Many cyclists are reporting being hurt after riding into string drawn at neck- and head-level across the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, according to the Gothamist.
None of the recent riders were seriously hurt, but the latest incident has led to more questions for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and police, who so far have not said why this keeps happening, the news site said.
In each case, cyclists reported biking across the bridge — which spans across Rockaway Inlet in Queens and connects the peninsula to Brooklyn — and not seeing the string until it was too late.
Some riders have theorized that it could be a runaway string from local “kite fighting” contests or a fishing line caught in the bridge’s infrastructure. Some voiced the possibility that it was intentionally set to hurt bikers using the bridge’s narrow walkway, Gothamist said.
Bicycling across the Marine Parkway Bridge is common, but is actually forbidden by the MTA, which asks riders to dismount and walk.
