Call for Bike Lane After Fatal Accident

Transportation Alternatives is calling on the city to put a bike lane on Flatbush Avenue after  an 18-year-old cyclist was dragged and killed by a driver there on Wednesday.

“[A Flatbush Avenue bike lane] is definitely something worth serious consideration,” Transportation Alternatives spokesman Wiley Norvell told the Brooklyn Paper. “It’s a dangerous street for bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists as well. It would definitely be a design challenge, but that’s what we have traffic engineers for.”

Norvell said a bike lane stretching from the tip of the Manhattan Bridge in Downtown all the way to the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in Marine Park would not only help calm traffic, but “link the borough together” for bicyclists.

“It’s a critical corridor — if it was made safe for cycling, it would be utterly transformative,” he said.