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Please extend protected bike lanes here. Crossing this intersection here feels like a mad scramble and VERY unsafe.
I shop at industry city and other places on third avenue because it’s east to park and drive unlike park slope and downtown Brooklyn. Don’t reduce lanes but clean up the pigeon crap under the expressway where the public parking is. We pay for the space the city should clean. Pedestrian improvements would make sense if people are actually going to live here. These are very low density and underutilized areas from both a residential and a commercial standpoint
To minimize cut-through traffic and lessen Red Hook's physical isolation, cut Hamilton Avenue to one lane each direction without parking and use dedicated turn lanes to keep vehicles flowing. Add protected bike lanes to shorten rides to and from downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Sunset Park deserves a lot better than an 11-lane behemoth (9 driving plus 2 parking lanes) for 3rd Avenue. Build it for the an appropriate amount of traffic for the neighborhood: one travel lane each way, plus separated bike lanes and potentially bus lanes. The remaining area should be dedicated for public plazas, recreation, and vendor space, not private parking.
If motor vehicles are banned from Shore Road, this corridor readily becomes an inviting linear park connecting Owl's Head and Leif Ericson Parks.
At 7th Avenue, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights deserve better than what is essentially a four-lane at-grade highway that encourages speeding. The bike lanes on southbound side are a step in the right direction. Go further and have one vehicle lane in each direction, then use the restored public space as active corridors for running, walking, and biking to and from McKinley and Leif Ericson Parks.
Continuous bike paths and designated public bus lanes are needed for the long-term success of the BQE redesign. Wear and tear from large and numerous vehicles can be reduced with bike and public bus usage.
There are a handful of child daycare centers with a 1-block radius from this point. There are many other instances along the corridor, where this is also the case. These present conditions are dangerous for children—the new vision NEEDS to address air quality and road safety issues
This playground is directly exposed to particulate matter from the highway. I avoid bringing my child to this playground even though we live one block away. It is a pity to see such under-utilized public space in a city that demands public space. As the BQE is being rethought, this public space should be re-envisioned with the local community and redesigned with ways to mitigate particulate matter.
During rush hour, the B61 bus gets stuck in backed up traffic on Columbia St all the way from the Atlantic Ave BQE ramp back to Carroll St. The bus should have right of way.
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