Back in 2014, the Department of Transportation under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio converted an unprotected bike lane on the corridor to a full-on protected bike lane in the northbound direction way. The old one-way bike lane forced southbound cyclists to detour onto Broadway instead, where the bike lane is a simple painted strip with minimal protection for cyclists. But the new Lafayette Street bike lane is 11 feet wide — less than the 16 foot-wide two-way bike lane in Astoria, but more than the 8 feet two-way lane that DOT plans to put on nearby Grand Street. Two cyclists on the new Lafayette Street bike lane between Prince Street and East Houston Street. Cops gave at least 150 parking tickets to bike lane blockers in the area this year, according publicly available data, but it seems that neither that nor the recent bike lane changes have prevented cars (or tractors) from constantly blocking the way.