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Comments (44)
Extend Bedford Ave bike lane from Flatbush to S 4th St to fill in gap in network and better connect to Williamsburg Bridge
Cycling over the Greenpoint Ave bridge is fantastically unpleasant, which is a shame because it's really direct to get to parts of Queens. Heavy truck traffic but only a painted lane, which disappears at the bridge -- forcing you onto uneven sidewalk with a low barrier down to Newtown Creek. The exit is a complex intersection with heavy traffic from all sides and limited striping. Then you come onto a cloverleaf with limited or no protection.
The bike lane exit at Pulaski requires bikers to merge across a lane for cars entering McGuinness. I personally would never bike on McGuinness as currently constructed and instead travel on Leonard, Eckford, or Manhattan. Unless traffic on McGuinness is drastically reduced and/or a bollard-protected bike lane is introduced, I would continue to bike on the side streets. The left turn from Eckford or Leonard onto Greenpoint Ave to get up to Manhattan is low-visibility and difficult because you need to go uphill from a stop.
Please reroute large truck traffic! Dangerous for bikers
Please prohibit large trucks from traveling on Greenpoint avenue between mcguiness and manhattan
The idea some have of making this one lane in each direction is crazy. This is a main artery for trucks. Making it narrower would encourage trucks to use the side streets. The turn lanes and arrows work really well. Plus, traffic would back up into the neighborhoods. How would emergency vehicles get through? Bicycling should be on one way streets if they want to increase safety.
There is a lot of foot traffic up Bedford Ave to Nassau Ave cross McGuiness. This is because it's a direct route from 2 subway stops (the Bedford L stop and the Nassau G stop). This routes a large amount of pedestrians directly to the Nassau and McGuiness intersection which is particularily dangerous (frequent speeding, running red lights and pedestrian confusion over when to cross).
Please reduce McGuinness Blvd from 4 car lanes to 2 and replace those lanes with protected bike lanes going north and south. There should be a greenway as a center divider to return life to this dreary strip. As others have commented, please build connecting protected bike paths between the K Bridge and McGuinness and from McGuinness to West st. Residents of East Greenpoint near the K Bridge have no way of safely riding to McGuinness.
Table stakes for this project are wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes, automobile speed-reducing measures, more greenery (trees, shrubs, etc.). Going big would include making provision for street car service to link up to BQX, or eventual possibility that the I-287 corridor is torn down and replaced by more sensible transportation services. These options should be evaluated as well.
This stretch of Humboldt Street (between Engert and Bayard/McGuinness Blvd) has trucks of all sizes (including large dump trucks, FedEx trucks, tractor trailers, etc.) that speed down this street at all hours of the night to "shortcut" onto the BQE and McGuinness Blvd South. Not only is this unsafe for residents and pedestrians, but the street itself is in terrible condition. Please re-pave this street, and take steps to re-direct traffic to McGuinness Blvd and save this residential street from the commercial traffic. If McGuinness is reduced to fewer lanes of traffic, we need to consider what will happen to the parallel streets.
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