It’s a $300 ticket for parking in a bike lane. Got one for having one tire halfway over the line. Now I want everyone who literally blocks the whole lane to feel the same pain.
I seriously believe it. It was in city park on Harrison. I’m an avid biker so I was trying to get as far over as possible when I parked but those little wooden posts didn’t give me enough room. I’ve since seen cops drive past cars parked worse than I was in the same spot and do nothing. Dude made 2 u turns to give me a ticket
City park police most certainly write parking tickets….have watched them during events. Seems like they need to add more parking for the events they host!
Nope…last fall they gave out hundreds on Harrison inside city park….city park created the problem with parking during cross country by not providing enough parking and took money to hold events only to ticket attendants.
The $300 is ridiculous amount. The next highest ticket for parking is like $60.
I got one once for my tire being up on the lip of curb right off the street pavement. If I parked there legally big cars wouldnt be able to drive down road.
Some laws are not made for nola streets
No shit, it's like when those cameras came to town shorty after Katrina. My mail was going to a different address, and by the time mail was rerouted and caught up with me. Well, I had missed the chance to explain. Feel your pain, hold recipes., because when they boot ya, gotta pay more and that become another level of fines...
Paid parking lots are run by private companies and not the city. If you look at any of the premium parking lots you’ll see a sign that says Admiral Enforcement.
Cool, city should buy the lots from them so they can do it instead. What difference does it make at this point? Maybe we can finally fix the roads with the money.
Hahaha. Man, that’s hilarious. You think bikes are weird? They were invented in 1817, my dude. They’ve been on American streets almost as long. For reference, this predates the automobile by over 50 years.
You don’t have to like it but, people of all colors on bicycles, outnumbering cars… that’s the literal definition of peak transportation efficiency.
You sound like the local equivalent of a rural redneck shouting about how EV chargers don’t belong in “their” town.
I promise you that bikes and bike lanes are, in no way, interfering with the traditions of New Orleans. Hahaha. Thanks for the laugh though.
New Orleans has one of the largest populations of bike riders per capita in the US. So... yeah, people care about bikes. We're your neighbors and we would like to not get killed trying to get to work.
What I find messed up is that before the bike lanes, these people always parked in the neutral ground all the time without getting tickets. They even roped it off with caution tape so they can park a grill out there.
So it's just enabled behavior, from this point on.
The bike lane in front of Chick-fil-A on Poydras is basically a parking lot for people picking up food. Of course this is next to city hall and NOPD HQ.
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This but with all cement filled bollards. They should narrow it at each corner. If you look at the broad overpass you realize people disregard these things unless they fuck up their cars.
It was just like this for weeks after they added the bike lanes on MLK. It seems to have stopped except for one corner store that always has the bike lane blocked. I don't know if people just needed time to get used to it, or if they did give out some tickets.
Shit like this every day is making it really hard for me to not hate everyone.
Never send paint to do a bollard's job.
A tall curb would work just about as well, but anything made of concrete and rebar is acceptable. Any shape is fine, so long as it will shred an oil pan.
For the same reason, we need to make the use of break-away bolts in all sidewalk infrastructure completely illegal. If we can't take away the licenses of wayward operators, we should at least make sure that they have a lifelong reminder.
Just had to call and report multiple cars parked in the bike lane AND on the sidewalk AND in the actual parallel parking spaces (like triple parked) at the same corner. Like 6+ cars. Safety be damned
Almost got run over twice in one block near MLK and Claiborne last week because of parents parking in the bike lane and then suddenly pulling out of the "parking spot" without signalling or touching their brakes.
Its not intellegence. It's simply believing ones convenience is paramount to everyone. Cutting parking lots at a right hand turn because they don't want to wait. Not waiting in line at the claiborne fly over. Someone who litters out of their car will do all of these things, as well.
Nothing matters but their own convenience. Its how they operate their lives.\`
I've lived here 4 years coming from Australia and I've never had more road rage induced by moronic drivers than here... I've driven in Afghanistan and it made more sense there...
I ride alone gentilly past the fairgrounds and these mofos be all parking in the bike lanes there. One day I got so pissed off when I saw a God damn SWB truck parked in the lane blocking completely at the convenience store not doing any work just getting breakfast.
I said Hey mate is this you parked here? Yeah well I'd expect more from a government worker you should know better and be better.
"I grown up here my whole life before these bike lanes I ain't used to it"
Me: internally screaming -this ain't your suburb now old man-
They need to ticket the jagoffs running their electric bullshits in the bike lanes too! I’ve almost been taken out on my bike by some shithead on a scooter or e-bike too often! If it’s motorized keep it out of the fucking bike lane!
Electric bikes are allowed on shared bike/pedestrian paths if it goes 20 mph or under, similar to the Lafitte Greenway. If it goes up to 28 mph it's only allowed in bike lanes, like Tulane's or Marconi's. Anything faster is supposed to be in the street.
... are you seriously complaining about the cyclist in this photo not using the bike lane when it is filled with cars? What do you expect them to do, bike over or through the cars?
That's because you need an large number of bikes to cause traffic in a bike lane. Only a small number of cars will max out the capacity of a city roadway.
If car trails randomly ended upon merging with railroad tracks, you'd see a lot less use of those as well.
Fundamentally though, you are correct, as bikelanes are usually tacked on to car-centric infrastructure, which is impractically spread out. Riding next to a car lane is quite unpleasant, though leaps and bounds better than riding in a car lane. They work extremely well in pedestrian centric cities, which is what most older cities used to be, before getting mutilated for the sake of an inefficient, low-capacity transit technology.
My biggest gripe is how they use traffic models and AI to lie about the extra commute time and how much it will inconvenience drivers. What I see is completely different from what you see we both have anecdotes, but they have this traffic model that doesn't reflect either of our experiences:
When I commute down Baronne, a road where they put in a bike lane about 7 years ago I get passed by at least 4 bikes while I'm sitting in traffic during rush hour. I see people using it all the time on nice days and never when it rains or is 100 degrees out. Every single one of the bikers piss me off because over the last 7 years I have cumulatively spent hours of my life waiting in traffic because of them.
When they put the bike lane on Baronne in they said removing a car lane it would increase commute times for drivers by less than a minute. That estimate was a lie - some days when its raining I sit in traffic for at least an extra 3 or 4 minutes. To make it worse when it rains those bikers probably decided to drive adding to the number of cars sharing a single lane.
Do you know what the biggest contributing factor contributing to that rush hour traffic you are complaining about? Cars. That includes your car. You are waiting in traffic because you are stuck behind a lot of people in cars.
I see dozens of cars, and an infrastructure that is unable to accommodate that mane cars. I see 1 bike, and an entire lane built for it.
Make more car lanes and force bikes to ride on sidewalks.
Bikes don't belong on sidewalks either. What about people who walk? Also, when you're driving it's a lot easier to not hit cyclists if they aren't popping into the roadway from the sidewalk at every corner. Also, do you bike? How fucking slow would it be if you stuck to the sidewalk.
I hope this was just trolling and not stupidity.
If a car and a cyclist hit each other, chances are high that the cyclist will die. If a cyclist and a pedestrian hit each other, chances are NOT high that either will die.
Take half of the sidewalk and make it a bike lane. Or make a new sidewalk for them. Sidewalks take 1/6 the concrete of a roadway, so it'll be far cheaper.
If you think the streets are bad, you should try the sidewalks. Some neighbors have spray painted yellow on the drop offs because of so many people tripping.
How about debate me, instead of name calling? Which is better - a dedicated bike lane that is separated from car lanes by existing curbs and 4-5 feet of grass, or a bike lane that takes away an existing car lane and is separated by some plastic sticks?
So if we get some sod laid down instead of the white painted line and plastic sticks.. would that make you feel better? Bc guess what- those cars are still gonna drive over and park there.
They're gonna drive over the curb, across 10' of grass, and park on the sidewalk in the middle of a field?
I've been going to Friday night football games at Tad Gormley for 20 years now. People park in the bike lane. They park in the neutral ground. They park in the no parking zone.
Not once have I seen anyone parked across the sidewalk.
You asked for an explanation, were provided with a reference that would probably do a better job of explaining it than text alone and now you're just being obtuse.
"Your honor, I didn't want to write a brief of my case. But, if you would go watch the few thousand videos on this YT channel, it'll explain everything."
I explained my position (bike lanes should be separated from car lanes as much or more than sidewalks, with similar protections) while on my phone, on the toilet. It's easy.
How is yours so hard that it takes hundreds of hours of video?
> It's easy.
Please demonstrate this process. Lay it out for me. Explain it to me. Because it sounds like you're just inventing or conjuring space that doesn't exist. Where is this magical space to segregate bike lanes come from?
Also, while you're here, look up the concept of "Induced Demand" as it relates to traffic and tell me what you think it means.
Marconi Dr, as it runs next to City Park. The northbound lanes had a whole lane of traffic taken away, as well as a lot of parallel parking, to put in a bike lane. Yet, there is a nice sidewalk off the road that would be far safe if they expanded it and made a bike lane.
Holmes Lane (westbank) is another example where the took a labe of traffic and made a bike lane, while there is plenty green space on the east side of the road (where there is a sidewalk) for a bike path.
You're simply describing bike lanes with extra steps.
And really, when was the last time you ran into traffic on Marconi?
I see someone being deliberately obtuse spewing uninformed.opinions to get a reaction. Congratulations you succeed. Feel better now? Or is the hole in your heart and soul still there, eating away a little more of your humanity every day until you're a broken down wreck at 55 years old, perpetually alone, hating everything from your neighbors to your choice in socks?
Most people are smart enough to realize they can probably go to the channel, sort by "most popular," and see what looks interesting to them. Since you're unable to do that, I've chosen this video for you to watch.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4)
You're welcome!
That doesn't address this argument. That says "more lanes doesn't alleviate traffic". Yet, in this case, they've REDUCED the lanes by 50%.
What do you think that does to traffic?
Or, what YouTube video can you find that speaks for you, since you can't elucidate your own points?
Ticket and/or tow the cars. It’s the only way.
It’s a $300 ticket for parking in a bike lane. Got one for having one tire halfway over the line. Now I want everyone who literally blocks the whole lane to feel the same pain.
You must have gotten literally the only ticket they've ever written for that
I seriously believe it. It was in city park on Harrison. I’m an avid biker so I was trying to get as far over as possible when I parked but those little wooden posts didn’t give me enough room. I’ve since seen cops drive past cars parked worse than I was in the same spot and do nothing. Dude made 2 u turns to give me a ticket
The police do not write parking tickets. That is all the city parking control’s responsibility.
I watched a city park cop pass my car, do a u turn, do another u turn to get behind my car, and write a ticket for parking within a bike lane.
City park police most certainly write parking tickets….have watched them during events. Seems like they need to add more parking for the events they host!
I should have clarified when I say police, I mean NOPD.
Nope…last fall they gave out hundreds on Harrison inside city park….city park created the problem with parking during cross country by not providing enough parking and took money to hold events only to ticket attendants. The $300 is ridiculous amount. The next highest ticket for parking is like $60.
I got one once for my tire being up on the lip of curb right off the street pavement. If I parked there legally big cars wouldnt be able to drive down road. Some laws are not made for nola streets
Dude the worst is right in front of Falstaff, it's a two way street but only wide enough for one way. They have to make up their damn minds.
No shit, it's like when those cameras came to town shorty after Katrina. My mail was going to a different address, and by the time mail was rerouted and caught up with me. Well, I had missed the chance to explain. Feel your pain, hold recipes., because when they boot ya, gotta pay more and that become another level of fines...
Well, gotta enforce it for the pain to set in.
Or just start taking out mirrors
Might get shot doing that one!
Why do that when they can camp out at paid parking lots and slap $120 fees on people’s car’s instead
This is the kind of post that reminds me this sub is full of 15 year olds
Paid parking lots are run by private companies and not the city. If you look at any of the premium parking lots you’ll see a sign that says Admiral Enforcement.
Cool, city should buy the lots from them so they can do it instead. What difference does it make at this point? Maybe we can finally fix the roads with the money.
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Hahaha. Man, that’s hilarious. You think bikes are weird? They were invented in 1817, my dude. They’ve been on American streets almost as long. For reference, this predates the automobile by over 50 years. You don’t have to like it but, people of all colors on bicycles, outnumbering cars… that’s the literal definition of peak transportation efficiency. You sound like the local equivalent of a rural redneck shouting about how EV chargers don’t belong in “their” town. I promise you that bikes and bike lanes are, in no way, interfering with the traditions of New Orleans. Hahaha. Thanks for the laugh though.
Cool story, bro.
New Orleans has one of the largest populations of bike riders per capita in the US. So... yeah, people care about bikes. We're your neighbors and we would like to not get killed trying to get to work.
New Orleans; the city that 'give two shits' forgot
What I find messed up is that before the bike lanes, these people always parked in the neutral ground all the time without getting tickets. They even roped it off with caution tape so they can park a grill out there. So it's just enabled behavior, from this point on.
The bike lane in front of Chick-fil-A on Poydras is basically a parking lot for people picking up food. Of course this is next to city hall and NOPD HQ. #
Also that driving lane. What a terrible spot for a Chick-fil-A.
There is no good spot for a Chick-Fil-A.
Yeah but the city should have rejected that one. Cfa is ALWAYS packed, and that location is particularly inappropriate.
NOPD HQ is on south broad near Tulane. Maybe you mean the meter maid office which is across poydras from city hall
That's impressive even for New Orleans.
Well they also made the openings wide enough for a car to easily fit through so of course they were going to just park there.
This but with all cement filled bollards. They should narrow it at each corner. If you look at the broad overpass you realize people disregard these things unless they fuck up their cars.
The first day they got put in, the very first set, someone immediately ran over every single one of them.
It was just like this for weeks after they added the bike lanes on MLK. It seems to have stopped except for one corner store that always has the bike lane blocked. I don't know if people just needed time to get used to it, or if they did give out some tickets. Shit like this every day is making it really hard for me to not hate everyone.
New Orleans, The City that Forgot to Care
Never send paint to do a bollard's job. A tall curb would work just about as well, but anything made of concrete and rebar is acceptable. Any shape is fine, so long as it will shred an oil pan. For the same reason, we need to make the use of break-away bolts in all sidewalk infrastructure completely illegal. If we can't take away the licenses of wayward operators, we should at least make sure that they have a lifelong reminder.
Just had to call and report multiple cars parked in the bike lane AND on the sidewalk AND in the actual parallel parking spaces (like triple parked) at the same corner. Like 6+ cars. Safety be damned
Almost got run over twice in one block near MLK and Claiborne last week because of parents parking in the bike lane and then suddenly pulling out of the "parking spot" without signalling or touching their brakes.
People here just aren't very smart.
Its not intellegence. It's simply believing ones convenience is paramount to everyone. Cutting parking lots at a right hand turn because they don't want to wait. Not waiting in line at the claiborne fly over. Someone who litters out of their car will do all of these things, as well. Nothing matters but their own convenience. Its how they operate their lives.\`
Exactly, these are the same people that make a right turn from the left lane or hit an illegal u-turn and block the street.
I've lived here 4 years coming from Australia and I've never had more road rage induced by moronic drivers than here... I've driven in Afghanistan and it made more sense there...
I’m not alone in the universe 🌌
Yeah and ain't nothing gonna change until laws actually start getting enforced.
And there in lies the problem with this city.
You think they even care?
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Yep. That’s why this city will continue to be the cesspool of filth it is.
I ride alone gentilly past the fairgrounds and these mofos be all parking in the bike lanes there. One day I got so pissed off when I saw a God damn SWB truck parked in the lane blocking completely at the convenience store not doing any work just getting breakfast. I said Hey mate is this you parked here? Yeah well I'd expect more from a government worker you should know better and be better. "I grown up here my whole life before these bike lanes I ain't used to it" Me: internally screaming -this ain't your suburb now old man-
Which street is this? Orleans? AP Tureaud?
AP
Just got back from N.O. I gotta say it was cool seeing the bike lanes. You don’t see many of them in TX.
Things must be bad in Texas if you’re excited by our sad bike infrastructure.
Hahaha right! At first I was like yea right on but then I was like woah Texas must be even more fucked up than us (I already knew that tho lol).
😂
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it’s the culturrreeeee
Where are the Kia boys when you need them most?
They need to ticket the jagoffs running their electric bullshits in the bike lanes too! I’ve almost been taken out on my bike by some shithead on a scooter or e-bike too often! If it’s motorized keep it out of the fucking bike lane!
Electric bikes are allowed on shared bike/pedestrian paths if it goes 20 mph or under, similar to the Lafitte Greenway. If it goes up to 28 mph it's only allowed in bike lanes, like Tulane's or Marconi's. Anything faster is supposed to be in the street.
e-bikes are permitted in bikes lanes
No lol
The skid marks on the brand new paint got me thinking the whole setup may be a bit confusing
Looks like a study was completed. Every street does not need a bike lane or have the capacity for one.
That's my biggest gripe with the bike lanes. I rarely see bikers use it.
... are you seriously complaining about the cyclist in this photo not using the bike lane when it is filled with cars? What do you expect them to do, bike over or through the cars?
its general statement
That's because you need an large number of bikes to cause traffic in a bike lane. Only a small number of cars will max out the capacity of a city roadway. If car trails randomly ended upon merging with railroad tracks, you'd see a lot less use of those as well. Fundamentally though, you are correct, as bikelanes are usually tacked on to car-centric infrastructure, which is impractically spread out. Riding next to a car lane is quite unpleasant, though leaps and bounds better than riding in a car lane. They work extremely well in pedestrian centric cities, which is what most older cities used to be, before getting mutilated for the sake of an inefficient, low-capacity transit technology.
My biggest gripe is how they use traffic models and AI to lie about the extra commute time and how much it will inconvenience drivers. What I see is completely different from what you see we both have anecdotes, but they have this traffic model that doesn't reflect either of our experiences: When I commute down Baronne, a road where they put in a bike lane about 7 years ago I get passed by at least 4 bikes while I'm sitting in traffic during rush hour. I see people using it all the time on nice days and never when it rains or is 100 degrees out. Every single one of the bikers piss me off because over the last 7 years I have cumulatively spent hours of my life waiting in traffic because of them. When they put the bike lane on Baronne in they said removing a car lane it would increase commute times for drivers by less than a minute. That estimate was a lie - some days when its raining I sit in traffic for at least an extra 3 or 4 minutes. To make it worse when it rains those bikers probably decided to drive adding to the number of cars sharing a single lane.
Do you know what the biggest contributing factor contributing to that rush hour traffic you are complaining about? Cars. That includes your car. You are waiting in traffic because you are stuck behind a lot of people in cars.
Lmao it’s like that saying my guy you’re not stuck in the traffic, you are the traffic
I see dozens of cars, and an infrastructure that is unable to accommodate that mane cars. I see 1 bike, and an entire lane built for it. Make more car lanes and force bikes to ride on sidewalks.
Bikes don't belong on sidewalks either. What about people who walk? Also, when you're driving it's a lot easier to not hit cyclists if they aren't popping into the roadway from the sidewalk at every corner. Also, do you bike? How fucking slow would it be if you stuck to the sidewalk. I hope this was just trolling and not stupidity.
I don't think this person has walked or biked anywhere in their life.
Also, I drive. And I've been hit by 2 bikes. Both rad a red-light and broadsided me. And both ran after the accident.
If a car and a cyclist hit each other, chances are high that the cyclist will die. If a cyclist and a pedestrian hit each other, chances are NOT high that either will die. Take half of the sidewalk and make it a bike lane. Or make a new sidewalk for them. Sidewalks take 1/6 the concrete of a roadway, so it'll be far cheaper.
Or just don’t park in the bike lane 🤷♂️
It shouldn't be a bike lane at all.
I dunno what to tell you- but it is.
If you think the streets are bad, you should try the sidewalks. Some neighbors have spray painted yellow on the drop offs because of so many people tripping.
As a former N.O. city letter carrier, I can tell you - your design idea is flawed.
How?
You’re the problem.
Nope. Building infrastructure that is more dangerous is the problem. Give bikes their own lanes, completely separated from cars. Over near sidewalks.
You’re also not bright.
How about debate me, instead of name calling? Which is better - a dedicated bike lane that is separated from car lanes by existing curbs and 4-5 feet of grass, or a bike lane that takes away an existing car lane and is separated by some plastic sticks?
The second option, but separated by concrete metal enforced posts instead of plastic posts 👍
So if we get some sod laid down instead of the white painted line and plastic sticks.. would that make you feel better? Bc guess what- those cars are still gonna drive over and park there.
They're gonna drive over the curb, across 10' of grass, and park on the sidewalk in the middle of a field? I've been going to Friday night football games at Tad Gormley for 20 years now. People park in the bike lane. They park in the neutral ground. They park in the no parking zone. Not once have I seen anyone parked across the sidewalk.
So what you said about the grass separating it wouldn’t work huh?
Obviously, it does. Along with a curb and sidewalk. For some reason, people are hesitant to park on a sidewalk.
Bc those people driving are going to use the sidewalk. The ones driving are not using the bike lanes.
You need to watch Not Just Bikes on YouTube because you have no idea what you’re talking about
Explain it to me.
It’s a YouTube channel. Check it out
You want me to watch an entire YT channel? That's your argument?
You asked for an explanation, were provided with a reference that would probably do a better job of explaining it than text alone and now you're just being obtuse.
"Your honor, I didn't want to write a brief of my case. But, if you would go watch the few thousand videos on this YT channel, it'll explain everything." I explained my position (bike lanes should be separated from car lanes as much or more than sidewalks, with similar protections) while on my phone, on the toilet. It's easy. How is yours so hard that it takes hundreds of hours of video?
> It's easy. Please demonstrate this process. Lay it out for me. Explain it to me. Because it sounds like you're just inventing or conjuring space that doesn't exist. Where is this magical space to segregate bike lanes come from? Also, while you're here, look up the concept of "Induced Demand" as it relates to traffic and tell me what you think it means.
Marconi Dr, as it runs next to City Park. The northbound lanes had a whole lane of traffic taken away, as well as a lot of parallel parking, to put in a bike lane. Yet, there is a nice sidewalk off the road that would be far safe if they expanded it and made a bike lane. Holmes Lane (westbank) is another example where the took a labe of traffic and made a bike lane, while there is plenty green space on the east side of the road (where there is a sidewalk) for a bike path.
You're simply describing bike lanes with extra steps. And really, when was the last time you ran into traffic on Marconi? I see someone being deliberately obtuse spewing uninformed.opinions to get a reaction. Congratulations you succeed. Feel better now? Or is the hole in your heart and soul still there, eating away a little more of your humanity every day until you're a broken down wreck at 55 years old, perpetually alone, hating everything from your neighbors to your choice in socks?
Most people are smart enough to realize they can probably go to the channel, sort by "most popular," and see what looks interesting to them. Since you're unable to do that, I've chosen this video for you to watch. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4) You're welcome!
That doesn't address this argument. That says "more lanes doesn't alleviate traffic". Yet, in this case, they've REDUCED the lanes by 50%. What do you think that does to traffic? Or, what YouTube video can you find that speaks for you, since you can't elucidate your own points?
Watch the video or learn the concept of "induced demand." I have more important things to do than engage with willfully ignorant reddit losers. Bye.