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FOURTH AVENUE FREE-FOR-ALL!
Dead end
In-the-works bike lanes
dump cyclists into traffi c
By Julianne McShane
Brooklyn Paper
The city endangered cyclists
by painting bike lanes on
Fourth Avenue that abruptly
end at construction sites where
traffic is reduced to one lane,
forcing bike riders to choose
between their wheels and their
lives, according to one outraged
MEAN
Streets
Call the police
City must install traffi c cops
for safety of pedestrians
Photo by Colin Mixson
State transit workers took over a driving lane on
Fourth Avenue outside IS 136 and MS 821 to make
repairs to subway tunnels beneath the road.
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bicyclist.
“The construction makes
it bad because you can’t see
and there’s a ton of debris, so
you can risk getting a flat and
biking over the debris in the
bike lane, or you can swerve
into traffic,” said Sarah Ziglifa,
who commutes on bike from
her Fort Hamilton home to her
job in Manhattan most days.
“I signal and merge and hope
for the best.”
Last fall, workers with the
city’s Department of Transportation
finished painting the first
part of the forthcoming protected
bike paths on Fourth
Avenue — which when complete
will allow cyclists to
pedal from Bay Ridge to Atlantic
Avenue in both directions
via separate lanes along the
Bay Ridge– and Downtown–
bound sides of the road.
But work on the lanes, which
now just span the avenue from
60th to 64th streets, halted last
August to accommodate two
construction projects led by the
state-run Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
One of the projects required
Transportation Authority workers
to close one of Fourth Avenue’s
two Bay Ridge–bound
traffic lanes from 52nd to 59th
streets, in order to repair N-
and R-line subway tunnels beneath
the road, according to
agency rep Amanda Kwan.
That seven-block stretch of
work was supposed to wrap
at the end of last year, but is
still in progress, according to
Community Board 7’s district
manager, Jeremy Laufer.
The city endangered cyclists by painting four-block
bike lanes on Fourth Avenue that end abruptly, spitting
bike riders out into construction sites and forcing
them to merge into one lane of vehicle traffic,
according to outraged two-wheelers.
Photo by Maya Harrison
And amid that ongoing project,
state transit leaders last
month kicked off a second job
to install elevators at the 59th
Street subway station , which
is expected to wrap this fall,
and required shuttering one of
Fourth Avenue’s two Downtown–
bound traffic lanes between
58th and 60th streets.
Both affected lanes are
closed for most of each day,
except for during a 2–8 pm
window when they open to vehicle
and bicycle traffic.
But cyclists must fight drivers
for room on the road while
riding through those areas due
to the incomplete bike lanes,
according to Ziglifa, who said
motorists often erupt in bouts
of road rage because they’re
forced to share the street.
Reps for the state Transportation
Authority and city
Transportation Department
said officials at both agencies
are working with each
other to manage traffic, construction,
and safety measures
in the area.
Workers will paint another
stretch of the bike lanes, from
38th to Second streets, later this
year, with plans to install the
39th–59th street stretches of
the paths after the state agency
finishes its projects.
— with Maya Harrison
Brooklyn’s
boulevard
battle lines
By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
The city refuses to station
traffic-safety agents near ongoing
construction projects on
Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park,
putting hundreds of area students’
lives at risk as they walk
to school each day, according
to a local civic leader.
“There are two middle
schools located between 40th
and 41st streets, and the thought
that there wouldn’t be traffic
agents at this pinch point when
there’s well over a thousand
kids crossing every day is horrible,”
Zak Jasie, chairman of
Community Board 7’s Transportation
Committee, said in
reference to IS 136 and MS
821, Sunset Park Prep.
Last summer, leaders of the
state-run Metropolitan Transportation
Authority requested
Police Department agents monitor
traffic along the avenue
ahead of planned repair work
to subway tunnels.
But no agents were in place
when work kicked off in August,
said CB7 District Manager
Jeremy Laufer.
Police Department spokesman
Lt. John Grimpel told this
newspaper that authorities
chose not to reassign traffic
agents to Fourth Avenue due to
lack of funds necessary to beef
up enforcement, but Transportation
Authority spokeswoman
Amanda Kwan claimed the
agency set aside $2.5 million
for that purpose.
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