To answer your question : No

Go back and look at the "debate" over the 9th Street road diet three years ago -- same warnings of apocalyptic developments caused by traffic calming. None of which, of course, materialized. This redesign will make Prospect Park West safer, calmer and better for everyone: pedestrians, cyclists, drivers and residents.

I have lived by the park all of my life and have had to deal with the traffic on Prospect Park West as a bus rider, pedestrian, bicyclist, and pedestrian. I strongly support the City's proposal for a separated bike lane. As currently configured, PPW is a dangerous speedway. Cars routinely go 45 MPH. When I drive the speed limit, I am passed on the left and right by selfish drivers who think they have the right to set their own speed limits. When I am walking, I have to dodge crazy drivers coming from Grand Army Plaza and illegal bike riders on the sidewalk heading towards GAP.

Eighth Avenue, which has similar traffic volume to PPW, is fine with two traffic lanes. PPW past Bartel-Pritchard Square and Prospect Park Southwest both have one traffic lane each leading from the square. For those who think this is a bad idea, go out for a few days and count the speeders, the reckless drivers, the wrong-way bikers, and the overall traffic volume and you won't think PPW needs three wild lanes for cars.

Maybe PPW isn't idea for cyclists, but on balance, I would have to agree with the Brooklyn Paper's editorial on this proposal.

In other words, if you can't handle PPW as a cyclist, why not ride in the Park? Moreover, why not focus on making the Park safe for cyclists during those hours (rush hour) when cars and bikes are riding together.

Well it looks like the yups got their way. Shutting down an entire lane of traffic on PPW and resulting in the loss of 22 parking spots is pretty bad, but all that really matters is that the tens of thousands of transplanted suburban Joshes and Megans that woke up one day and suddenly decided to make their pilgrimage here to Park Slope will now have yet one more way to loll around the neighborhood and kill time between the farmer's market and jug band practice.

You know what...I hate this idea...what a waste of money and I promise all you chruchy bikelane dickheads that I will be out there to block this bull—— with my car.....also I encourage everyone to double park in the bike lane and throw garbage, especially rusty nails into it too.

These binkey binklanes are $100%$ pandering to filthy mentally defective yups who need those training wheels...if you don't believee me go here:

http://www.nycbikemaps.com/maps/brooklyn-bike-map/

Its amazing to me that ALL the bikelanes on this map are in gentrified, yuppie neighborhoods...LOOOOOK for yourself.....

Are they that helpless that they can't ride in Prospect Park???? geeez......

So, as I suspected, this is really not about bikes at all, but about hawd cawh Brooklyn people who hate outsiders moving into their neighborhoods, pushing up property values, and making the old-timers rich for no reason. You sound like my landlords who hate newcomers but have no problem taking their money. Move to Long Island if you want to be backwards and shop at the mall in your SUV.

If you seriously want to stop gentrification, get behind banning babies and baby strollers, or try to ruin the local schools. Parents are the people who are truly ruining New York with their screaming brats and their expectation that you will hold the door for them or give up a subway seat just because they feel entitled enough to be "pregnant." Down with everyone!!!

Registration fees, car insurance, and feeding the Parking Meter==less parking spaces.
No cost to cylists==more bike lanes.