Suit: City should’ve shielded route

Callous city officials failed to protect people along a West Side Highway bike path that turned into a trail of bloody destruction last Halloween after an accused terrorist rammed people along the route with a renting truck, according to a series of lawsuits filed on behalf of victims.

The city’s Transportation Department and Parks Department and the Hudson River Park Trust never installed protective barriers along the bike path where the pro-ISIS terrorist Sayfullo Saipov allegedly killed eight people and injured 13 more with a rental pickup truck last Halloween, say the lawsuits filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday.

“They were on notice since at least 2007 of the numerous vehicles that were entering the greenway,” said lawyer Anthony Gair. “Nothing was done.”

The lawsuit references the 2006 deaths of cyclists Eric Ng and Carl Nacht, who were mowed down on the bike path. Ng, 22, was was fatally hit by a drunken driver, Eugenio Cidron, 27, who was leaving an office party. Nacht, 56, was killed by a police tow truck.

A 2007 report by bike advocacy group Transportation Alternatives called for changes along the bike pathway, including installation of barriers along pedestrian and bicycle trails.

A city Law Department spokesman said the Hudson River Park Trust is responsible for the path.