The city’s proposal to turn 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope into one-way streets is dead, after the local community board unanimously rejected it. The folks over at Streetsblog seem to be relieved by this decision: “It is worth noting that a bunch of independent studies in well-respected academic journals totally refute DOT’s claim that one-way avenues would be safer for Park Slope pedestrians.” Streetsblog also posted the testimony of an anonymous Park Sloper who is “a member of the federal Transportation Research Board and a professional transportation planner and traffic engineer, with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and a masters in transportation planning from MIT.” This in-the-know Sloper also concludes, “One-way street networks can result in more pedestrian accidents, particularly among children.”
City: One-way plan is DOA [The Brooklyn Paper]
In Defense of a Technocrat [The Brooklyn Paper]
Studies Refute Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer [StreetsBlog]
Photo by Johnathan Barkey for The Brooklyn Paper