This pedestrian walkway is crumbling and forces pedestrians to cross car traffic 5 times. Reducing the size and number of lanes, and increasing the size of sidewalks would support the pedestrians here.

pedestrian traffic makes this a crowded sidewalk and endangers people who walk into the street to pass pedestrians

Cross Walks ( or raised crosswalks ) should be implemented here as many small children cross to the park at this intersection.

The connection of the bike lane along Greenpoint Avenue is unsafe in mixed traffic with sharrows. I typically use Eckford Street to travel north toward the Pulaski Bridge to avoid McGuinness and Manhattan, but the uphill climb on Greenpoint to the northbound Manhattan Ave. bike lane is very difficult to navigate due to traffic, parked cars, and the Citibike station on the north side of Greenpoint Ave. Please reroute Pulaski Bridge bike traffic along a protected cycle track on the west side of McGuinness.

Humbolt St and Flushing Ave should both see cycling improvements as part of this initiative. There is a great opportunity here to create a safe protected bike route from the Pulaski Bridge, down McGuiness and Humbolt St to Flushing Ave and down Flushing Ave to Kent Ave (to connect to the protected bike infrastructure on Flushing Ave). This would increase equity and provide safe biking infrastructure though East Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed Stuy and the Broadway Triangle and provide safe options for people to bike to Queens and Lower Manhattan / Downtown Brooklyn.

Please introduce a two-way bike lane on Driggs from Meeker to Division, connecting with the Williamsburg Bridge bike lane entrance. If there is not sufficient space to install a two-way curbside protected route on Driggs, then please consider installing contraflow bike lanes instead, where on a one-way street bike traffic takes the lane with car traffic going one direction, flanked on the left side by a bike lane going in the opposite direction. This is safe for cyclists because bikes going in the opposite direction of car traffic can clearly see oncoming traffic and, combined with other traffic calming such as curb extensions for daylighting and raised intersections on on all street corners, there is little to no risk of blind spots or speeding car traffic. Also, bikes taking the lane in the same direction as car traffic will be clearly visible to cars, again minimizing crash risk.

Greenpoint Ave & McGuinness is a busy and unsafe intersection that should be enhanced with pedestrian & cycle improvements. Greenpoint, as an important bike route between Greenpoint & Sunnyside should have concrete-protected bike lanes to ensure safety as the area is very industrial and encounters heavy truck traffic. This should connect seamlessly with McGuinness as well as extending over to the cycle route on West Street. McGuinness in turn should have a concrete-protected cycle route connecting the Pulaski bridge with Meeker Ave, Metropolitan, and Grand.

Greenpoint/McGuiness is a tough intersection for cyclists travelling east-west. Some people just bike on the sidewalk here.