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On Friday, Mayor Eric Adams announced he is removing a three-block section of a protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue that was installed just eight months ago to make a notoriously dangerous stretch of road in Brooklyn safer.
If the mayor gets his way, the stretch of Bedford from Willoughby Avenue to Flushing Avenue, which goes through the predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of South Williamsburg, would go from a protected bike lane, to what it was before—a dangerous, unprotected bike lane next to three lanes of speeding traffic.