Two weeks ago, Adams held a town hall in Williamsburg where numerous members of the neighborhood’s Hasidic community criticized the bike lane. They cited a viral video where a person riding an e-bike crashed into a young child who dashed into the bike lane from a double parked car.
An online petition against the redesigned bike lane titled “DOT: Please Stop the Murder of our Children” has more than 3,000 signatures.
So the problem is the bike lane? Not the illegally parked car. Not the unsupervised child running into traffic. Not the other cars which are much heavier and faster and far more deadly than bikes which frequently hit pedestrians. Not even the cyclist who would probably still be in the lane of traffic even without a bike lane. No, it’s the lane that’s the problem.
I mean we see this all the time with cars when they hit people. Cities are always removing the street as a response. They realize hey this isn’t a safe place for cars so lets get rid of them from this area. So at least they are consistent.