Toro's Return
February 11th, 2009
Teresa Toro is back as chair of the transportation committee for Brooklyn’s Community Board 1, which includes Williamsburg, the Brooklyn Paper reports. Normally such ins and outs at community boards attract little attention, but Toro’s ouster from the committee post late last year caught the interest of many transportation activists.
The stated reason for Toro’s removal — as stated by Chairman Vincent Abate — was that she had disparaged other board members and been detrimental to the board as a whole in her discussion with the media. Many activists, though, saw Toro’s removal as fallout from the bitter dispute in the neighborhood over the Kent Avenue bike lane, which Toro has supported.
The bike lane still divides the neighborhood (see Gotham Gazette’s Bike Lanes Run into Opposition), but Abate said he and Toro had “agreed to let bygones be bygones [and] move forward from here.”
By Gail Robinson on February 11, 2009, 5:23 pmIn category: Gotham City, Transportation | No Comments »

