Comments on: “Dismount” Signs Ignored, Taken Down in Riverside Park http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/ New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-937 Anonymous Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:14:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-937 As of 12/15 Dan Rivoli is no longer with Manhattan Media. Please send story suggestions and other inquiries to Allen Houston, editor of Our Town and the West Side Spirit at ahouston@mahattanmedia.com. Thanks.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-936 Anonymous Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:07:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-936 The Greenway is a shared space that should serve multiple uses and users. The segment between 59th and 96th is only the keystone segment of the busiest bike path in the nation. That’s why I walk single file, or in a narrow double-file, with my family when I’m there.

If I want to walk alongside family and friends, I walk on the other pathways in the park further inland, which aren’t designated bike paths.

If I never wanted to feel constrained by the need to share space with my fellow New Yorkers, I’d move to some boring suburb and we’d walk laps around the Palisades Center or something.

(Full disclosure: I bike, walk, and run on this greenway, doing all three with great frequency.)

]]> By: Bbensa1 http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-934 Bbensa1 Sat, 28 May 2011 16:05:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-934 Please, I nearly got knocked down by a biker as did two children, yesterday late afternoon.  The bikers do NOT slow down at all.  They do not obey the rules.  I cannot walk and relax in the park that used to be for families – children, adults and seniors. 

I agree with the below comments from last year!
NO BIKERS BETWEEN 59th AND 96th STREET

I cannot believe how they fast they ride!!!  This is a park – not the street.

Why do I HAVE TO WALK in a single file with my family near the riverfront???
Tell me WHY???

]]> By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-935 Anonymous Sat, 28 May 2011 16:05:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-935 As of 12/15 Dan Rivoli is no longer with Manhattan Media. Please send story suggestions and other inquiries to Allen Houston, editor of Our Town and the West Side Spirit at ahouston@mahattanmedia.com. Thanks.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-933 Anonymous Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:12:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-933 I am no longer at Manhattan Media. Please send your inquiry to editorial@manhattanmedia.com or contact Allen Houston, ahouston@manhattanmedia.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-932 Anonymous Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:38:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-932 Well, speaking of paris, why not have lanes like they do here? In paris. Half the lane for bikes and roller bladers and half for pedestrians. Surely bikers could be less surly and fractious but pedestrians are guilty of that too. And a dog on a 20′ leash across a walkway is just as dangerous (and self-centered) as the bikers you all are decrying.

Nobodys going away. Not likely anyone’s going to be any more respectful than they already are; so divide them.

]]> By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-928 Anonymous Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:55:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-928 I am no longer at Manhattan Media. Please send your inquiry to editorial@manhattanmedia.com or contact Allen Houston, ahouston@manhattanmedia.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-929 Anonymous Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:55:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-929 I am no longer at Manhattan Media. Please send your inquiry to editorial@manhattanmedia.com or contact Allen Houston, ahouston@manhattanmedia.com

]]> By: Wilson http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-930 Wilson Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:55:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-930 There’s a very simple solution: NO BIKERS on the waterfront paths from 59th to 96th. The bicyclists very clearly see the greenway as a closed circuit perfect for time trials — that is not going to change. The situation is a major accident waiting to happen. Hopefully, and I don’t enjoy saying this, a pet will be killed before a child is. Wake up, the original plan is not working. NO BIKERS.

]]> By: Wilson http://nypress.com/dismount-signs-ignored-taken-down-in-riverside-park/#comment-931 Wilson Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:55:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=7123#comment-931 There’s a very simple solution: NO BIKERS on the waterfront paths from 59th to 96th. The bicyclists very clearly see the greenway as a closed circuit perfect for time trials — that is not going to change. The situation is a major accident waiting to happen. Hopefully, and I don’t enjoy saying this, a pet will be killed before a child is. Wake up, the original plan is not working. NO BIKERS.

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