Dean & Bergen Streets
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Comments (1389)
There is a school and park here filled with kids, but this street has lots of speeding cars. People get hit here at least once a year by speeding cars. We need speed bumps on this street! Bergen between Troy and Schenectady. The bike line also needs to be more clearly marked.
Having to hail the b65 bus by standing in the street bc parked cars are blocking the bus stop. Why no enforcement on this very busy corner?!
Cars run through these lights at top speed or hit the turn from atlantic to carlton without so much as a passing thought to whether there are pedestrians nearby. Approximately once a week I have/witness a very close call at these intersections. I think Atlantic should not have parking on the blocks close to Barclays center so drivers can see and need to make the turns off atlantic MUCH safer for pedestrians
Bergen is so unsafe for bicyclists and also for bus users, and it is clogged up by double parking. Please get rid of the street parking and make Bergen a safe corridor for buses and bicyclists and move the car traffic elsewhere. Moving the bus will disservice so many people that live along this line and rely on the bus and the bus lane and bike lane can exist together. The cars are the problem for both bicyclists and anyone who uses the bus.
I left my apartment on Bergen and 8;45 this morning. The bus took about 45 minutes to get down Bergen to bond street. Its less than 3 miles and I was 45 minutes late, it would have been faster to walk. The drivers and doubled parked cars make the bus absolutely unuseable at the time when most people would need to rely on it. Super frusturating
The B65 bus route along Bergen/Dean is vital to this neighborhood! It is the only east/west bus line for blocks, and makes travel easier for elderly and differently abled commuters. these streets are already narrowed with double parked cars that make bus commuting difficult at times, without protected bike lanes.
I am deeply opposed to the Dean & Bergen Bike Boulevard Project. You have not done enough outreach to query long-time Black residents. Your tardy communication with Community Board 8 is conspicuous. How will this impact the B65 - which is currently being researched to moved to Atlantic. Moving the B65 to Atlantic Ave requires older riders and teens/children to cross Atlantic - which is incredibly dangerous under the raised part of the LIRR. It reduces accessibility for those who need it most. Be clear! How will the bike boulevard affect the B65? How will you ensure that long-time residents - especially Black residents on the eastern ends of Bergen and Dean - have their opinions heard? Additionally, we already have ebikes flying down the existing bike lanes at high speeds. This is incredibly dangerous. What enforcement measures do you propose to ensure that pedestrians are protected?
There’s no good way to get to/from the Ashland bike lane from Dean and Bergen without crossing Flatbush twice. There’s a very low-traffic way avoiding Flatbush entirely if you go east on Hanson for a couple of blocks to S Elliott, down S Portland / 6th for one block (admittedly this part isn’t so great), and then east on Pacific to Carlton. Could be a great connector from Ashland to the new bike boulevards.
Drivers use Carlton as a cut-through between Flatbush and Atlantic, especially now with the (great!) bus project on Flatbush. They blow through stop signs — a pedestrian was hit by a car and knocked over on this corner recently. Please make it so cars can’t do this and this stays a neighborhood street — maybe by preventing them from turning on Carlton off Flatbush, maybe by having the street change direction before Atlantic.
We support making biking safer on Dean and all the streets in Crown Heights!
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