As Baltimore’s bicyclists and motorists ponder the safety of bike lanes in the wake of a recent accident in one of them, opponents of the Prospect Park West bike lane in Brooklyn have filed suit in hopes of shutting it down, according to The New York Times, New York Streetsblog.org.

“The lawsuit, filed by a group with close ties to Iris Weinshall, the city’s transportation commissioner from 2000 to 2007 and the wife of Senator Charles E. Schumer, accuses the Transportation Department of misleading residents about the benefits of the lane, cherry-picking statistics on safety improvements and collaborating with bicycle activists to quash community opposition,” according to the Times on the litigation, filed Monday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.