The Word on One-Way Streets in the Slope
The city’s proposal to turn 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope into one-way streets is dead, after the local community board unanimously rejected it. The folks over at Streetsblog seem to be relieved by this decision: “It is worth noting that a bunch of independent studies in well-respected academic journals totally refute DOT’s claim…
The city’s proposal to turn 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope into one-way streets is dead, after the local community board unanimously rejected it. The folks over at Streetsblog seem to be relieved by this decision: “It is worth noting that a bunch of independent studies in well-respected academic journals totally refute DOT’s claim that one-way avenues would be safer for Park Slope pedestrians.” Streetsblog also posted the testimony of an anonymous Park Sloper who is “a member of the federal Transportation Research Board and a professional transportation planner and traffic engineer, with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and a masters in transportation planning from MIT.” This in-the-know Sloper also concludes, “One-way street networks can result in more pedestrian accidents, particularly among children.”
City: One-way plan is DOA [The Brooklyn Paper]
In Defense of a Technocrat [The Brooklyn Paper]
Studies Refute Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer [StreetsBlog]
Photo by Johnathan Barkey for The Brooklyn Paper
It is not all about ratner. people have to travel further to even access 6th and 7th aves when they can use 3rd, 4th, and 5th. everything that’s being done in brooklyn is NOT only about atlantic yards…I disagree, and I think PS will benefit by having the one way streets.
You are all missing the point. It is all about the 800lb gorilla, the “Atlantic Yards”. The DOT’s mission is not about safety or they would have done something on 9th and 3rd. It IS about furthering Ratner’s agenda pure and simple. They are charged with moving cars to and from the arena and the housing.
What is good for Park Slope may not be good for other communities,. Therefore lets make Park Slope not good.
One Way Traffic Baby. And please towards Windsor Terrace so we in the finer communities get to have a break!!:)
Streetsblog posted a number of independent academic studies refuting DOT’s claim that one-way streets are safer for pedestrians. Hundreds of towns and cities across the US are changing their one-ways back to two-ways because they are finding that one-ways, generally, are less friendly to pedestrians.
Mike Primeggia, meanwhile, had the floor for 35 minutes the other night and presented not one point of data, just vague references to an avenue in Brooklyn.
It was an arrogant, pathetic performance by DOT.
If traffic lights don’t synchronize, cars would run slower. Those avenues are too narrow to make two-ways unless they prohibit double parking even with drivers.
good, call it a day. u can agree to disagree or argue your points till you’re blu in the face. but I do agree with me….
High speeds? give me a freagin break. and i didn’t miss any points..i just DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU
I was at the meeting. The DOT is trying to mitigate the pending traffic nightmare that is Atlantic Yards. The DOT’s proposal was full of exaggeration and half truths. The best thing for the massive increase in traffic caused by Atlantic Yards may be to turn 7th and 6th into high speed throughways, but luckily what’s in the best interest of AY traffic isn’t the issue – what’s best for Park Slope is. And what’s best for Park Slope is to keep things the way they are.
If the city wants less traffic congestion by the Yards, shrinking the f$%ing development to a rational size would work nicely.
alright, I’ll bite once more since you seem to miss the point. Yes the traffic is slower because the whiney park slopers (of which I am not one) don’t want their streets to be used to just get from one place to another. They like that its a neighborhood at the moment not a freeway.