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Old November 2nd 17, 05:08 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Frank Krygowski[_4_]
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Default NY bike path mayhem

On 11/2/2017 1:48 AM, wrote:

the stan is not a 'nut'



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/n...ck-attack.html

Where Mr. Saipov exited the bike path at Chambers Street is another notoriously risky intersection. In June 2016, a cyclist, Olga Cook, was killed there when an allegedly intoxicated driver made a right turn from the West Side Highway, crossing the greenway. At least 17 other cyclists or pedestrians had been injured there in the preceding five years.
Daniel Flanzig, a personal injury lawyer who has handled multiple cases on behalf of bicyclists killed or injured on the bike path, including Ms. Cook’s case, said there was a clear need to make the path safer.
“Everyone’s first reaction yesterday was to have bollards put onto the bike path,” he said. “It makes sense.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/n...pgtype=article


*#@%! Locally, we've got an incompetently designed two-way bike lane in
a park. It forces cyclists to thread through bollards at every place a
motorist might choose to pull over and park. We've been telling the park
for years that those things are collision hazards and actual fatality
hazards, because cyclists have been killed running into bollards.

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