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It’s a wheel concern
Cyclists: City must fi nish promised bike lanes through
Williamsburg despite recent about face in L shutdown
BY JULIANNE CUBA
The city must fi nish installing
new bike lanes it began
laying along Grand Street
ahead of the long-promised
L-train closure that Gov.
Cuomo abruptly called off
this month, demanded cyclists,
who worried the
change in plans will jeopardize
the completion of longsought
after infrastructure.
“I’m absolutely concerned
that all sorts of stuff could
fall through the cracks,”
said pedal pusher Philip
Leff, a Williamsburger and
member of the pro-cycling
group Transportation Alternatives.
Department of Transportation
workers last fall
began work on the two socalled
protected bike lanes
on Grand Street between
Morgan Avenue and Rodney
Street, months after agency
honchos revealed their redesign
of the commercial strip
where three cyclists died in
fatal crashes since 2016.
The redesign calls for removing
one of two parking
lanes on that stretch to make
room for the green bike
paths, which transit leaders
said would allow Grand
Street to better accommodate
some of those 250,000 daily Ltrain
riders whom offi cials
expected to pedal across the
East River once subway service
to Manhattan stopped
during the shutdown.
But now the job is seemingly
in limbo, according to
cyclists, who said swaths of
the green bike lanes are still
not in place, causing chaos
because motorists continue
to park on the incomplete
pedalers’ paths, forcing bicyclists
to swerve into traffi c.
“It’s problematic because
cars just park there, and
I have to go around them
into traffi c on Grand Street,
which is used by a lot of
trucks going to and from
industrial areas,” said Yehuda
Pollack, a Queens resident
who regularly cycles
through Williamsburg.
Another bicyclist who frequently
pedals along Grand
Street echoed Pollack’s complaints,
accusing the city of
abandoning the in-the-works
project despite the Transportation
Department assuring
him in a November tweet
that work on the lanes would
continue through the winter.
“There’s no effort being
made to actually fi nish,” said
Eric Helms, who lives just beyond
Bushwick in Queens,
and rides through Williamsburg
nearly everyday.
Last week, the in-theworks
lanes on Grand Street
between Manhattan and
Graham avenues — where
a hit-and-run driver fatally
smashed into cyclist Matthew
Von Ohlen in 2016 —
were only semi-complete
when this reporter paid a
visit on Jan. 8. There was
no green paint on the pavement
to identify the paths,
and plastic Con Edison barriers
sat in the middle of the
Bushwick-bound lane.
Other blocks’ lanes are
similarly unfi nished, according
to Leff, who blasted
the city for not cracking
down enough on those scofflaws
who blatantly obstruct
the in-progress paths.
“There are wspots where
either they’re not completely
painted, or not completely
enforced, that’s a key part of
it too,” he said.
And cyclists aren’t the
only ones concerned — a
handful of local pols recently
rallied to demand that city
and state offi cials move forward
with installing the bike
lanes, and that transportation
bigwigs better communicate
with anxious straphangers.
“You can’t merely implement
a major change in procedure
without major planning
and communication,”
Borough President Adams
said outside the Lorimer
Street L station during the
Jan. 6 demonstration.
City transit leaders, however,
continue to remain
mum about the fate of the
various alternative transportation
options planned for
the now-cancelled shutdown,
only promising to reveal any
changes to those plans after
the state-run Metropolitan
Transportation Agency provides
more information on
its newly adopted scheme to
fi x the L line.
“As we get more information
from the MTA on the
new L train plan, we will
look at our planned efforts
to make sure we are implementing
the right elements,”
said Transportation Department
spokeswoman Alana
Morales.
DON’T STOP NOW: Chunks of
the green Grand Street bike
lanes are still not in place
(above), causing chaos because
motorists continue to park on
the incomplete pedalers’ paths
(right), forcing bicyclists to
swerve into traffi c, they said.
Photos by Julianne Cuba
/eNorthfield.com