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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, FEB. 3, 2019
Locals: Ninth St. is no safer
Residents claim new Ninth Street bike lanes make road even more dangerous
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BY COLIN MIXSON
A stretch of Ninth Street in Park
Slope where a driver hit and killed
two children last year is now more
dangerous to pedestrians than
ever, following a redesign that
brought new protected bike lanes
to the road, locals alleged.
The new bike lanes — which
run on either side of Ninth Street
between Prospect Park West and
Third Avenue, and are separated
from traffi c by a parking lane —
embolden cyclists to speed, according
to Ninth Street residents,
who on Jan. 24 met with a representative
for Borough President
Adams at Seventh Avenue’s All
Saints Episcopal Church to share
their concerns about the infrastructure.
An organizer of the meeting
told its roughly two dozen attendees
that her neighbor, whom she
described as a 93-year-old World
War II veteran, nearly died when
a bicyclist almost hit him as he
recently attempted to cross one of
the bike lanes.
“There’s a deep concern about
safety, and that’s the reason we’re
here tonight,” said Myra Manning.
Another Ninth Street resident
told the room his 13-year-old son
was skateboarding to school in one
of the protected bike lanes in December,
when a truck driver turning
onto Sixth Avenue struck him.
And that incident, coupled with
the open invitation to speed given
to cyclists, has cast serious doubts
on the infrastructure’s effi cacy, according
to the local.
“I’m afraid of getting out of my
car, and I’m afraid of my son getting
out of the car,” said Jeff Raheb.
Last year, some Slopers warned
the city that redesigning Ninth
Street would do little to protect pedestrians
if offi cials did not simultaneously
crack down on truckers
who illegally use the local street
as a thoroughfare into Southern
Brooklyn.
And those predictions are coming
true, according to a crossing
guard for Sixth Avenue’s PS 39 between
Eighth and Ninth streets,
who said truckers that in the past
used Ninth Street as an illicit
shortcut now drive even closer to
the school down Eighth Street, because
the redesign of Ninth Street
narrowed its driving lanes, resulting
in more traffi c.
“I have huge trucks coming
down, making wide turns. It’s inconvenient
and it’s dangerous,”
said the crossing guard, who only
gave her name as Liz. “It’s not just
my life, I’m there for the kids.”
Other locals, of course, blasted
the Department of Transportation
for removing 26 Ninth Street
parking spaces to accommodate
the redesign, claiming the agency
scheme to make the street safer
came at car owners’ expense.
“The DOT overkill, without
any community involvement, was
let’s make it safe and take parking
spaces without any regard to
the people living here,” said Ninth
Street resident the Hon. Bernard
Graham, who serves as a judge
on the Kings County Supreme
Court.
Safe-street advocates also
turned up for the meeting, one of
whom did his best to sow chaos
among the disgruntled Ninth
Streeters by interrupting them as
they spoke, and at one point accusing
Manning of pulling information
“out of her a--,” a comment
that almost induced a fi st fi ght
with Raheb.
Other proponents of the new
bike lanes, however, argued their
points more civilly and effectively,
citing city studies that show how
dedicated pedalers’ paths reduce
injuries and fatalities.
“These protected bike lanes
really in every case have been
proven to protect the safety of not
just bicyclists, but everyone, including
pedestrians, and drivers
too,” said William Farrell, a traffi
c engineer who lives in Boerum
Hill.
And most in the room praised
Adams for being the only elected
offi cial willing to entertain their
complaints, after Park Slope’s
Councilman Brad Lander and
Assemblyman Robert Carroll declined
to attend the meeting, according
to Manning.
CURSE THEE: Ninth Street resident
Jeff Raheb, left, confronted a safestreets
advocate who interrupted
some speakers at the recent meeting
about the bike lanes.
Photo by Colin Mixson
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