An appellate court judge on Tuesday blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams from removing a three-block stretch of protected bike lanes from Bedford Avenue after a lower court judge sided last week with the city.
Judge Lourdes M. Ventura issued a temporary restraining order in response to an appeal filed by Transportation Alternatives and Brooklyn resident Baruch Herzfeld, who together sued the city after the mayor attempted to remove the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue, between Willoughby and Flushing Avenues, in June to appease residents in Williamsburg.
Cycling advocates cheered the TRO.
“The bulldozers might be ready to destroy the Bedford Avenue safety improvements, but the Adams administration is going to have to spend their night preparing their legal case, not ripping out a critical safety project and central Brooklyn’s only protected bike lane," said Ben Furnas, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives.
