{"id":429901,"date":"2025-12-07T00:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/429901\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:39:40","slug":"judge-orders-removal-of-bike-lane-in-astoria-after-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/429901\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders removal of bike lane in Astoria after lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months after a new protected bike lane was partially installed in Queens, a judge has now ruled the city must remove it.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, more than a dozen businesses filed a lawsuit against the city.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Months after a new protected bike lane was partially installed in Queens, a judge has now ruled the city must remove it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in August, more than a dozen businesses filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming\u00a0the lane on 31st Street in Astoria between 31st Avenue and Newtown Avenue would impede parking, pickup and deliveries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The judge in the case ruled the city Department of Transportation was \u201cin violation of lawful procedure\u201d when it installed the bike lane, and now must \u201ctake all steps reasonably necessary\u201d to restore the street to how it was in August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The DOT says the 31st Street corridor has a high number of serious and fatal crashes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The ruling gives the city 30 days to comply<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>They claimed the lane on 31st Street in Astoria between 31st Avenue and Newtown Avenue would impede parking, pickup and deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also claimed it would create a safety hazard for pedestrians, and that concerns were ignored by the city before a partial installation moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>In court paperwork obtained by NY1, the judge in the case ruled the city Department of Transportation was \u201cin violation of lawful procedure\u201d when it installed the bike lane, and now must \u201ctake all steps reasonably necessary\u201d to restore the street to how it was prior to August of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling gives the city 30 days to comply. The DOT says the 31st Street corridor has a high number of serious and fatal crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed bike lanes were intended to address safety needs by better organizing traffic and improving visibility, while keeping vehicles moving.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Furnas, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group that supports expansion of the city\u2019s bike lane network, said in a statement, \u201cThis is a reprehensible decision that will put New Yorkers in danger. We trust that the City will swiftly appeal, and that safety, legal precedent, and common sense will win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furnas was recently tapped to serve on the mayoral transition team of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Mirabella of the 31st Street Business Association said the group is \u201cwaiting to do a press release as the decision hasn\u2019t been formally filed yet,\u201d and are aiming to speak to media starting Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Months after a new protected bike lane was partially installed in Queens, a judge has now ruled the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":429902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,23953,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,55432,13570,52,26304,11900,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-429901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-app-traffic-transit","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-olivia-leach","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-traffic-and-transit","22":"tag-transit","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115675500761449617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}