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Joseph Lawler lives off fixing bicycles and loves riding them.

"The best thing about biking in the city is just being free on the bike," says Lawler.

The native New Yorker doesn’t even have a driver’s license, but even he admits the city’s push for peddling isn’t perfect.

"Some of the bike lanes are good, some of them are bad," says Lawler.

He points to danger from pedestrians on 2nd Avenue and curbside lanes getting trashed as big problems.

Two wheel lanes along Prospect Park West in Brooklyn and Grand Street in Lower Manhattan have spun up tons of opposition.

Public hearings have turned angry, and some say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s transportation commissioner forced too many unwanted bike lanes too quickly.

More than 250 miles of them have been put in since Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan came into office in 2007.

However, many of the most controversial lanes were part of a city master plan adopted under a different administration in 1997.

City Councilman James Vacca worries about the administration's strategy. He calls a change to a narrow two-lane street in the Country Club section of The Bronx dangerous.

"When I found that block in the bike master plan, I became confused, and I started to find other blocks that I did not think belonged in the bike master plan," says Vacca.

He wants to require the Department of Transportation to update the master plan with required public input every five years, especially now that the DOT wants to double the arranged 900-mile network to 1800 miles of lanes by 2030.

The DOT does notify community boards before building a new lane. City Council members say that's already required by law.

However, Vacca and bike lover Lawler say that’s not good enough.

"The public should have a lot more input then they do," says Lawler.

Lawler believes a better understanding will make transportation safer.