‘Vision Zero Cannot be a Bumper Sticker, it Has to be a Reality’: Officials Hold Vigil for Ernest Askew in Brownsville
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Bklyner
Local politicians, cycling advocates and family members of the victim of a recent fatal cycling crash gathered Monday to mourn and call on the mayor to improve street design across the city.
State Senator Zellnor Myrie, whose district includes Brownsville and Crown Heights, said the city has “neglected the people who choose to transport by bicycle.”
For Myrie, this is evidence of “the built-in racism and classism that is our transportation system as it exists right now.”
