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Long-Awaited 6th Avenue Bike Lane Opens In Midtown
The protected lane is a victory for bike advocates and carries some sweet irony, since a lane on the same spot was ripped out 40 years ago.

Nick Garber, Patch Staff

Posted Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:09 pm ET

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Transit advocates rejoiced on Wednesday as the city ceremonially opened a long-awaited bike lane along Sixth Avenue in Midtown.


The protected lane stretches from 59th Street at the southern end of Central Park down to West 35th Street, running along the west side of the avenue. Officials including Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg held a ribbon-cutting Wednesday morning at the corner of Sixth and 55th Street.

The opening is a victory for bike advocates, as well as Midtown City Councilmember Keith Powers, who said the normally-busy throughfare was unsafe for cyclists, and called on the city in January to extend Sixth Avenue's protected lanes all the way to Central Park, past their existing terminus at 33rd Street.

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