Kent Avenue Make-Over Begins
[nggallery id=”35325″ template=galleryview] As promised, work has begun on the new and debatably improved Kent Avenue. Workers have stripped the section between Broadway and Clymer, preparing it for new asphalt (motorists and cyclists beware). Halden over at Brooklyn11211 asks, as many have, if the new one-way Kent will actually be an improvement: he mentions that…
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As promised, work has begun on the new and debatably improved Kent Avenue. Workers have stripped the section between Broadway and Clymer, preparing it for new asphalt (motorists and cyclists beware). Halden over at Brooklyn11211 asks, as many have, if the new one-way Kent will actually be an improvement: he mentions that since they are ripping up a recently paved road, they should be installing the actual greenway, but they aren’t. More importantly, he adds, Kent Avenue will still be a busy throughfare, and people will need to cross it: “If DOT is not using this opportunity to put in traffic lights at at least three or four intersections between Grand and North 14th, they just don’t get it.” According to the DOT website, there are no plans to install more traffic lights, although the outline calls for “new signs and markings” in late September and October.
Kent Repaving Starts [Brooklyn11211]
Kent Avenue Goes One-way Today [Brownstoner]
The Kent Avenue Conundrum [Brownstoner]
Your dismissive attitude is really not helping matters.
Obviously the signage has to be farther north than N 14th to inform the truckers. Will some trucks take Wythe? Sure. Some do today. Will they usually make that mistake twice? Probably not.
The point here is that DOT’s suggested route is no longer N14/Wythe/N11, they are no longer designating N14 and Wythe as truck routes, and that will help things a lot. They listened, and they made changes accordingly.
Oh Jesus. Can somebody explain this to Zinka without implying that a truck or car that is going southbound on Franklin street to Kent avenue and reaches the spot where the one-way commences (or ends) is not going to get to miraculously levitate over five avenues and find themselves back at Meeker or McGuinness. They have to get “out” somehow. They won’t be barring trucks from turning down Greenpoint avenue to Franklin to Kent to get stuck down in the booby trap at N14th.
Thanks for the snide comment.
Yes, of course it is one way starting at N 14th.
But the point is that in the original proposal, DOT was going to designate N 14th and Wythe as truck routes. That is no longer in the plan, nor is the whole N 14/Wythe/N 11 redirect. Instead, DOT will direct trucks along Greenpoint/McGuinness/BQE.
Your map reading skills need a little work. It is one way clearly starting at N 14th street according to the Aug 7 , 09 pdf from the DOT you linked.
See http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/kent_ave_trucks09.pdf — as well as page 7 of http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/kent_ave.pdf
Is there a pdf from the DOT with this design on it , or is this gossip?
sosnowski, the revised plan no longer involves N14/N11. it uses Greenpoint Ave to McGuinness to the BQE.
So how long will the folks on the southside of McCarren Park have to tolerate this deadly and half assed interim plan that diverts trucks and cars down the detour at N 14th to N11th and over 5 busy avenues? 1 year ? 5 years? It’s crap that Bloomberg thinks will get him reelected and claim his green legacy. Isaac Abraham IS taking all the “credit” . I guess I will blame Nydia Velazquez too. The modern day civil engineer means something entirely different today. The DOT might as well be a p.r. firm. Lame.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/kent_ave.pdf
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-kent-avenue-2-ways
*greg*
She’s on her way.
BB