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Sharing the Bike Path with Cars on Hudson River Greenway
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John Del Signore
Published May 27, 2010
Modified May 27, 2010
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A tipster sent us this photo taken today on the Hudson River Greenway. To the untrained eye nothing seems out of the ordinary here: bikes and cars sharing the road in Utopian harmony. But although it looks like a normal street, this is actually a bike path; the car here is supposed to be over on the left on the West Side Highway. What makes this really galling is that this photo was taken on the same bike path where a drunk driver killed 22-year-old cyclist Eric Ng back in 2006.
In that incident, the driver, Eugenio Cidron, left Chelsea Piers and drove nearly a mile on the bike path before killing Ng. Cidron was later sentenced to three to 10 years in prison. Cidron had driven over a plastic pylon to enter the path, and though he was intoxicated, the fact that this keeps happening suggests that maybe DOT should do something to make the bike path more obvious to the stupid/wasted eye.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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