Transportation

New Yorkers Are Publicly Shaming Cars in Bike Lanes

A map invites cyclists to photograph and report drivers behaving badly.
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A huge Ryder truck unloading “Dunkin Doughnuts” for about an hour. A Chevy pick-up driver “leaving the door open in the lane” for several minutes. A car service that uses a bike lane “as their parking lot.”

These are some of the allegedly guilty parties blocking cycle paths in New York, as displayed on the crowd-sourced public-shaming map Cars In Bike Lanes.