Time to get bikes off the road
Manhattan:
It’s not safe for cyclists in this city, and it never will be. A
thousand miles of protected bike lanes wouldn’t have prevented the
tragic death of Devra Freelander. She was hit going through an
intersection.
The
city has narrowed our already attenuated streets and slowed traffic to a
crawl to accommodate cycling and it hasn’t made pedestrians, drivers or
cyclists any safer. Traffic fatalities are on the rise again and
accidents resulting in injuries have skyrocketed.
Cars
are more dangerous than bikes, but adding bicyclists to the mix, many
of whom refuse to obey traffic laws, has compounded the hazard with new
and unpredictable threats.
The
bike experiment has failed. It’s high time we cut our losses, remove
the lanes, and throw Citi Bike in the dustbin of history where it
belongs. Gary Taustine
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