Mayor de Blasio has previously defended the practice of ticketing cyclists in the days after a driver runs over someone. But poorly designed streets in New York—especially the wide avenues that run north and south in Manhattan like the one where Hightman was run over—often physically push cyclists out of the bike lane, or make it a less safe option than simply riding in the road. While the New York Department of Transportation has added 10s of km of bike lanes throughout the city in recent years, they are often unusable for more than 1 block or 2 at a time because of obstructions.

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