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U.S. NEWS Friday 3 November 2017

Following attack, 57 NYC intersections getting new barriers

By KAREN MATTHEWS clists and runners.
Associated Press Long stretches of the path
NEW YORK (AP) — New are shielded from the high-
York officials on Thursday way by berms planted
began to put up addition- with trees and shrubs, but
al concrete barriers at in- Saipov’s truck entered the
tersections, including one bike path where a drive-
where an attacker drove way crosses the path and
onto a bike path, killing leads to a parking garage
eight pedestrians and cy- and sports facility.
clists. Cyclist Eric Ng was killed
A spokesman for Mayor at the same spot on De. 1,
Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, 2006 when a drunk driver
said officials identified 57 entered the bike path and
intersections where new hit him.People who run or
barriers will be erected. bike past the location said
They include a site near Tuesday’s mayhem wasn’t
the World Trade Center a complete surprise.
memorial where authorities “You always feet pretty
say Sayfullo Saipov drove unsafe running so close to
a rented truck onto a bike the traffic,” runner Venky
path in an attack inspired Iyer said the morning after
by the Islamic State group. Workers install a concrete barrier along the west side bike path in New York, Thursday, Nov. 2, the attack. “But I always
The spokesman, Ben Sarle, 2017. New York officials have started putting up additional concrete barriers at intersections, in- thought it would be an
said the work is being car- cluding the one where a terrorist drove a truck onto a bike path, killing eight people. inattentive driver on his
ried out by the New York (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) mobile phone who might
City and New York state expertise and informed Side Highway on Tuesday. a Democrat, introduced a do this. This is such a soft
transportation depart- judgment regarding coun- Prosecutors brought feder- bill to authorize $50 million target. And it brings out
ments in coordination with terterrorism measures in the al terrorism charges against in spending to install traffic people in numbers.”Jack
the New York Police De- area and around the city,” Saipov on Wednesday, say- barriers nationwide. Miles, who said he rides his
partment and other agen- he said. ing he had planned the at- Tuesday’s carnage, the bike along the path regu-
cies. Law enforcement officials tack for weeks. His attorney deadliest terror attack in larly, stopped Thursday at
“Nobody is better at keep- say Saipov, an Uzbek im- said it’s important to let the New York since Sept. 11, a makeshift memorial that
ing New Yorkers safe than migrant, drove the truck judicial process play out. 2001, occurred on a path marked the spot where the
the NYPD and we will onto a bike path that abuts Following the attack, New along the Hudson River truck crossed onto the bike
continue to defer to their Manhattan’s busy West York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, that’s heavily used by cy- path. q
Hundreds of utility crews working in Maine on power outages

By DAVID SHARP power outages that ex- injuries or deaths attributed counting for a third of the restoring power in the terri-
Associated Press ceeded the infamous ice to this storm,” said Steve outages. tories of the two major utili-
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — storm of 1998. McCausland of the Maine Utility companies reported ties, Central Maine Power
More than 100,000 homes Authorities cautioned that Department of Public Safe- that the number of out- and Emera Maine.Even
and businesses remained now is not the time for com- ty.Hundreds of out-of-state ages in Maine was down though there had been no
without electricity for a placency as street lights re- utility crews were in Maine to about 129,000 Wednes- deaths, there were several
fifth day Thursday after a main out, hundreds of utility to help the hardest-hit state day evening.The Maine near misses: A CMP worker
powerful storm blew down crews remain on duty, and recover from a strong storm Emergency Management suffered a glancing blow
thousands of trees, toppled portable generators and that left about 1.5 mil- Agency was collecting from a falling tree limb
power lines and left more chain saws remain in con- lion homes and businesses data Thursday in anticipa- while working in a bucket
than half of Maine’s resi- stant use. without power across the tion of making a request truck; a couple suffered
dents in the dark. “This crisis is not over yet, Northeast. for a disaster declaration to carbon-monoxide symp-
But there was a silver lining: but it is encouraging to all In Maine, nearly 500,000 free up federal aid for the toms from a generator; and
There have been no deaths of us in public safety that utility customers were in state. generators caused several
or serious injuries despite there have been no major the dark at one point, ac- All told, 2,800 workers were small fires. q