{"id":218591,"date":"2026-05-03T23:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:17:10","slug":"nail-biting-video-shows-reckless-nyc-drivers-go-wrong-way-on-highway-to-dodge-five-boro-bike-tour-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218591\/","title":{"rendered":"Nail-biting video shows reckless NYC drivers go wrong way on highway to dodge Five Boro Bike Tour traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nail-biting video shows fed-up Brooklyn drivers head the wrong way on the highway in a reckless move to avoid gridlock traffic from the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour. <\/p>\n<p>Video of the chaos posted on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wmsbg\/status\/2050954373845377139?s=46&amp;t=62Pu2WyATtQLHpytY7B0eg\" rel=\"nofollow\">by the Williamsburg News<\/a> shows cars stranded \u2014 some face to face \u2014 as outraged drivers opted to go the wrong way on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near the Wythe Avenue exit Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of cyclists \u2014 including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u2014 participated <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/01\/us-news\/tbi-survivor-to-ride-5-boro-bike-tour-after-relearning-to-ride\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the 40-mile ride<\/a> that spans all of the Big Apple\u2019s boroughs.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vehicles are seen driving the wrong way on the BQE by the Wythe Ave exit as the BQE is closed due to the NYC Bike Tour taking place now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3mTTkuOFT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Z3mTTkuOFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WILLIAMSBURG NEWS (@WMSBG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMSBG\/status\/2050954373845377139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event, which dates back to 1977, caused multiple major bridges and roadways to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey close streets and highways AND BRIDGES so these people can ride their dam bikes!!!! WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS CITY?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StevenB04455954\/status\/2050982008914886859\" rel=\"nofollow\">raged Steven Bush on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNYC is not a biking city,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HoldenCal36\/status\/2050977114313154812\" rel=\"nofollow\">another chimed in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others dismissed the mess as nothing more than an inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39270782\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vehicles-seen-driving-wrong-way-126927578.jpg\" alt=\"The bike route is 40 miles across all of the city's boroughs.\" class=\"wp-image-39270782\"  \/>The bike route is 40 miles across all of the city\u2019s boroughs. WMSBG\/X<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis happens for a short time, one day, once a year. Get over it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Angry_NYCyclist\/status\/2050990655543931131\" rel=\"nofollow\">one user posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While participating in part of the popular bike riding event, Mamdani bashed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as \u201ccruel and inhumane\u201d hours after a violent clash erupted between anti-ICE protesters and cops outside a Brooklyn hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do nothing to serve in the interest of public safety, and I\u2019ve said that even directly to the president,\u201d Hizzoner\u00a0said of the federal immigration agents.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nail-biting video shows fed-up Brooklyn drivers head the wrong way on the highway in a reckless move to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12748,57,9,24,55,54,56,63,2023,58,82],"class_list":["post-218591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-biking","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-traffic","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218591","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=218591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}