They’re costly bridge referees who are supposed to keep cyclists and pedestrians from colliding — but commuters gripe that they’re only taking taxpayers for a ride.
The $38-an-hour pathway police can’t even patrol the Brooklyn Bridge’s most dangerous pedestrian-biker sections — because construction has made them too narrow to monitor.
“I crashed my bike [into pedestrians] yesterday,” Brooklyn Bridge cyclist Liat Olenick admitted to The Post. “There were people standing in the bike lane.”
When asked if a monitor was nearby, he looked confused.
“Wait. There are safety monitors?” the bridge regular asked. “What monitors?”
A special four-person team of monitors was deployed to each of the East River’s four bridges in September — at a total cost of $80,000 a month — to prevent biker-walker collisions.
The workers are to continue monitoring the paths until Nov. 26, when the city Department of Transportation will conduct a review to see whether they’re actually managing to curb dangerous congestion on the shared lanes.
Regular commuters say the verdict is already in: They aren’t worth it.