Closing of the Carlton Avenue Bridge
The Carlton Avenue Bridge, part of the Atlantic Yards footprint, is scheduled to close in less than a week for up to two years of reconstruction. Traffic is going to be rerouted to Sixth and Vanderbilt avenues. Atlantic Yards Report sees the closing as the start of a “three-year reconstruction clock,” since the Sixth Avenue…
The Carlton Avenue Bridge, part of the Atlantic Yards footprint, is scheduled to close in less than a week for up to two years of reconstruction. Traffic is going to be rerouted to Sixth and Vanderbilt avenues. Atlantic Yards Report sees the closing as the start of a “three-year reconstruction clock,” since the Sixth Avenue Bridge’s one-year rehab is supposed to follow work on the Carlton Avenue Bridge. If that timetable is followed, therefore, it means the earliest the Nets arena would open is January 2011.
Carlton Avenue Bridge Will Close January 16 [AY Report] GMAP
A Sign on Pacific Street [Brit in Brooklyn]
11:32, another question would be what happens when Ron Paul wins the presidency?
In other words, neither is going to happen.
Both legal cases are in appeal and stand zero chance of winning. But that’s par for the course when dealing with the neophytes who comprise the opposition.
that bridge ain’t ever gonna close.
So what happens when AY is stopped by the courts? Who rebuilds the bridge?
what a bunch of whiners. the project is happening just accept the fact. enough already.
what a bunch of whiners. the project is happening just accept the fact. enough aleardy.
The bridge needs to be closed to construct the platform over the train yard. When the project is complete, there will not be a bridge. The roadway will run over the platform.
Building the platform is a major engineering undertaking, and it is not at all unreasonable it will take 2 years.
How can it take two years to rebuild a one-block-long bridge? Seriously.
Pheights, I agree that the community should receive more than two weeks notice for something as big as this. In fairness, however, ESDC/FCRC announced in October that the bridge would close in the coming weeks.
This notice process really bothered me. The community only got two weeks’ warning! Someone asked me in response, “well, what would you do if you had more notice?” and I thought that I would rest assured that they had a grasp on their construction schedule, understood the integration of the bridge closure into the rest of the demolition activity, etc.
In a project that has already seen a fallen parapet, asbestos and vermin problems, and suffers from the pervasive “uncommunicative developer” syndrome, it would have been more promising to get more notice.
Believe it or not there are some in the community trying to build a better relationship with this project. If it has to happen, let it happen politely.