With some city streets still unplowed, impassable and blocked in by snow yesterday, a Sanitation crew on the Upper West Side spent hours clearing the way for bicyclists.
“There are thousands of people who would be unhappy about this, [but] there is a bicycle person who is happy about this,” a Sanitation Department staffer told The Post as he supervised a half-dozen laborers hired to shovel for $12 an hour.
“I’m just a sanitation worker. I take orders. I don’t question them. It’s like the military: If that’s what they tell me to do, I do it. My supervisor told me to do it . . . Who gave him the orders? I can only imagine.”
Mayor Bloomberg has been pushing controversial bike lanes despite opposition from some neighborhoods.
As the plow supervisor spoke on Columbus Avenue near West 85th Street, Bloomberg was 18 miles away in St. Albans, Queens, saying what was happening on the Upper West Side was not actually happening.
“Nobody’s going out and clearing bicycle lanes where you’re not likely to see people riding bikes with the slush and everything,” the mayor said.