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Council Member Brooks-Powers addresses concerns about DOT's bike lane implementation and community engagement
2:28:50
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Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers expresses frustration with the Department of Transportation's (DOT) implementation of bike lanes and community engagement in her district. She highlights a specific example of a problematic bike lane installation on Beach Twentieth Street in Rockaway and criticizes the agency's approach to meeting street plan mandates.
- Brooks-Powers points out a disconnect between the agency and the community, emphasizing the need for better coordination.
- She mentions an incident where NYPD was towing cars, affecting local merchants' ability to receive merchandise.
- The council member indicates her intention to follow up with the DOT office on these issues.
Selvena Brooks-Powers
2:28:50
Thank you and I just wanted to just put a pin in, we'll pick this back up in another hearing in terms of the agency's inability to meet the streets plan mandates and the consistent blaming of the members in terms of, you know, where they're being located.
2:29:11
While we've been in this hearing along Beach Twentieth Street in Rockaway where there's a bike lane to we're call it the bike lane of nowhere because it's literally one one bike lane that doesn't go beyond that one block and NYPD was out there today towing cars.
2:29:28
So the merchants have been unable to get their merchandise there.
2:29:34
There's a disconnect with the agency in the community that really has to be worked through and so I will follow-up with your office, but again I just wanted to put a pin in that in terms of an example when we're often pointed at in terms of the agency's inability to meet its goal yet the agency placed a bike lane on one block that's not connected to anything that did not have community support but yet still did that.
2:30:04
So I thank the agency for its testimony today and look forward to following up on that.