Closing Bell: Left Turns Nixed on 4th & Union
4th Avenue’s transformation from traffic-choked truck route to residential strip got a little boost from the DOT recently. The department bowed to the wishes of the Park Slope Civic Council and eliminated northbound left turns at 4th and Union. The Civic Council argued that the turns were unnecessary since the westbound traffic lane ends at…
4th Avenue’s transformation from traffic-choked truck route to residential strip got a little boost from the DOT recently. The department bowed to the wishes of the Park Slope Civic Council and eliminated northbound left turns at 4th and Union. The Civic Council argued that the turns were unnecessary since the westbound traffic lane ends at 3rd Ave. and Union, a block away, and that they endangered pedestrians. GMAP
Agree making Union one way would be a good idea.
I once lived on Union – between 4th and 5th – boy, does it get truck traffic (though at the time, mid-80’s, it was less worrisome than the heroin-buying traffic (a half-block of cars double parked on the block waiting to buy in front of the local sales place a few buildings down from the one I lived in, and all the cops did was ask each driver to show them license and registration and then left them alone) and later, the crack-buying traffic (foot traffic, where purchasers would walk a few entrances up and smoke it and collapse in our building’s small entryway, so small we’d have to open the door, and wait for them to get up and leave before we could pass through the vestibule to the inner door)…but I digress.
The truck traffic put clouds of thick black smoke into the air, that drifted into my windows and lodged in my lungs making me cough. Learned the hard way to avoid Union St. in my future P.S. apartment searches. Drugs gone, but the traffic and trucks are arguably worse now…
as a person with a car (sorry hater, i mean 7:18), it is a minor inconvenience to not have that left turn. get over it, fellow carbon chompers.
Pizza in NYC hasn’t been the same since the Albanians took over from the Italians.
driving a car in nyc should be inconvenient and expensive – all efforts to make the quality of life better for a public transportation using pedestrian is welcomed.
what’s the deal with flowers by ron? been closed for well over a year i think.
Motorists – I hear you but it’s not all about your convenience. You’re not the only users of the street. This is a minimal accommodation to pedestrians. Deal with it. Loop around the block to the gas station.
The Pizza Place in the picture is sooooo yummy! They have the best pizza anywhere around here.
4th Ave is a scary street for pedestrians–a friend of mine recently got hit by a turning bus. Any solutions are a welcome boon to the ‘hood. Now if they’d only enforce the speed limit!
Bah humbug.