Lower Manhattan politicians want the city to build a protected bike lane linking the cycle tracks on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Hudson River Greenway. The proposal includes a request for the Department of Transportation to rule out Chambers Street. Chambers Street is described as the only direct connection and as the route many cyclists currently use. The street is characterized as a traffic-clogged area that creates significant misery for riders. The situation is framed as a conflict between pursuing an indirect, inconvenient route and confronting entrenched interests associated with the current conditions on Chambers Street.
"Lower Manhattan politicians want the city to create a protected bike lane linking the popular cycle tracks on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Hudson River Greenway. The bad news? The pols specifically want DOT to rule out Chambers Street, even though that's the only direct link and it's the route many cyclists are currently taking, even though it is a traffic-clogged maelstrom of misery."
"So we sent Editor Gersh Kuntzman out into the fray to see if the pols are right to seek an indirect, inconvenient route rather than take on the entrenched placard elite that ruins Chambers for all of us."
Read at Streetsblog New York City
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