The bike lane along Prospect Par💟k West isn’t as safe as the city boasts on its Web site, critics say.
Numbers compiled by the Department of Transportation and released as p🧸art of a lawsuit show there were 117 reported crashes on that street and its intersections in the two-year period before the bike lane opened in mid-2010 and 126 aft♏erward, an 8 percent jump.
The number of motor-vehicle accidents with injuries also went up, from 10 to 11, but the number of pedestrians struck by v🍌ehicles dropped from six to four.
Such relatively flat numbers might not mean much in other parts of the city, but since they deal with the most contentious bike laneꦡ in town — one that Anthony Weiner has pledged to rip out if he becomes mayor — they’ve set off another argument between critics and the DOT.
For one thing,𝓰 the DOT proclaims on its Web site that crashes fell 16 percent in the six months after the nearly mile-long lane opened. And crash injuries plummeted 63 percent, it boasts.
Officials say those figures reflect a s𒆙tudy requested by the local community board, which is why they haven’t been updated.
But critics insist that all of the DOT’s 🐟numbers are misleading.