A bike-lane offer New Yorkers can’t refuse – Latest News
At least one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s charter-reform proposals is simply one other reminder that City Hall doesn’t need New Yorkers to have a say — it simply needs them to obey.
Voters in November completely ought to nix Question 3 from the mayor’s Commission on Government Efficiency: It’s offered as rushing up bike-lane creation by 33% — however does so by chopping public complaints out of the method.
So in the event you don’t just like the bike lane coming to your neighborhood, robust luck.
This poll measure would amend the City Charter to let the Department of Transportation proceed with out public review or criticism if DOT decides a bike lane is an “immediate need.”
As if DOT hadn’t already rammed by way of a whole lot of miles of these lanes with out a lot weighing of native objections — overriding particular complaints from firefighters, business house owners, seniors and disabled residents and on and on.
But Team Mamdani loves the hipsters who love their bikes, so its reply to New Yorkers apprehensive about shedding parking, curb entry or loading space for native companies is . . . to silence them.
The metropolis has roughly 1,500 miles of these lanes, 900 of them “protected” ones, with 30-plus more initiatives underway — all to serve simply the ten% of residents who bike.
Mamdani promised to spend taxpayer {dollars} on initiatives that benefit taxpayers — however some taxpayers are more equal than others.
To a Democratic Socialist, it appears, “democracy” means declaring a lot of the public a mere nuisance, whose solely position is to close up and obey.
