"As a member of Chelsea Piers' athletic facilities I can't tell you how angry that proposal at face value makes me when I see that neither CP management, the guards it employs to direct traffic or collect parking tolls (not the party guards--I'm talking about the permanent ""toll-house"" variety), nor the NYPD (who seem to be at all the wrong places all the wrong times when it comes to the bikepath) does anything to manage and enforce what it already has: how many times have I been nearly mowed down by taxis, limos, SUVs, Minis, whatever, as these vehicles blast through every blessed stop sign on the facilities' access road at 20th, 18th, and 16th strees? If the NYPD wanted to make a mint on traffic violations, they ought to put one of theirs on the Piers' access drives--in all these places. (And to think my monthly dues in part finance the incompetence of the Piers management.)"

It have been missing for a long time. I was told by the organization which oversees the Hudson park bike path that it was on order. That was over a year ago. Still no speed bumps. Methinks it is not in the interest of Chelsea Piers to follow through on replacing them.

Incidentally, does anyone else think the impact end of the new railing at this intersection, where cyclists going south cross motorized traffic, should be made of something that absorbs impact like plastic, rather than metal? I can see some nasty accidents out in the future. Hitting the sharp end of that fence during peak usage in the confusion of crossing motor traffic and oncoming path users at this bend in the path plus an adjacent pedestrian crosswalk will result in head and face trauma.