Elbow Room on the Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge may have been a marvel of historical engineering when it opened in 1883, but in 2016 it’s just claustrophobic. While selfie sticks and Citi Bikes have been jockeying for space on the monument for years, the City of New York has finally caught wind of the overcrowding. Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg recently announced a seven-month, $370,000 engineering study of congestion on the bridge’s cycling and pedestrian path. In a cheaper and slightly less scientific effort this summer, Transportation Alternatives spent months on the storied bridge talking to cyclists; a majority said that building a separate path for cyclists would solve the packed-in problem