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held. If a community board
offers a critique or alternative
that’s a better way to do
things, great. If they simply
want no change and we believe
no change means less safety,
I just give the order.”
The plan calls for the Police
Department to crack down
on risky driving behavior —
such as speeding and failure
to yield — in addition to featuring
monthly enforcement
sweeps, dubbed “operation safe
passage,” targeting motorists
blocking bike lanes.
And NYPD traffic agents
will keep their eyes peeled
for reckless truckers, according
to de Blasio, who noted
trucks have been involved in
40 percent of cycling deaths
this year.
“I want everyone that
drives a truck in this city to
know that the NYPD will be
watching and they will take
action if any trucker does the
wrong thing and endangers
a bicyclist” he said.
The mayor touted the
success of a three-week enforcement
police to conduct in the wake
of a Williamsburg bike fatality
during the first three
weeks of July, when officers
handed out double the amount
of tickets for cars blocking
bike lanes as compared to
that same time period last
year, hizzoner claimed.
But the mayor’s multimillion
scheme falls short for
some bike advocates, including
should do more to discourage
New Yorkers from driving,
saying cars remain at
the heart of Kings County’s
transit woes.
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“The Mayor’s plan fails
to address the root cause of
our emergency,” Councilman
Carlos Menchaca (D–Sunset
Park) said in an emailed
statement. “What we need
is the courage to break the
car culture and implement a
master plan that protects the
safety of our most vulnerable
street users — cyclists
and pedestrians.”
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
A truck driver struck a cyclist
in Greenpoint last Thursday,
hospitalizing him.
The motorist attempted to
make a right turn onto Franklin
Street off of Banker Street
at 2:30 p.m., when he collided
with the cyclist who was riding
along Franklin Street’s
northbound bike path, ac-
cording to police.
The intersection where the
collision occurred features a
stop sign for Banker Street
traffic seeking to merge onto
Franklin Street, and forces
motorists to cross over the
perpendicular bike path to
complete a turn in either direction
onto the north-south
thoroughfare.
Paramedics rushed the
cyclist to Bellevue Hospital
with a fractured ankle.
The driver remained on the
scene, and was issued multiple
summonses, according
to authorities.
The crash occurred as
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
a renewed commitment
to expanding the
city’s bike lane network —
a response to the dramatic uptick
in citywide cyclist fatalities
in 2019.
“The fact that this all happened
in such a small amount
of time — it’s a crisis and
an emergency,” said de Blasio
during the press conference.
First responders arrive on the scene after a cyclist was hit by a truck in Greenpoint
on Thursday.
Noel Hidalgo
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Trans por tation plans to
connect several of the
borough’s existing bike
networks with new safe
lanes, shown in yellow,
by 2021.
Department of Transportation
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