Bike path pushers to rally at foot of Verrazano Bridge
MTA looks at building walkway on Brooklyn-Staten Island span
Buoyed by news that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is looking into the possibility of installing bike-pedestrian lanes on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, two environmental activist groups will hold a rally on the Bay Ridge side of the Brooklyn-Staten Island span on Saturday to boost public support for the idea.
Transportation Alternatives and the Harbor Ring Committee will gather on Shore Parkway and Fourth Avenue at noon on Oct. 10 to call on the MTA to move forward with a plan to put a walkway on the bridge.
Paul Gertner, a member of the Harbor Ring Committee, told the Brooklyn Eagle that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst) will be among the speakers at the rally.