Disabled NYC residents claim Upper West Side bike lane plan will make them ‘virtual shut-ins,’ lawsuit says

Source: New York Post

Disabled Upper West Side residents are suing to block the city’s controversial redesign of West 72nd Street, escalating the battle over a planned protected bike lane there that locals have fiercely opposed. The complaint, filed Friday in Manhattan federal court, names seven plaintiffs — including a blind woman — who live on the popular main thoroughfare and use wheelchairs, scooters, canes and walkers to get around. The group says the new street design — which will cut the number of vehicular traffic lanes from four to two while shifting the current buffer of parking away from the curb to install a two-way bike lane — will make them “virtual shut-ins.