""I've experienced this myself," he said of the dropoff, which he called "a veritable gauntlet of cycling punishment.""
""seen many, many videos, tweets, and also heard from many New Yorkers as well. I love biking across the city and I also know that we make it more difficult than it has to be," Mamdani said."
""This is not going to be the extent of the work that we do, but when we were having conversations about what the first few days of the administration could look like, we realized that this is something that need not wait, even for us to have the additional conversations about larger streetscape changes," he said. "This is something we can do immediately, so that's what we've done.""
Mayor Mamdani donned work gloves and joined a Department of Transportation crew to level the Williamsburg Bridge "bump" at the Manhattan end of the bridge bike path. The asphalt fix is the first step in a $70-million full redesign scheduled to begin this fall. Mamdani emphasized both large infrastructure changes and small, immediate fixes to improve conditions for cyclists and said he speaks from personal experience. He noted widespread public attention and pledged further improvements, including finishing the McGuinness Boulevard redesign and prioritizing additional streetscape safety projects.
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