The 25-year-old woman was the 14th cyclist to be killed this year as the Transportation Department looks to make good on a promise to build more protected bike lanes citywide.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.A bicyclist was struck and killed by the driver of a tractor-trailer in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, the NYPD said.
In a joint statement with advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, City Councilmember Rita Joseph, who represents the Brooklyn district where the incident occurred, said the city needs to do more in the name of safer city streets. Parkside Avenue is not a designated truck route, according to the city’s own truck route maps. The busy route, between Coney Island and Ocean Avenue, recorded 161 injuries over the past five years, including 28 bicyclists and 25 pedestrians, killing or seriously injuring 10 people per mile between 2014 and 2018, Transportation Alternatives said.
“Anywhere you go, the bike lane is as likely to blocked as not,” he said. “Personally, when I’m riding, I’m often in the bike lane, but on certain blocks, I know the bike lane’s going to be blocked. In those cases, you’re just as unsafe in the bike lane as you are out of it.
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