PPW Bike Lanes Reducing Traffic Speed
Park Slope Neighbors conducted a radar gun study along Prospect Park West and found that average speeds on Prospect Park West have been reduced by nearly 25% by the addition of bike lanes. The group, which has been pro-bike lane from the beginning, also reported that the number of cars traveling more than 40 mph…
Park Slope Neighbors conducted a radar gun study along Prospect Park West and found that average speeds on Prospect Park West have been reduced by nearly 25% by the addition of bike lanes. The group, which has been pro-bike lane from the beginning, also reported that the number of cars traveling more than 40 mph has been cut by 95 percent. “Prospect Park West has been transformed from a noisy speedway on which nearly every vehicle was speeding to a calmer, quieter neighborhood street on which the great majority of drivers are now obeying the speed limit,” commented Park Slope Neighbors campaign coordinator Eric McClure. “What a difference a lane makes.” Brooklyn Borough President, who opposed the creation of the bike lanes, wasn’t buying it. “Double-parking is still commonplace and the result is more noise from car-honking, more pollution from traffic jams and more frustration to residents and visitors alike,” Markowitz told The Brooklyn Paper.
PPW Bike Lane Puts the Brakes on Speeders [Park Slope Neighbors]
LC Arnett — I don’t buy it. Not that the majority of cars aren’t used for intra- and inter-borough (non-Manhattan) commuting… I don’t buy that PPW is a vital piece of this commute.
As it was previously… the 3-lane superhighway (with matching speeds) lead to a traffic circle which no one in Brooklyn seems smart enough to know how use. Those arrows certainly are confusing. After the traffic circle, the choices are three different SINGLE-LANE roads!!!
If those roads haven’t caused the crippling of the morning commute, why would a narrowing of PPW do this?
tybur6: “What is amazing is that the unloading of children at school has become this long drawn out ordeal. When I was a kid (i took the bus) parents stopped the car, door opened, kid went to school… it was a total of 8 seconds. You gathered your things AT HOME and your mom/dad said their goodbyes (“Have a nice day at school, junior!”) on the block BEFORE the school. It’s amazing how long it takes Brooklyn moms to unload their little precious… ”
Actually, this is directly related to the fact that kids now need to be in car seats and booster seats until they are 60lbs or so. When you (and I) were in first grade, we could tuck and roll with barely a stop by the parental units. Now it takes an astrophysist and a couple of teamsters to get a kid out of his safety harness. In exchange for saving Johnny’s delicate egg head, a trip anywhere with a small child is now a process. Its even worse for the 3 & 4 year olds.
“To repeat jagarch’s point… Where exactly is this morning rush hour traffic going on PPW?’
How about to some of the thousands of businesses that exist in the southern part of the borough? Heading out that way is where you run into communities that have less subway access. According to the city’s own report only 4.6% of New Yorkers (NYC residents) travel to Manhattan by car each day. Nearly seven times as many drive to jobs outside of Manhattan (inter and intra borough) as to it. http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/downloads/pdf/report_transportation.pdf
When is fsrq *not* on the attack?
>I think that we have yet to see what the full impacts are.
That’s what traffic calming is about! Impacting traffic. Slowing it down. If you’re stupid enough to stop to on PPW to let your brat out, that adds to the impact. Not bad.
Woodys, I like it when fsrq is on the attack mode.
fsrq, was just making point to tybur6 that if kid gets into lucrative gig thanks partially to the poly prep schooling, it’s a very low break even point. kidding aside, 1 yr bankers make around 200k all-in and if they make it to full fledge banker (vs as initial high paying data entry monkey), the 542k is not that big of a nut to overcome.
“more4less:”that 542k is the 1st yr pay of a banker or maybe only a fraction of it. it might be worth it.”
I hope you are joking – I am not a IBr but I do know that they dont make near this money in their 1st yr and most will never consistently make that much ever.
I dont know what fuels such miserable comments and venom but it certainly comes off as envy – and whatever it is, it aint pretty.”
Pretty sure he was joking, and it was funny…relax a bit
To repeat jagarch’s point… Where exactly is this morning rush hour traffic going on PPW?
BY THE WAY — Last time I saw, Poly Prep erects these temporary No Parking signs in front of the school every day anyway….
I am not weighing in again re Bikes but I have to laugh at how ridiculous and pathetically old some of you sound:
Rob:”you see the occasional hybrid or smart car, but for the most part park slope streets are filled with ginourmous SUV’s, dont let their phoney granola crunchy green talk fool you…”
talk about selective vision – I am the 1st person to laugh at the granola hypocrisy but PS is NOT filled with SUVs – it just isnt, its filled with Subaru’s and VW. The Outback and Passat Wagons are practically mandatory They are not SUVs and they are not ginormous. Open you eyes.
tybur6: “What is amazing is that the unloading of children at school has become this long drawn out ordeal. When I was a kid (i took the bus) parents stopped the car, door opened, kid went to school… it was a total of 8 seconds. You gathered your things AT HOME and your mom/dad said their goodbyes (“Have a nice day at school, junior!”) on the block BEFORE the school. It’s amazing how long it takes Brooklyn moms to unload their little precious… ”
Really when I was a kid I walked uphill; BOTH ways. Seriously I dont think you could make yourself sound like more of an old miserable codger if you tried. The kids and moms are more or less the same – it is you who has changed (likely not for the better)
more4less:”that 542k is the 1st yr pay of a banker or maybe only a fraction of it. it might be worth it.”
I hope you are joking – I am not a IBr but I do know that they dont make near this money in their 1st yr and most will never consistently make that much ever.
I dont know what fuels such miserable comments and venom but it certainly comes off as envy – and whatever it is, it aint pretty.