DOT Picks Residents' Brains on Tillary Traffic
The Department of Transportation started playing around with some ideas to improve the safety and flow of traffic on Tillary Street in Downtown Brooklyn last summer, but on Tuesday night it hosted a brain-storming session with 50 or so residents to see if they had missed anything. This is a once-in-a-century opportunity to re-create this…
The Department of Transportation started playing around with some ideas to improve the safety and flow of traffic on Tillary Street in Downtown Brooklyn last summer, but on Tuesday night it hosted a brain-storming session with 50 or so residents to see if they had missed anything. This is a once-in-a-century opportunity to re-create this area, said DOT project director Randy Wade. One break-out group discussed reducing the size of the service roads on Adams Street while widening the medians; other ideas included better bike lanes and the prohibition of special permit parking. The $12 million project is not slated to begin until 2012.
DOT Gathers Locals To Re-Design Tillary [Brooklyn Eagle]
Tillary Redesign Meeting: Input From Residents [McBrooklyn]
Pedestrian Safety and Congestion in Downtown Brooklyn [DOT]
The 84th precinct has tried to enforced the current rules and we all know how well that worked. the ONLY way is for the city to build a garage for the government employees use for free(they did it in Queens) but the current chances are between nil and none. Unless you also do and enforce residential parking the neighborhoods around the bridges will become commuter parking lots…on the streets.
I am for tolling the bridges.
It will help for a short while. The only way to protect the pedestrians is to separate the traffic and the walkers physically(a fly over or move the peds to mid block…its safer) but no one likes that….except me.
I certainly don’t mean to claim that tolling the lower East River bridges is a new idea, because obviously it’s not. However, it IS the elephant in the room that’s being ignored in favor of minor things like making eastbound traffic on Tillary go to Jay instead of letting cars turn directly onto the Brooklyn Bridge. One main factor in the congestion on and around Tillary* is because people drive out of their way to take the free crossings rather than pay, what is it now, $8 at the Battery Tunnel? If it cost the same amount to cross over into Manhattan no matter which crossing you chose, there would be less congestion on and around Tillary Street. Whether that’s a choice the government is willing to make is, of course, a separate issue.
Regarding parking along Tillary as mentioned by Werner, it may be a good idea but I think it’s a non-starter. Those cars are all government employees (police, teachers, call center employees towards Flatbush, USPS and maybe also court employees over near Cadman Plaza, if I’m not mistaken), so I think it’d probably be more trouble than it’s worth.
* This is true around the approaches to the Williamsburg and 59th Street Bridges as well, but it’s worse around Tillary because there are two bridge entrances separated by just a couple of blocks on the Brooklyn side.
Let me make a left turn at Tillary off the Manhattan Bridge so I can directly get to the BQE.
Get rid of tillary parking, enforce it, and keep people from stopping their cars and double parking on south side of street.
Tolls on the bridges is not going to work, it’s not like the approaches to toll bridges and tunnels elsewhere in the city are calm and orderly. You need to clearly mark and separate the lanes for who wants to go where, enforce them, and throw in some pedestrian overpasses. It will never be bucolic.
yep no one thought of tolling the bridge…what a original idea….
ask Mr. Ravitch…
The way to cut traffic on and around Tillary is to put tolls on the bridges.