Posted on 11/04/2017 8:49:41 AM PDT by dennisw
Thursday, just two days after a terror suspect killed eight people by driving a truck down a large swath of the bike path in lower Manhattan, city and state Department of Transportation crews began installing concrete and Jersey barriers at 57 spots along the route between 59th Street and the World Trade Center, according to the mayor’s office.
The barriers are meant to protect pedestrians and cyclists on the greenway from vehicular traffic on the West Side Highway.
“Vehicles won’t be able to access places they aren’t supposed to,” said Ben Sarle, a spokesman for the mayor’s office. “They’re extremely heavy and effective.”
But at the corner of West 37th Street, crews set down a slab of concrete diagonally in the middle of the bike path.
“Stupidest idea I have ever seen. Thousands of bikers go here,” said Robert Sinclair, 44, of Clinton Hill. “People are going to seriously hit that.”
It was unclear if it would be moved in the future. A request for comment from the city DOT was not immediately returned.
The 20-foot-long Jersey barriers put in by the state are particularly dangerous, according to White, because they turn a two-way bike lane into one single lane, “effectively putting north and southbound cyclists on a collision course.”
“The Hudson River Greenway is the busiest pedestrian and bike path in North America -- it is used and beloved by hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers every year, and the city and state's current ‘solutions’ fail them in spectacular fashion,” White added. “We need to protect our public spaces without making them uninviting and difficult to use.”
Cathy Calhoun, chief of staff for the state DOT, said the barriers are only a short-term fix, put up to quickly to enhance the security around the bike path after Tuesday's attack.
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NYC is no place to have bike lanes at all. Bloomberg destroyed traffic movement in the city because of wide bike lanes on city streets that are underutilized and pedestrian malls installed at Times Square.
I thought Democrats/liberals said that Walls don’t work. Why are they putting up walls?
Is that a pressure cooker in that back pack?.
Very good! I saw on the news this morning that they put the “mobile diversity barriers” (garbage trucks at intersections) in place along the marathon route.
At some point even the most leftist lib will realize it is cheaper to just deport the killers (all of them - parents, siblings, children); they’ve bragged they’ll beat us by bankrupting us with extra security costs.
If they would just deep fat fry the perp in pig lard the problem would be solved...
LOL!
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