A new type of bicycle lane - one that aims to keep cyclists safe by keeping them farther from motorists - is popping up in Manhattan.The city is building a buffered bike lane within the next month on a stretch of Ninth Avenue between West 16th and West 23rd Streets in Chelsea.Cyclists will be separated from traffic by a strip of pavement and a lane of parked cars - an idea many say will make their lives a lot easier."For me it's the equivalent of a video game. I'm just scanning; I'm doing all kinds of things at once," said bicyclist Elizabeth Sclafani of trying to maneuver among motorists on the street."Cabs swerve; buses don't care. They don't pay attention to bikers," said bicyclist Pam Chmiel. "It's definitely dangerous.""You're not acknowledged in the street. Trucks turn on you," says bike rider Peter Shapiro.Cyclists say the new plan couldn't be implemented soon enough."That's a good idea that's what they need, so we don't have to dodge the traffic and we can just keep going. The quicker the better," said cyclist George Bouknight.The plan has the full support of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group that promotes safer city streets."This is a design that has worked really well in Europe. We're testing it out here on New York Streets and if it works I think we're going to see it on a lot more streets in the future," said Norvell.Plans for the new type of bike lane come following a 2006 study that showed over the past decade, 225 bicyclists have been killed on city streets and more than 3,400 have been hurt."We know there are hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers that would bike to work everyday if it were a little safer and physically protect them from traffic is a really huge way to do that," said Norvell.The DOT says traffic in the area is light enough to allow for the elimination of one lane of traffic.The project is aimed at making the streets safer for pedestrians too. The DOT says one less lane of traffic will make crossing streets easier.The new bike lanes are expected to be ready next month.