Mayor Mamdani on Monday cited vague “legal requirements” to explain his continued inaction to reverse his predecessor Eric Adams’s backroom decision to erase three blocks of the protected bike lane on Brooklyn’s Bedford Avenue.
Asked at an unrelated press conference why he has yet to follow-through on his campaign pledge to bring back the removed protections for cyclists, Mamdani said “legal requirements” could derail the effort if city officials aren’t careful — even as his administration has moved quickly to implement street redesigns blocked by his predecessor, often as part of quid-pro-quo deals or, as federal authorities charged, outright corruption.
“We are following up on a lot of the different projects that were either paused or canceled by the prior administration,” Hizzoner told Streetsblog on Monday. “And we are also looking to ensure that the way that we are going about doing so is one that is both in line with the legal requirements and also in line with ensuring that those projects will be durable for not just the short term, but the medium term and the long term.”…