"In a strongly worded letter sent to the DEA on Tuesday, a panoply of pols slammed the federal agency for installing weighted barriers on 10th Avenue between 16th and 17th street to create a private parking zone for DEA workers - a practice that denies New Yorkers a new, state-of-the-art wide bike lane that the city Department of Transportation installed after full outreach to a community bereft from thousands of preventable crashes, and more than 1,500 injuries in the last few years."
""Your agency's unilateral blockade of this single block, using cones, barricades, and placarded vehicles, has created a dangerous gap in this critical network. Cyclists are forced into vehicular traffic lanes, negating the very safety improvements the community and city fought to achieve," read the letter, which was spearheaded by Council Member Erik Bottcher, but also signed by Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Rep. Jerry Nadler, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and Assembly Member Tony Simone."
"The narcotic enforcement agency's New York headquarters is located at 99 10th Avenue - and that's where you'll find what Streetsblog has dubbed, "This is your bike lane on drugs": orange construction barricades and cones placed by the agency keep cyclists away and to allow DEA officers to park illegally against the curb. The practice has been going on since at least 2009, records show."
Elected officials at local, state, and federal levels condemned the Drug Enforcement Administration for installing weighted barriers on 10th Avenue between 16th and 17th Streets to create a private parking zone for DEA workers. The barriers block a new state-of-the-art wide protected bike lane installed by the city Department of Transportation after extensive outreach and in response to thousands of preventable crashes and over 1,500 injuries. The blockade forces cyclists and delivery workers into vehicular lanes, creating dangerous gaps in the bike network. The DEA headquarters at 99 10th Avenue has used orange barricades and cones to park officers illegally, a practice documented since at least 2009.
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