Other

08/21/2020 - 16:55

5th Avenue Busway Pilot will significantly impact luxury shoppers and guests in a negative way, not only from a restricted traffic flow basis but also the image of the bus runway. I don't believe any high end luxury strips around the world has this type of a set up. It will marginalize the crowds and downgrade the money spend on 5th Avenue. Unless the goal is to make it a 3 Star destination. I urge you to reconsider this decision.

Other

08/20/2020 - 15:38

I object with every fiber of my being to the City's plan to eliminate through traffic on Fifth Avenue between 57th and 34th Streets. It's as if this Administration is determined to kill every business and income-producing entity in the entire Midtown area. The pandemic and the LOOTING that has gripped our City brought us to the brink and this will be the final death knell. I will lose my job for sure. Business people will not want to come to our office for meetings, shoppers will not want to shop in the stores, tourists will not want to come to the stores, the Cathedral, the Empire State Building, Radio City, the restaurants or any other attraction in the area, Taxis and Ubers will avoid the area like the plague. The subways and buses are dangerous both from a crime standpoint as well as COVID, so thinking that people will divert to using these means of getting to Fifth Avenue is unrealistic. I urge you to reject this proposal for the sake of all the people who depend on this area to support their families and the New York tax coffers, Thank you for your consideration. Please note that I could not get the cross street fields to cooperate. The site I am objecting to is Fifth Avenue between 57th and 34th Streets not 57th and 58th Streets.

Other

08/19/2020 - 18:17

The concept of doing away with through traffic Has no practical benefit and will only cause more traffic on streets and other avenues. Maintaining through car traffic on Fifth is necessary and vital for its ongoing success, and to preserve the thousands of jobs that depend on the Avenue.

Other

08/19/2020 - 16:50

If the administration hired a consulting firm to develop a plan to negatively impact retail store operators and property owners that consulting firm couldn't come up with a plan as bad as this one. This plan is extremely weak – it views Fifth Avenue bus traffic in a vacuum. It does not consider the following (and this is a short list): o Impact on traffic north of the busway from cars turning off of Fifth Avenue o Impact on traffic in other parts of the city o Impact upon the aesthetics of the Fifth Avenue shopping district o Impact upon real estate values on Fifth Avenue

Other

08/19/2020 - 16:45

Maintaining through vehicular traffic on Fifth Avenue is necessary for its ongoing success as a shopping and tourist destination, and to preserve the thousands of jobs that depend on the Avenue. Having vehicles turn off the corridor will not only negatively impact bus traffic, it will also pose a risk to pedestrians as well as to bicyclists. Note that a busway on an Avenue is much different than on 14th Street as the blocks on Avenues (street to street) are much shorter than that on streets (avenue to avenue). The turning off of Fifth Avenue of vehicles north of 57th Street (which will be further complicated by bicycle lanes) will negatively impact the bus traffic that the plan purports to improve. Further, to view Fifth Avenue from purely a transit standpoint does a tremendous disservice to the property owners, retail store operators, office tenants, tourists, shoppers, and pedestrians that frequent Fifth Avenue. As a property owner considering a major redevelopment project on Fifth Avenue, this busway project would force us to re-think our plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on Fifth Avenue.

Other

08/19/2020 - 16:04

This 5th Ave Busway Pilot Project will adversely affect our builidng, our tenants and is ill conceived. We ask that maintaining through car traffic on Fifth Avenue is necessary the continued success of Fifth Avenue. Your usurping a lane of traffic and parking for the "pedestrian safety zones" has not worked and is exclusively used to park police vehicles.

Other

08/19/2020 - 12:13

The consideration by the NYCDoT to introduce a bike path along 5th Avenue and to shunt vehicles off 5th Avenue between 57th and 34th St on 5th Ave is truly concerning. As a hotel operator of 55th St and 5th we have already been impacted by the bike path on 55th St which has caused harm to pedestrians, guests and employees alike. Furthermore at a time when we need to be encouraging a return to normalcy for NYC and to support the commercial stores, offices, hotels and businesses along 5th Ave and its side streets this is not the time to limit traffic flow without a more strategic and business friendly (employment friendly) process. NYC has been greatly impacted by the pandemic and it is time for local govt to support the business community to ensure more businesses don't close or move out of the city, and that further jobs and tax dollars are not lost. Please involve the business community in any such steps that re-imagine NYC.

Other

08/19/2020 - 11:51

As with many decisions this administration has made this is detrimental to the businesses that operate on and around 5th Avenue (midtown). Maintaining through car traffic on Fifth Avenue is important and essential for the ongoing success of restaurants, retail and office buildings. The city has been adversely affecting businesses by taxing and regulations why add more negative impact by reducing car traffic. Shouldn't you be trying to preserve jobs!!!

Other

08/19/2020 - 11:40

Closing down 5th Avenue will have implications for access for guests to the hotel and other parts of the city. This will be detrimental to our business.