What was once a routine ride down Bedford Avenue is now raising serious safety concerns among cyclists, with some saying the stretch has become dangerous territory.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn absolute warzone of a place to ride through. Someone is going to get hurt because of these bike lanes,\u201d said cyclist Jake Missen.<\/p>\n
The frustration follows changes made last July, when sections of the protected bike lane were removed after a prolonged push-and-pull between city leaders, including former Mayor Eric Adams, and street safety advocates.<\/p>\n
Riders say the difference is stark.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turned this into a very, like, comfortable and safe, like bike corridor. Now that they’ve taken out the protected bike lane – riding down this road just isn’t safe anymore,\u201d Missen said.<\/p>\n
The redesign has left many questioning whether safety was compromised, especially after Adams previously said the changes would \u201creflect community feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes no sense at all. It’s supposed to be safe, but if you look at the bike lane, it’s completely backed by cars and every biker is using the car lane – it’s dangerous,\u201d said cyclist Franciso Barretto.<\/p>\n
Data showing nearly 100 crashes since the redesign is only fueling those concerns, with cyclists now urging the city to take action.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of my hopes for this area is that something like the city is held responsible for the unsafe situation that they’ve created here,\u201d Missen added.<\/p>\n
In response, the Department of Transportation says it is moving forward with reinstating and expanding street safety efforts, with additional projects expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What was once a routine ride down Bedford Avenue is now raising serious safety concerns among cyclists, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[13929,13930,10483,98,100,99,9,24,63,3738,1424],"class_list":{"0":"post-183899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bike-lane","9":"tag-bike-lanes","10":"tag-bikes","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-taking-action","18":"tag-williamsburg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}