On a sunny September weekday morning, cars barreled down Long Beach Road, the six-lane thoroughfare connecting "mainland" Long Island to the barrier island of the City of Long Beach. Crossing the bridge from Oceanside onto Island Park, an islet in the bay north of Long Beach, they sped past a few bicyclists and scooter-riders carefully negotiating the shoulder.

Posted signs mark Long Beach Road as a "bike route," but there is no bicycle lane and it is anything but inviting to cyclists.

"I would say [it’s] unrideable for the average person," said biker Sean Cirillo, who posted a YouTube video where he dodges speeding vehicles while navigating between the shoulder, parked cars and the right lane.

Cirillo, 34, of Oceanside, said the road presents a dangerous bottleneck between safer area

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