Shortly before New Year’s, the New York City Parks Department and the Central Park Conservancy began a six-month pilot program permitting bicyclists to share a pedestrian path south of the 97th Street transverse passing just north of the tennis courts on the west side. According to a Parks Department spokesperson, the path will be monitored to see if it should continue — or possibly even be expanded. In the past, bicyclists wanting to cross Central Park had two legal choices: ride a couple of extra miles around the loop, or use the more direct, but narrow and often dangerous, transverses used by vehicles.
Rules to be observed: signs currently in place tell bicyclists to “ride slowly.” Other rules: yield to pedestrians, ride in single file, and no bicycle groups over four people.
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