"Different neighborhood, same story. The city is once again halting a modest proposal for unprotected bike lanes in Brooklyn, this time in Midwood, after the all-too-familiar backlash from some car-focused locals. Department of Transportation honchos recently told local electeds they would pause the proposed network of unprotected bike lane in the southern Brooklyn's Community Board 14 that has been in the works for at least four years, frustrating residents who want to safely travel around without a car."
"DOT had planned to install painted bike lanes going east-west and north-south in the district this summer and fall, but will back off the bulk of the project in the southern section, following a closed-door meeting over the summer between politicians and Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, members of CB14 said at their full board meeting on Monday. "Based on the feedback and the conversation, it was decided ... there will be no further movement on that bike lane in the south.""
"This sudden reversal comes after one of the area's lawmakers, Republican Council Member Inna Vernikov, boasted in the spring of her ability to stop the agency's "woke agenda." CB14 has virtually no safe cycling infrastructure, with just a small section of the nation's oldest bike path on Ocean Parkway. The Adams administration's backpedal mirrors a similar watering down of a project to install a set of protected bike lanes on Kingston and Brooklyn avenues in Wingate"
Department of Transportation officials paused a planned network of painted, unprotected bike lanes in southern Brooklyn's Community Board 14 after local backlash. The proposal had been in development for at least four years and would have added east-west and north-south lanes this summer and fall, but the DOT will not move forward with most of the southern section following a closed-door meeting involving Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and area elected officials. Community members and safety advocates expressed disappointment, noting CB14 has almost no cycling infrastructure beyond a short Ocean Parkway path. The reversal mirrors a prior watering down of protected lanes in Wingate.
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