
Democratic nominee for mayor Eric Adams is promising to build 300 new miles of protected bike lanes across the five boroughs if he wins the Nov. 2 election.
Receiving the endorsement of bike and transit group StreetsPAC in Manhattan on Tuesday, Adams also told reporters he would ride his bike to work as mayor to encourage other New Yorkers to do the same.
“If elected, you’re going to see me on my bike all the time, riding to and from City Hall, in a real way,” he said. “We need to move and get 300 miles of protected bike lanes. I have close friends that won’t even ride their bikes because they’re so afraid, and so intimidated. This is the opportunity to do so. You’re going to need a bike rider to know why protected bike lanes are so important.”
Adams’ transportation platform also includes pledges to expand Citi Bike, secure bike parking and to “reallocate 25 percent of the city’s streetscape by 2025 from car-centric uses” to things like bike lanes, bus lanes, sidewalks, parks and plazas, according to his campaign website.
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this city is transforming from a real city to a tofu eating, tree hugging, bike riding European pansy city!!
He just lost my vote. I’ll vote for the Sliwa now.
Good, and let him budget for bicycling classes, repair classes, and common courtesy. Bicyclists need protected lanes as SUVs and box trucks are out of control, even for pedestrians. Add to this licensing and insurance from bicycle drivers – it’s a vehicle too. Maybe this will be the first step in reclaiming governance.
he lost my vote.
he is the endorsed candidate of FJCC as is Steve Saperstein but am not sure which Rabbanim are backing either.
Sick man. Does he want to bring this City to a complete standstill?! Is this his biggest concern? We can’t allow this anti cop backstabber to become Mayor.
>>> “We need to move and get 300 miles of protected bike lanes.”
Welcome change: a candidate who is an expert on picking random numbers out of his hat.
Wow. So no comment on crime. No comment on citizens being thrown onto the train tracks by drugged out homeless bums. No commitment to incarcerate his ilk that destroyed our city during the BLM takeover. All this charlatan cares about is some woke bike lanes?!
He lost my whole community vote we can no longer live in this city
the death and and accident rate is over the top , this is bad news he is not who he promised to be
no place to park , no place for business to deliver goods , no place to cross safely
definitely Sliwa for now how can so many turn their backs in last minute
a world of lies so so sad
There are already many more miles of car lanes. It is long overdue to take steps to correct the imbalance and favoritism given to car lanes.
Also, the city gives free use of public space on its streets to cars for parking overnight, etc. It is time that the lopsided favoritism accorded to dangerous polluting (air pollution, noise pollution, etc.) cars, SUV’s, trucks is reexamined.
Right. So the next time you order a couch or refrigerator, it’ll be delivered by bicycle. No more of those evil cars or trucks. Did you fall on your head?
So because you get a delivery for a refrigerator once in ten or twenty years, we cannot have more bike lanes? Did you breathe too much carbon monoxide while stewing in multiple traffic jams today?
Tell me, how often do you get a new refrigerator? How many refrigerators are delivered on your block in a typical day?