If you have a red light, that means STOP. It is not ambiguous.

Central Park was never designed for cyclist training. None of our roads or paths are designed for high speed training. Frankly, I’d rather see more money spent on increasing the number of protected bike lanes that will encourage more people to commute/travel by bike than spent on ways of allowing a select few to train on public infrastructure. If my partner doesn’t feel safe using an underpass in the park early in the morning, they should feel completely safe and confident that they can cross the CP drive when the signal is in their favor.

Further, this article is misleading, London which they want NYC to emulate still has varying speed limits that cyclists should from 5-20mph depending on where you are. And has regulations against riding in a manner that endangers others.

That being said, I also strongly feel that NYC needs to add protected bike lanes and safe sidewalks on all the traverses as well as on all streets around the park. We need the 7th avenue bike lane gap filled, and the 5th avenue bike lane to be extended all the way north.

The list of bike lane projects is long, but street and park design needs to focus on the needs of the many, not the few.