Brooklyn, Queensboro bridges will lose lane of traffic for bicycles
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NEW YORK (WABC) Bicyclists who currently share space with pedestrians as they try to get across New York City s Brooklyn and Queensboro bridges would get their own lanes across those spans, according to a plan from Mayor Bill de Blasio.
De Blasio announced the Bridges for the People project on Thursday evening, as part of his final State of the City speech.
Cycling no longer seems to be a seasonal mode of transportation and soon those cyclists will have a lot more space.
On the Brooklyn Bridge, the innermost car lane in the Manhattan-bound direction would be turned into a two-way bicycle lane, and the promenade space that bicyclists and pedestrians currently use together would be given over solely to those on foot.
but were not able to get through the final barrier. that s when border agents used tear gas canisters and pepper bullets or pepper balls to keep them back, saying they were able to hold them back. 42 arrested. mexico now saying if others engage in this sort of behavior and try to cross illegally that they will be deported as well. back to you guys. miguel marquez, thank you very much. let s go to the other side of the border. nick watt has been in san diego. enormous deployment of resources there. a lot of attention focused. this morning, the morning after, in effect. do border control agents have control? reporter: yes. i mean, listen, they said they were going to keep this border closed until the situation had calmed down and until they had regained control. that was about four hours that the pedestrian crossings were closed, maybe five or six for the vehicle lanes. what they say happened was these
so mexican nationals also have a right to protection. the right to deport central america, south america, eastern hemisphere is righteous. steve: starting last week when the president and the department of homeland security along our nation s armed forces reinforced the southern border down there stories, circulating, rumors that some of the migrants were going to try to race across through the vehicle lanes. in fact, those rumors are still alive this morning. clearly after what happened this weekend, the border patrol is ready for anything. yes. lessons learned going all the way back into the early 1990s. we saw masses of persons crossing into the united states right through the vehicle lanes at ports of entry san hid degree was particularly victimized by this. it makes the traveling public from mexico into the united states as well as the
either. we heard independent reports that the claim, 20,000 will try to march through vehicle lanes at the border, applying for asylum is a waste of time but more significant i was there this morning when you got the text from a part of the caravan saying we will get to the stadium at 9:00 pacific time, 12:00 eastern and we will be marching or walking peacefully to that port of entry. they say they want to do it on a sunday because a peaceful day and they want to come through peacefully. here is the point. this group is testing the agreement between the administration and mexican officials, they said we are going to come across peacefully and see what you do and to your point that will dictate future amanda s mom s appointment hello mom. caravans. just got rescheduled - for today.