Emergency Response Times Increased due to Street Additions

                      Emergency Response Times Expanded Costing Lives

                            This is a piece from the NY Post detailing how the various

                     additions to street archetecture-bike lanes, Bike racks,outdoor dining

                     shacks have made it diffiicult to impossible for emergency vehicles to

                    negotiate the streets to respond to emergencies. Fire trucks and EMS

                    vehicles are burdened and response times have expanded. Deaths have

                    resulted and will continue to result. Unnecessary. Akin to the unnecessary

                    deaths resulting from a city without a responsible 2 wheeled culture.

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"Critics point to the Big Apple’s controversial street-closure and outdoor-dining programs aimed at boosting economic recovery during the pandemic. They also blame new bike lines, road barriers and other anti-car policies made under former Mayor de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative aimed at reducing traffic deaths.

“When you see the amount of construction with the bike lanes and those issues in certain areas, you have instances where these long [fire] trucks can no longer make the turn onto or off of a block,” said Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniform Firefighters Association. 

“It definitely causes delays, and delays cost lives.”

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