law. I watched someone help someone get across it a few days ago.

Please prioritize the inconvenience of people who are ABLE to ride bicycles and respond to one person encroaching a foot into their lane by directing infrastructure expenditures towards enhancing their privilege and not towards compliance with Federal law.

These two things are not incompatible, and in fact are companion issues. New Haven has far to go in making downtown an area easily accessible to all the people who aren't moving around in 2+ tons of metal. Cyclists are some of those people, as are people in wheelchairs. If the city is going to put in bike lanes (as they should), they need to maintain them for safe cycling. If the city is going to adapt to multiple forms of mobility including wheelchairs, they need to maintain the adaptations as well as the legacy infrastructure for wheelchair users. We're on the same team here.

This gentleman is riding his wheelchair in the new bike lane on Wall St. because the city did not remediate impassable ADA violations on the same access route. (Federal law requires that "up to 20%" of a project's cost must be spent on accessibility. It spent zero. It did the same on Trumbull and other streets.) OMG. Someone parked in your lane. Spend money this way.

We're not on the same team. I'm on his. You're all on yours asking for more enhancements to your privilege.

This is Alders Sabin and Guzhnay and the Mayor celebrating discriminating against that guy and putting his life at risk to serve themselves and New Haven's bicyclists.

We're on the same team?

@David chill we are on the same team. Just because we want safe bicycle infrastructure doesn't mean we don't also think the sidewalk should be fixed.

You're not thinking about it. You're ignoring it and only you're doing things for yourselves. OMG. Someone parked in our lane! Spend money here. Enhance our privilege.

How are we ignoring it? (And is "we" @revolutionizetransportation and me or a larger group?) How does safe cycling equate to unsafe wheelchair use?

Where are the SCF tickets for the Wall St problems? I will gladly support them.

For the record, if the city misspent federal funds on Wall St by ignoring ADA requirements, that's terrible.

You(New Haven's bicyclists) are ignoring it by ignoring it. You folks are doing what White parents did in the south. There is nothing wrong with advocating for better heating systems and bathrooms in a public school. There is something wrong with advocating for that while some kids go to schools with woodstoves and outdoor plumbing. OMG. Someone encroached a foot into our privilege. Spend money to fix that problem.

From one SCF ticket you can tell that I'm a segregationist? You know everything I do in my life about disability advocacy or lack thereof? Must be hard to live with those superpowers; I'll leave you alone from here on out.

I wasn't addressing you personally. Get over yourself.

Please install these signs along all this and all other bike lanes in the city.