Out-Of-Touch Politicians, Gounardes and Brannan Keep Writing Op-Eds Instead of Taking Action!
On Friday, June 14th, Aihong Qu suffered severe injuries as a passenger on an e-bike that collided with a bicycle in the two-way bike lane on 7th Avenue in Bay Ridge. (News) She died three days later at the hospital.
Why hasn’t any politician mentioned her name? Why hasn’t any elected leader taken action for the community?
Why didn’t Andrew Gounardes or Justin Brannan close 7th Avenue and have the two-way bike lane evaluated? Why do these politicians keep ignoring problems involving e-bikes?
Is the two-way bike lane a death trap or is the area poorly lit at night and this can be fixed so no one else gets hurt?
Brannan and Gounardes have failed to do anything about e-bikes, even when people complain to them about safety issues regularly. Many of Gounardes and Brannan’s supporters want no restrictions on bikes.
Are Andrew Gounardes and Justin Brannan so out-of-touch with the area or with the NYPD? Do they only respond to traffic incidents after community members call them out, like the residents on Marine Avenue did when Annemarie Weisner was killed? (Info)
No cyclist in Bay Ridge spoke out for Aihong Qu.
Today, the two politicians wrote an article for the paper that was completely USELESS.
If a politician has to write an opt-ed, there is something wrong. If a politician was taking action, reporters would be writing about what they were doing! Neither of these politicians has a friend or family member that will be frank with them and tell them this?
Senator Andrew Gouanrdes had six years to make changes to the laws to improve the streets.
Senator Gounardes chose to push speed cameras. Gounardes should have used the cameras to punish repeat offenders with higher fines and suspend their license. Why doesn’t he understand limitations of the speed cameras? Andrew Gounardes told us he had a bill and was going to fix the speed camera bill, but he failed to get it passed year-after-year because he’s too busy playing on social media. (See here)
People keep speeding in NYC because they don’t care about a $50.00 ticket. Ask Justin Brannan – he paid for 16 of them! (See here)
Andrew Gounardes’ solution this year was just to add more cameras to NYC. If you walk around Bay Ridge, you know we need police officers on patrol because things have gotten too out of control. Cars are speeding, while many ebikes/scooters riders aren’t obeying the laws.
Gounardes and Brannan wrote the article to post to social media, so people think they care. Their failure to mention Aihong Qu tells us we need new leaders. Last July, neither Andrew or Justin took action when this woman was killed on 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge. (Info here)
We need new leaders, who care about their neighbors and don’t need to write op-eds or play on social media!
Hugs,
marlene
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