"The enforcement sting came one day after Mayor Mamdani joined a Department of Transportation crew to ceremoniously shoveled the last scoops of blacktop onto the once-dangerous bump at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge bike path terminus in Manhattan on Tuesday, the first step in a $70-million full redesign of the dangerous area that will begin this fall. Wags on the internet called the smoother exit path the "Zohramp" in tribute to the mayor."
"Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch apparently did not get that memo, given that enforcement against cyclists continued. Tisch, a holdover from the Adams administration, altered NYPD policy last year to have cops give cyclists criminal summonses for minor traffic violations, instead of standard traffic tickets. Car drivers still only receive traffic tickets for the same offenses, even though motorists cause the vast majority of carnage on city streets."
Police issued tickets to cyclists on the Williamsburg Bridge bike path even before the new asphalt fully dried, hours after Mayor Mamdani pledged to stop punishing cyclists forced to break laws by unsafe infrastructure. Officers ticketed riders who ran a red at Delancey and Suffolk, an intersection with no cross traffic that encourages treating the light like a stop sign. The mayor had joined DOT workers to finish a temporary repair ahead of a $70 million redesign. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch maintained enforcement, having changed policy to allow criminal summonses for cyclists while motorists receive only traffic tickets.
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