City to install bike lanes despite
community board’s objections
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City offi cials ignored a Dyker
Heights community board’s
rejection of a network of bike
lanes proposed for the area,
and have decided to implement
the paths over the civic
group’s objections.
“It was surprising to learn
in statements made to the
press that DOT opted to proceed
with bicycle lanes on
Ridge Boulevard,” said Doris
Cruz, the chair of Community
Board 10, in a statement
on June 20. Ridge Boulevard
is one of four bike lanes in
Dyker Heights that DOT will
paint despite the board’s objections.
During a community
board meeting on Monday,
June 17, members in Community
Board 10 asked to investigate
traffi c safety along 84th
and 85th streets between 7th
and 14th avenues before the
city installed a bike lane. The
board also rejected a lane on
Bay Ridge Avenue between
Shore Road and 14th Avenue,
arguing that the two-mile
stretch lacks left-turn signals
and contains a steep incline.
But on Wednesday, the
transit agency announced
its plans to paint lanes on
all three streets without further
study — as well as on fi ve
other roadways that the board
approved — in the early fall.
None of these lanes would
erase existing parking space,
and only one would be protected,
according to the DOT.
“These new bike lanes are
critical in creating a safer
and larger cycling network
in southern Brooklyn,” said
DOT spokeswoman Alana
Morales. DOT did not address
why it chose to proceed with
the bike plans despite the
board’s suggestions.
The decision comes after
months of discussions and
workshops in Dyker Heights
about the proposed lanes,
which the board’s District
Manager Josephine Beckmann
thought positively infl
uenced the neighborhood’s
attitude towards the project.
“I think the workshops
created a very good community
discussion,” said Beckmann.
“I think the sentiment
is changing in Bay Ridge and
Dyker Heights.”
During workshops, residents
expressed their concerns
about bike lanes, which
they worried would take away
parking space and create an
unsafe environment for seniors
and children walking
in the neighborhood. In response,
local bicyclists argued
that bike lanes dramatically
increase bikers’ safety
without having to take away
parking.
Among the bike lane supporters
were some local pols,
including state Sen. Andrew
Gounardes, Councilman Justin
Brannan, and Assemblywoman
Mathylde Frontus.
“We respect the community
board’s advisory vote
and value the robust community
input that went into
these proposals,” wrote the
three pols in a letter to DOT
on June 18. “We believe that
the proposals offered by DOT
refl ected the best will of the
community.”
Still, the DOT’s choice to
ignore the community board
came as a surprise. “We had
not had that before,” said
Beckmann.
STAY IN YOUR LANE: DOT plans to implement about 10 new bike lanes in
Dyker Heights, despite the community board’s protests. Getty Images
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