Get in fast lane on bike paths: report

Glenwood Playground in Canarsie. Gayle said the cops punched and kicked him. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said video of the incident had disturbing elements, and that he would have preferred to see “no physical resistance at all and no arrest needed.”

Three hours later, Dickerson, who hadn’t been at the scene, was approached on his meal break and told he had to take responsibility for Gayle’s arrest.

Dickerson says he objected, but found himself under investigation for an arrest he had nothing to do with. Meanwhile, the Gayle case generated protests and an ongoing criminal investigation.

“They had the forms all filled out for him but he didn’t know the circumstances of what happened,” said Dickerson’s lawyer John Scola. “I don’t know how he can attest to an arrest he didn’t see. They were trying to put the blame on him.”

Civil rights lawyer Joel Berger said the practice is common and highly questionable. “What it looks like to me is that they knew he was a whistleblower and they wanted to stick it to him in case the s—t hit the fan,” he said.

It was then that Dickerson decided to file a notice of claim, a preliminary step to filing a lawsuit against the city.

Gayle has also signaled he will sue over his arrest.

McRorie said the NYPD will review Dickerson’s lawsuit “if and when it is served.”

A proposal from the Regional Plan Association would within a few years raise New York’s cycling infrastructure to the level of other world-class cities.

The association released a report Wednesday detailing its vision of a 425-mile network of protected bike paths that would change the perception the city’s streets are death traps for cyclists.

“Such a network of lowstress, continuous priority routes connecting all five boroughs would reduce intermodal conflicts [between bikes, pedestrians and motor vehicles], relieve roadway congestion and cut greenhouse gases,” the report states.

The proposal — called the “Five Borough Bikeway” — goes much further than a plan announced last year by Mayor de Blasio that aims to increase the amount of protected bike lanes across the city to 200 miles by the time he leaves office at the end of 2021.

It’s also much more aggressive than legislation spearheaded by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson last year to require city officials to install 50 new miles of bike lanes annually starting in 2022.

Instead, the association wants the city to immediately begin building 60 new miles of bike lanes each year.

The city already has just over 100 miles of protected bike paths within its greenways and parks. The association believes officials could implement its vision for another 425 miles of protected lanes in five years or less.

For that to happen, De Blasio would have to abandon his tendency to give in to community groups that often push back against cycling infrastructure, the report says.

The group also calls for all of the bike lanes to be protected from traffic with carproof barriers.