Chapter 8:
Parks
a) Cars in Parks
b) Cars Out of Parks
c) The First Auto-Free Parks Movement
d) The Environment
e) Safety
f) Other Parks
Chapter 8 Recommendations
Sidebar: The 15-Mile-Per-Hour Cycling Speed Limit
Chapter 8 Recommendations
AGENCIES
NYC Dept. of Transportation
Refrain from severing or destroying — whether temporarily or permanently — any existing bicycle path or walkway as part of any highway rehabilitation-modernization or expansions project.
NYC Departments of Transportation and Parks
Replace the Central Park bicycle speed limit with the set of measures shown in sidebar on previous page.
Ban automobiles from all other city parks, including, but not limited to, Prospect and Forest Parks.
Elevate priority for maintaining and improving existing bicycle paths, e.g., Shore Parkway bike path.
Create a new cycling loop in Flushing Meadow Park around the two lakes and the perimeter of the main part of the park.
Whenever possible, establish bicycle access to nature preserves such as the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge and the Audubon Buffer/Bay Project.
Upgrade bicycle facilities in Gateway National Park by creating a circumferential cycling path in Jamaica Bay, a velodrome (bicycle racing track) and BMX course in Floyd Bennett Field, and installing secure bicycle parking facilities near the beach in Fort Tilden.
See Chapter 7, Greenways, for further recommendations for creating specific bicycle paths and routes in or between city parks.
NYC Parks Department
Set up jitney bus service in Central and Prospect Parks to make them accessible to those who can't easily walk or ride.
LEGISLATIVE
Require that bicycle rental shops in the vicinity of major parks clearly display and distribute park-user guidelines to people renting bicycles and rollerblades.
a) Cars in Parks
b) Cars Out of Parks
c) The First Auto-Free Parks Movement
d) The Environment
e) Safety
f) Other Parks
Chapter 8 Recommendations
Sidebar: The 15-Mile-Per-Hour Cycling Speed Limit
