(THE CITY) Jose Martinez, July 17, 2019

The deaths of three city cyclists in less than a week — and 15 so far this year — led Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday night to declare an “emergency.”

“We’re going to do a full-court press to stop it,” de Blasio said in a TV appearance, pledging a cyclist safety plan from the city Department of Transportation and an NYPD crackdown on motorists who invade bike lanes.

He spoke while friends, family and fellow cyclists mourned 28-year-old Devra Freelander, killed by a cement truck in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Ernest Askew, 54, fatally struck by a car in Brownsville, Brooklyn; and Robyn Hightman, 20, who was hit by a truck on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.

If the mayor’s promises sound familiar, that’s because City Hall previously launched similar efforts two years ago that some cyclists and advocates say are falling short.

“The progress has been piecemeal at best,” said Max Sholl of North Brooklyn Transportation Alternatives.

In July 2017, the city Department of Transportation announced a five-year “action plan” to improve bicycle safety, following years of steady decline in bicycle fatalities.

The department committed to “create or enhance” 75 miles of bike lanes across 10 “Priority Bicycle Districts” in Queens and Brooklyn — community board areas where cyclist serious injury and death rates are highest and bike-lane coverage is notably skimpy.