Traffic enforcement matters. The NYPD blocking the bike lane at 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.Cities & Transportation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A few blocks from my apartment on St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem is a dangerous intersection for pedestrians and bike riders, deliveristas and drivers. Stand on the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and 145th Street and watch the cars and trucks and bikers and deliveristas run the red light and you will see just how hazardous this intersection can be. But that's not all. Compounding the risk to public safety, NYPD regularly parks in the bike lanes south of 145th Street forcing bikers and deliveristas out into traffic. This isn't a sometime thing. Everyday, patrol cars and vans block the bike lanes.
Why do so many unmarked NYPD cars have NJ plates?