Transportation Alternatives: In 2018, $50 million was allocated to DOT to install 1,500 bollards. At a hearing last week, DOT admitted that only about half of those bollards had been installed and none since 2020. We must use infrastructure to protect people from harm.

We are horrified and heartbroken by this senseless traffic violence. No one should fear death or injury on our streets or in our parks. We send our deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed and wish for a full recovery to those injured.

Truck driver in Manhattan plows into barbecue crowd at park, leaves four critically wounded | amNewYorkwww.amny.com Nine people enjoying a July 4 barbecue in a Lower Manhattan park were injured when the driver of a pickup truck rammed through a fence and mowed them down,

In 2018, $50 million was allocated to DOT to install 1,500 bollards. At a hearing last week, DOT admitted that only about half of those bollards had been installed and none since 2020. We must use infrastructure to protect people from harm.

Any idea why permanent bollards are still missing from West Side Greenway? Half of them are still temporary concrete dividers.

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