EDITORIAL

TERRIBLE, AVOIDABLE, HUGE LOSS . . .

This past week we all experienced a huge loss with the tragic accident having claimed Natasha Fox’s life! Not to say city hall, nor one specific individual, is responsible but in our opinion, it was avoidable, and largely because our city fathers, by that we mean city council and our mayor (ironically oft referred to as “bike lane Charlie”), and the administration, by that we mean transportation department, continue to fail us with their indecision and inaction! For years, we have endured their gong show mismanagement of the ongoing biking dilemma, one which we have all faced and continue to face with no apparent solution in sight despite the obvious one . . . widening sidewalks to accommodate pedestrians, bikes and now scooters! We know this works because they’ve done it before. Best example is that of the Victoria Street hill ascending from the bridge, designed to do just that!!! Meanwhile, after miserably failing to effect bike lanes on 4th Avenue and elsewhere, their lame attempt at biking lanes has left us with the laughable 23rd Street four block legacy to the farcical!
Surely, the civic administration’s planning policy of “monkey-seeing, monkey-doing” that of other cities and their questionable solutions, can effectively divide our streets, avenues and sidewalks so as to protect its citizens, at very least!!!