Carroll Gardens Up in Arms Over MTA Doings
The Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association’s listserv lit up this weekend with angry messages about the MTA’s plans for the neighborhood. First off, the transportation authority announced last week that the Carroll Street station entrance (update: at 2nd Place) will be closed beginning on September 14th for 10-12 months to make way for the construction at…
The Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association’s listserv lit up this weekend with angry messages about the MTA’s plans for the neighborhood. First off, the transportation authority announced last week that the Carroll Street station entrance (update: at 2nd Place) will be closed beginning on September 14th for 10-12 months to make way for the construction at 360 Smith Street. More upsetting to residents, it seems, is the MTA’s plan to phase out the station agent at the stop’s President Street entrance during the period. (The station is one of dozens that are slated to see the removal of attendants in coming months as a belt-tightening measure.) An online petition has been established to protest the change.
Keep the Station Agents at Carroll Street! [iPetitions] GMAP
does anyone know what the hell they are doing with the R station stop on union? one stairway entrance is closed off and has been under construction for two months. originally it was supposed to be done by july 31st, but it’s not august 17th and it looks like no progress is made. granted the other exit is on the same side just a few feet further so it’s not that big of a deal, was just curious what they are doing. i asked someone in the booth but he looked at me like i had had 6 eyes.
*rob*
“ah– so you are one of those self-absorbed idiots that set off the alarms using emergency exits.”
Yeah, I am. I am terribly sorry to have inconvenienced you. Perhaps the next time you meet someone at the Carroll Street stop who is leaving the station with a young child in a stroller, you may be so kind as to offer to carry their folded stroller for them, while they walk with their child in their arms through the turnstiles and up the steps to the street.
Unless of course you are so self aborbed that you just dont give a F&^%
I would love for them to keep something open on both ends since it is a loooooooong station and it’s going to be rough during rush hour to get everyone in and out of one tiny exit (the southbound only has 3 of those cage things to exit and enter). I don’t see how they only partially close the 2nd place side though, aren’t 2nd St and 2nd Pl connected underground? It’s just one entrance, isn’t it?
“ah– so you are one of those self-absorbed idiots that set off the alarms using emergency exits.”
If the alternative is abandoning a stroller on the subway platform and buying a new one because the MTA are a bunch of damn idiots, then, yes.
If I recall correctly – the last time this closing was looming – it only included the 2nd PLACE entrance and not the entrance at 2nd STREET and Smith – just across the street. I think we need more clarification.
ah– so you are one of those self-absorbed idiots that set off the alarms using emergency exits.
I believe both ends of station will be open and an agent will be at 2nd St…just the entrance on west side of Smith on the plaza will be closed during constrction.
I don’t live near here… but I have an opinion! If they take away the station agent AND only have the “cage” style entrances, that will SUCK. What if you have a piece of luggage that’s just a *little* to big and you’re going to the airport… or, god forbid, a stroller.
Yeah, exiting you can use the crash bar door. But that’s locked from the inside. I guess you can just stand and wait until someone walks by and beg them to open the door? Dumb.
You can’t fit through those things with either luggage or a stroller… Are they really suggesting that’s feasible?
i hate those big gates too!!! i always feel like im going to be crushed in one like falling into a grain silo or something. also how do “extra large” people even fit through those?
*rob*