The Empire State Development Corporation has put out a community notice for its arena traffic mitigation plan, which is scheduled to go into effect on or around July 15th. The presentation above gives a sense of the traffic changes that are in the works, and here’s the summary of them: “Fourth Avenue (between Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue only) will be converted to one-way southbound to improve traffic flow at the Flatbush Avenue/Atlantic Avenue/Fourth Avenue intersection. Pacific Street (between Fourth Avenue and Flatbush Avenue only) will be reversed, changing from one-way westbound to one-way eastbound. To accommodate this change, a new traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue, as will a new crosswalk across Flatbush Avenue. Vehicles will be able to make right or left turns onto Flatbush Avenue at this location. This block can be accessed from both northbound and southbound Fourth Avenue. Fourth Avenue northbound traffic, including all commercial vehicles, can use Third Avenue via Atlantic Avenue to access Flatbush Avenue. Pacific Street will offer secondary access to Flatbush Avenue. No through truck traffic will be permitted on Pacific Street.” The plan will be presented to the public on June 14th.
Traffic Mitigation Presentation [PDF]
Official Community Notice [PDF]


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  1. Where do pedestrians and cyclists fit into this planning nightmare? And with 5th Ave. forever lopped off at Flatbush, Park Slope and Ft. Greene might as well be on different continents. This whole project is a disgrace.

  2. I unfortunately commute daily through this area to get to one of the bridges. Originally I started down 4th avenue to make a left on Atlantic to go to the Brooklyn Bridge. That got too crowded so I did the same thing down 3rd Avenue after they made the left turn from 3rd avenue onto Atlantic legal. Now, LOTS of people are bagging off of the BQE on Hamilton and heading down 3rd to do the same thing (or to get on Flatbush heading for the Manhattan Bridge). So even as of the traffic pattern today, EARLY in the morning, 3rd Avenue is packed trying to get onto Flatbush – AND 4th Avenue is already packed getting onto Flatbush…. So, if they reroute all the 4th Ave. traffic onto 3rd Ave it simply will not work.

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