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]
ditto, when’s the last time you ran across a ricjh person who was feelthy and steenking? Isn’t that usually more the case for the middle classes and the poor??
The union guys seem to always smell like ashtrays.
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If you started your little 3-yr old precious at Poly Prep this year, it would cost $542,777 by the time Junior gets his oh-so-valuable high school diploma.
omg that is insane. at least it has a normal name unless the ghetto ass high schools with those ridiculous names like The Future Astrophysisists Of The Lemon Pie Bridage and Circular Engineers High Shool. what is up with those stupid names?
*rob*
they learn their parents are feelthy steenking rich
I bet kids learn a lot of street smarts at Poly Prep.
By the way… assuming a modest 3% annual increase in tuition.
If you started your little 3-yr old precious at Poly Prep this year, it would cost $542,777 by the time Junior gets his oh-so-valuable high school diploma.
Rob – The Poly Prep “upper school” is down in Dyker Heights. The ‘lower school’ is the one on PPW.
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…
Poly Prep’s Park Slope building is the elementary school, Rob. The high school is in Bay Ridge.
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PPW is going to be a parking lot with kids getting picked up and dropped off at Poly Prep
LMFAO, why cant those lazy brats take the subway like everyone else? actually id rather not have them on subway, but i find that pretty funny. is that a high school? high schoolers getting dropped off to school by their parents? wow that is lame.
*rob*
Seriously, they’re called loading zones. Put them in front of the places where people are double-parking, and people will stop double parking. This isn’t rocket science.