Carlton Avenue Bridge Closed Through at Least 2012
“The Carlton Avenue Bridge is a bit of a conundrum, so it’s hard for people to understand it. Because it spans the Long Island [Rail Road] railyard, and the Long Island railyard is a storage yard, so it has the trains in it. The tracks are being reconfigured, with a new design and the bridge…
“The Carlton Avenue Bridge is a bit of a conundrum, so it’s hard for people to understand it. Because it spans the Long Island [Rail Road] railyard, and the Long Island railyard is a storage yard, so it has the trains in it. The tracks are being reconfigured, with a new design and the bridge columns have to be built in sequence with the redevelopment of the yard. So the yard is being done in four phases. The Carlton Avenue Bridge is required to be open when the arena opens. It will be built with the third phase of the yard. So we expect it to open in 2012, with the arena, and we would do it as fast as we can, but unfortunately, it’s not just building a bridge, it’s building a yard.” — Jane Marshall, Forest City Ratner via Atlantic Yards Report
Photo by Tracy Collins
Get over it. If this is what it takes to develop the complex, I’m fine with it. Life will go on, the bridge will eventually return, and we’ll finally have SOMETHING of value in that space. It’s about time.
Does anyone here wonder why I carped on and on about this for the last year or more????
The loss of that bridge to pedestrians has been major! Cyclists are speedier and detour to 6th Avenue or Vanderbilt relatively easily compared to pedestrians. I spend significantly more time getting to and from where I need to go in Park Slope now. Very aggravating and tiring.
This detour is especially burdensome for people who live with mobility issues.
Didn’t I say it would be ages before and if it ever got rebuilt?
And by the way, there was no storage of trains in that vicinity that I can ever remember.
There were a couple of tracks on one side of the bridge and they were seldom if ever used. And the area below continuing east was a huge (nighttime) parking lot for city buses if anyone cars to remember.
Hhhhh!
Does anyone here wonder why I carped on and on about this for the last year or more????
The loss of that bridge to pedestrians has been major! Cyclists are speedier and detour to 6th Avenue or Vanderbilt relatively easily compared to pedestrians. I spend significantly more time getting to and from where I need to go in Park Slope now. Very aggravating and tiring.
This detour is especially burdensome for people who live with mobility issues.
Didn’t I say it would be ages before and if it ever got rebuilt?
And by the way, there was no storage of trains in that vicinity that I can ever remember.
There were a couple of tracks on one side of the bridge and they were seldom if ever used. And the area below continuing east was a huge (nighttime) parking lot for city buses if anyone cars to remember.
Hhhhh!
it sucks not to have a good foot path to ft. greene for that long. otoh, it’s not like we’d go that way anyway during construction…and it has a nice side benefit of reducing traffic through the center of PH.
2012?
Ratner is never going to give that street back.
We never should have “loaned ” to him.