Waste of Time: Full-Salaried NYPD Cops Now Needed to Enforce the Unprotected Bedford Avenue Bike Lane

They ran out of tickets!

Officers from the 79th Precinct were busy trying to save cyclists and bust illegal parkers on the newly unprotected stretch of Bedford Avenue, but had to stop issuing summonses because they ran out of them.

One day after Streetsblog alerted city officials to the danger presented by illegal parkers filling the painted bike lane between Willoughby and Flushing avenues, two officers were performing some of the rarest of police actions: responding to 311 complaints of illegal parking in a bike lane and trying to move car drivers along…

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