5th Av Busway Pilot - Feedback Map

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Bus Stuck in Traffic
Bus Stuck in Traffic
 08/23/2020 - 23:42
5 Ave - East 57 St - East 58 St

I 100% support the proposed Fifth Avenue Busway as it would increase the speed, efficiency, and therefore reliability of the multiple bus services along the artery. The bulk of commuters on these buses come from uptown, Queens, as well as Brooklyn and Staten Island via express buses. In implementing this, we should consider not only the local businesses (which would benefit from increased foot traffic/commuter traffic) but also the bus/bicycle commuters that use these routes. All in all a net plus!

Other
Other
 08/23/2020 - 18:11
5 Ave - West 55 St - East 56 St

I think the busway pilot plan is a very good idea. The less traffic on 5th Avenue the better. It is just a glorified shopping mall anyway, and most malls have parking lots. The plan will have very little impact on business. I'm all for it. Also please add nice benches for sitting and more bus stops with seating in that a lot of elderly now live in the neighborhood.

Aggressive Biking
Aggressive Biking
 08/23/2020 - 18:06
5 Ave - East 57 St - East 58 St

Bikes should yield to pedestrians. I was hit by a bike in a crosswalk bike lane, they do not follow traffic flow.

Other
Other
 08/21/2020 - 16:55
East 55 St - 5 Ave - Manhattan

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.

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Other
Other
 08/20/2020 - 15:38
Fifth Ave - East 57 St - West 58 St - Manhattan

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.

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Other
Other
 08/19/2020 - 18:17
5 Ave - East 57 St - East 56 St - Manhattan

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.

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Other
Other
 08/19/2020 - 16:50
East 53 St - 5 Ave - Manhattan

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

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Other
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.

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Other
Other
 08/19/2020 - 16:04
West 53 St - 5 Ave - Avenue Of The Americas - Manhattan

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.

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Other
Other
 08/19/2020 - 14:24
5 Ave - East 48 St - East 49 St

5th Ave businesses are already hurting. Maintaining through car traffic on Fifth is necessary for its ongoing success, and to preserve the thousands of jobs that depend on the Avenue.

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