Last Friday, elected officials and local street safety activists held a press conference to raise awareness of the stalled rollout of the McGuinness Boulevard redesign.
Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, City Council Member Lincoln Restler, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and a representative from Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez’s office spoke at the event, flanked by advocates holding signs of loved ones lost to traffic violence on the busy street.
Local teacher Matthew Jensen was fatally…
What happened to that poor man who passed away had nothing to do with bike lanes or trucks. Stop using that to push your agenda. Businesses in Brooklyn and Queens need trucks and if you block the only main artery to trucks where do you expect them to go? It will push more trucks on side roads, the exact reason McGuiness was widened in the first part in the 50’s.