Henry Hudson Bridge Could Get Bike Path

A bike path on the Henry Hudson Bridge is “a long term goal” said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz on Monday.

The bridge has never had a bike path and has signs prohibiting bikers from using the pedestrian walkway.

“To have a bike path put on the west side of the bottom, right now where you have a walkway,” said Dinowitz at a lecture marking the bridge’s 75th anniversary at the New York Public Library’s Riverdale Library branch. “That would be able to connect Bronx and Manhattan, the greenways.”

Bike use has increased over the last decade, according to the New York City Department of Transportation. Bicycle traffic counts on the Hudson River Greenway show an almost 100 percent increase of cyclists from 3,646 in September 2007 to 7,095 in September 2011. 

If a bike path materialized on the Henry Hudson Bridge, it would connect the greenway to the Bronx via a walk-only portion through Inwood Hill Park, which ends at the base of the bridge in Manhattan.