the bike lane is on the left. there are cars illegally parked in it. The narrow strip is not the bike lane, its the door zone, a 3 ft setback between the parked cars and the bike lane.

The street redesign doesn't even reduce car capacity. It still has two lanes for cars, and parking on either side, it gets the space by not having unnecessarily wide lanes.

In the article there's the actual and the proposed structure of the road (https://lede-admin.nyc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/48/2025/04/31st-St-diagram.png). What you see above is a buffer zone that divides parked cars (right) from the actual bike lane (left, even though there are cars parked).

No want to fight against fascism

Trump ignores the wants of the many to benefit the few. When the many stand up to the few, it's not the same as what Trump does, it's the opposite.

Morally you're right of course. Everyone should follow laws and procedures. Even when others don't. No disagreement.

But there is a line from the first Foundation book. I'll paraphrase: Don't let your sense of morality stop you from doing the right thing.

When you're playing against a cheater. You'll follow the rules every time, and loose every time. Which is fine in a game. Especially when you know someone is inforcing the rules and the cheater will be stopped. But when when actual lives are on the line? And the ref is the one cheating? Going against your moral code to do the right thing, becomes the moral thing to do.

That's what RobbinHood was all about.

I want everyone to stop tripping over themselves to comply with dumb "orders" like this. If that means taking a page out of Trump's playbook and ignoring them, then yeah, fuck it.

Thank god the legal system is protecting those lawbreaking drivers against those evil bicyclists!