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Traffic congestion here is atrocious and it spills over to local residential streets such as Clinton st, etc northbound where heavy freight trucks huffing and puffing along with all the very loud honking of private cars.
Bike connections from Red Hook, Sunset Park, and Greenwood Cemetery to Bush Terminal Park and the rest of south BK waterfront are brutal.
very rough intersection, lots of vehicles racing the light to get off the BQE offramp. Cars signal they are turning and drive straight through intersection.
Prioritise people over cars. Eliminate the elevated highway. It’s costly, ugly and hazardous. Either tunnel it or send the drivers to different streets. It’s a wound in the heart of South Brooklyn. We don’t need it. South Brooklyn isn’t flyover country. Build a separated bus lane on 3rd ave and give people a reason to give up taking their cars to work.
The air quality and noise pollution over the trench is awful. It’s gotten worse with additional traffic. Cap it. Make a green space for the community. Connect the communities east and west of the BQE.
The corridor under the BQE along 3rd Avenue is a disaster in every way
Constant vehicular accidents and there are two public schools across from each other with no traffic safety agents. There are also a lot of homeless people living on the street where cars drive by. It’s a very unsafe intersection.
The BQE lane changes have pushed tons of traffic to the local streets. It can take over 30 minutes to take a car for local driving from 1st place to Brooklyn Bridge park.
Traffic that once went on the BQE before the lane restructuring now overflows onto Clinton Street, causing backups, horn honking and dangerous pedestrian conditions.
If anyone at NYCDOT had a vision, they would consider re-thinking the Gowanus/BQE. Our urban planners should study the possibility of building a tunnel that would connect the Verrazano Bridge in a straight shot to the Kozschuizko Bridge that would be an express route below ground with limited or no entrance or exit access between the two points. The current elevated expressway could be reconfigured for local traffic only. It would greatly reduce the amount of traffic currently experienced on this route as most commercial traffic is not making local stops. It would greatly reduce the bottleneck that occurs between the Prospect and the Manhattan Bridge and help to ease the stress placed on the outdated elevated structures. A cross Brooklyn underground route would not interfere with the high density neighborhoods and would likely greatly reduce commercial traffic and help ease exhaust pollution from idling vehicles stuck in constant high volume traffic between Greenpoint and Bay Ridge. If Paris and Boston can build tunnels for stretches of their highways, NYC can too.
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