10th Ave Bike Route in Upper Manhattan
April 2012 - new signs and white paint clearly delineate the bike route.
Bike Path alongside FDR near E 14th St
New York City Department of Transportation engineers show off their
skill at laying out bike lane markings and directional arrows.
Photo taken July 4, 2004. View is towards the south.
If you want the original full-scale photo, you can download it
here.
Here's another NYC DoT arrow of note - at the 181st St pedestrian
bridge over the Henry Hudson Parkway. The sign for "George Washington
Bridge" should point towards the camera, up Riverside Drive, so that
people leaving the Hudson River Greenway can find the Bridge path.
Instead, it points into a wall, so that people who are going to the
Greenway from the GW Bridge can see how clumsy NYC DoT is with their
signs.
To their defense, NYC DoT didn't do this intentionally, but I first
notified them back in the summer of 2002 about this problem, and followed
up every 6-10 months. What does it take to get a sign fixed around here?
Update
In April 2005, almost three years later, the errant sign was removed.
The scaffolding remained.
In May, 2005, parts of the retaining wall in the background behind the
scaffolding collapsed, showering rock and dirt onto Riverside Drive and
the adjacent Henry Hudson Parkway. Subsequent press reports suggested
that the scaffolding in the photo above was installed by one of the local
co-op buildings to protect people from rocks falling out of the wall.