This is a protest by those car dealerships against that bike lane. The bike lane is less than 10 years old and was hard-fought for by the de Blasio administration against the dealerships in this section of queens. After the lane went in the dealerships started parking their cars on the public sidewalks and encroaching into the bike lane as much as they could just to be assholes. The cops of course cannot be convinced to do jack shit about it.

Would sure be a shame if a pedestrian with a stroller or wagon walking down the sidewalk accidentally scratched the fuck out of them

All of these vehicles can be reported for illegal parking on NYC311. It’s a bit of a pain to do but from what I’ve heard they’re acting on reports much faster than they used to lately.

Just start keying the shit out of these cars.

Holy shit that’s bad. And I thought it was wasteful when some car-stores popped up close-by me in a mid-sized Finnish city, and what they built on was unused fields before. Still I can’t understand how it’s profitable to rent that much, surely people aren’t buying cars that often. But I guess it has to be profitable, since we’re in capitalism.

Just how is a mystery to me.

Also your bike-infra kinda sucks. I’m happy to see it exists, but… for your sake I’d hope it’d be improved. Like maybe set up lights for the bike crossing so you don’t have to rely on people’s good will not to get driven over.

That merge point with the bike lane crossing the street has me sketched out. Merging vehicles trying to see past all the parked cars for oncoming traffic, bikes coming up parallel to cross, from behind traffic’s blind spot. Tragedy just waiting to happen.

Queens is basically rich Manhattanites car garage. It sucks.

Another great example why bike lanes need to be separated and protected by structures

You can’t talk about cars in NYC without talking about Robert Moses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

He was head of dozens of government offices and manipulated the entire tri-state area for decades.

He hated any form of mass transit. He made sure that the bridges on the Long Island Expressway were too low for buses.

My hometown has a kenworth plant

Kenworth has a bad habit of putting huge parking lots for their truck everywhere they can, and then leaving them unattended for months on end.

Kenworth learned the hard way that they need to keep better control over where they leave their shit, otherwise people who have a reason to hate them (which is a lot of people around there) might fuck with their trucks and cause millions in damages.

Another company who has a tow truck might be really happy to know how many of those cars are parked illegally. Find the scummiest one you can too.

Yeah, it’s insane how entitled people get about using public spaces to store their private metal boxes just because the boxes have wheels.

Have they actually parked on the bike lane? It’d be too bad if a handlebar accidentally scratched them. I used to work close to a dealership and they had taken the whole sidewalk around their building with cars. Someone parked a bicycle on that sidewalk once. They were asked to move it.

I have lost my balance trying to fit between cars on both sides like that a few times. A couple shoulder vs mirror matches were had and my summer bike has scraped off paint some of those times.

BIKE LANEEEE, YOURE IN THE BIKE LANE!!!

Should cut down a safety window breaker to be glued onto the knuckles of a bike glove and just… roll down the street popping windows.