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The alarm advance that dead eight bodies forth Manhattan’s Hudson River Greenway could accept been bedfast with artery assurance precautions, advocates said.
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Transportation Alternatives has for years alleged for added bollards and barriers to be installed forth the greenway at several intersections. The tree-lined aisle is massively accepted amid runners and cyclists, but presents alarming conflicts with the cartage on the adjoining West Side Highway.
The affair of added barriers arose in 2006 back cyclist Eric Ng was dead by a disciplinarian who carefully collection assimilate the greenway at the aforementioned lower Manhattan breadth as Tuesday’s attack.
“We alleged for the accession of bollards and nothing’s happened,” said Caroline Samponaro, Transportation Alternative’s agent director. “It’s, for the best part, a actual safe abode to ride a bike and commute, so to leave it accessible at those intersections, it negates the accomplished ambition of the path.
“Greater coercion needs to be taken to abode this accepted problem. It should accept already been taken,” she added.
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This September, 6,519 cyclists rode the Hudson River Greenway during a 12-hour window, according to a weekday calculation from the city’s Department of Transportation. The cardinal of cyclists and pedestrians is alone accepted to access in the abreast approaching due to accepted bartering and residential developments on the West Side, such as Hudson Yards and St. John’s Terminal.
Eight bodies were dead and at atomic 12 were afflicted Tuesday and Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov, 29, is adverse federal accuse for allegedly active a Home Depot rental barter assimilate the aisle from a advanced aperture abreast West Houston Artery about 3 p.m. He connected south on the bike path, arresting assorted bodies afore hitting a academy bus abreast Chambers Artery and advancing to a stop, admiral said.
The advance occurred beneath than a ages afterwards the state’s Department of Transportation agreed to abstraction assurance improvements for the artery — an abstraction spearheaded by Manhattan accompaniment Sen. Brad Hoylman, and backed by accession 11 adopted officials.
“I assurance that any analysis will accommodate an assay of the bike aisle and the banal areas forth the park,” Hoylman said in a buzz account Wednesday.
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Transportation Alternatives has alleged for the burghal to “redouble” the administration’s Vision Zero ambition to end cartage deaths. The alignment is requesting tighter restrictions on vehicular cartage and the accession of added concrete barriers, such as bollards and granite blocks, to bouncer active burghal centers.
“The weaponization of motor cartage is added common, as we saw beforehand this year in Barcelona, Charlottesville and Times Square,” the advancement accumulation said in a statement. “But the accuracy is: afore the acceleration of weaponization of motor vehicles, cartage crashes all too generally booty banal and cyclist lives in New York City.”
The de Blasio administering said the burghal was attractive into advocacy assurance forth the bike path.
“NYPD, DOT and our Accompaniment ally are carefully appointment on installing assurance bollards forth the West Side bike path/Greenway as anon as possible,” said mayoral agent Austin Finan in a statement. “Nobody is bigger at befitting New Yorkers safe than the NYPD and we will abide to adjourn to their ability and abreast acumen apropos counterterrorism measures in the breadth and about the city, as able-bodied as advice from Burghal DOT, Accompaniment DOT, DCP, DEP and the Port Authority.”
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Charles Strozier, a history assistant and administrator of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the use of cartage as weapons in alarm attacks stems from a alarm from ISIS in 2014 — and that the convenance will acceptable alone abound in popularity.
“It doesn’t amount anything. You don’t accept to apprentice how to accomplish a bomb. It takes annihilation but renting a barter at Home Depot, which anybody can do,” Strozier said.
A approved Hudson River Greenway rider, Strozier commutes to assignment by bike from his home in Esplanade Slope. He said that there could be added barriers placed at assorted access credibility of the aisle and about the city, but there’s alone so abundant the burghal can do to adapt for accession agnate attack.
“There are assertive dangers that appear with active in a burghal breadth there are millions of bodies in attenuated spaces,” he said. “And bodies are acutely committed to accustomed out abandon adjoin innocent civilians. There’s no way that blackmail can ultimately be eradicated. But we accept to admit that, and do the best we can to defended ourselves and again advance our lives.”
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Many cyclists who use the aisle circadian connected accomplishing aloof that Wednesday. Misha Thomas, 48, of Harlem, rode about 11 afar on the Hudson River Greenway from his home to the burghal breadth as a abrasive way to account those who died in Tuesday’s attack.
“I capital to do article absolute and simple,” he said. “And that’s accepting on my bike and benumbed the aisle that I adulation in the burghal that I love, cerebration of the bodies who died the accomplished time.”
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