Difficult Turn/Crossing

10/26/2018 - 07:12

Approaching this intersection on 48th St is a nightmare. It's a wide open plain that super confusing b/c of the angled streets, The car drivers WILL RUN YOU DOWN, unless you position yourself very self-confidently at the head of the pack at the red light. Please calm this intersection down, with islands, LPIs that work for bicyclists, clear street markings + bumps that prevent car drivers from taking short cuts.

Truck Parked on Sidewalk

10/26/2018 - 06:40

Big pickup trucks parked at Koeppel face the sidewalk, creating a menacing environment. The city needs to ban setbacks on Northern. New showrooms like this one should come up to the sidewalk line, with cars inside — not outside, glaring at passers-by.

Curbside Parking Issue

10/26/2018 - 06:38

All along Northern, there is a "no stopping" zone from 7 am to 10 am. Yet at many locations, including this one, shops use the curbside lane during those hours. This shows that we don't actually need 3 mixed-traffic lanes, and have quite a bit of pavement that could be re-dedicated to tree allees or protected bike lanes. Here, shoppers stop for the deli.

Truck Parked on Sidewalk

10/26/2018 - 06:34

The block from 60th-61st (like many others) is dominated by auto-oriented businesses. They abuse the sidewalk by leaving cars parked on it, reducing pedestrian space and indicating to other motorists that this isn't a city of walkers and residents but a place for machines, like a suburban strip. I don't think increased enforcement is the answer; rather we need to get rid of most of the curb cuts and have vehicle-oriented businesses either move or reorient their entrances toward the side streets. To those who ask how these businesses can survive without facing Northern, I suggest that a developer could build a multi-story building for many of these businesses, with a single entrance, rather than having everyone pull in straight off the street. That's just one idea and I'm sure there are others.

Dangerous Merge

10/26/2018 - 06:23

This isn't an onramp, it's part of a city street. But it is striped to look and feel like an onramp, getting people prepared to go 60+mph. The part that is on Northern should be narrowed to 9 feet, like old parkway ramps. There should be a green-painted bike lane to the left of it. The giant overhead directional signs should be much smaller, again causing people to slow down. The stripes separating lanes should be shorter and closer together, again indicating a slow-speed zone. The big curved ramp should be replaced by an 80 or 90-degree right turn, and the corner should be developed with a building so as to maintain a sense of urbanity rather than the ugly, wide-open strip-mall environment that makes people forget that they are in NYC and should be driving slow.

Dangerous Merge

10/26/2018 - 06:11

When drivers arrive from an expressway, they should have every possible cue that they are going onto a city street, rather than a suburban arterial or another highway. This intersection should be a normal 90-degree corner, rather than a curved merge. That way every driver will have to slow down just to get on the street, giving people a chance to slow their brains from 60mph being "slow" to 25 mph being "fast."

Curbside Parking Issue

10/26/2018 - 06:08

All along Northern, there is a "no stopping" zone from 7 am to 10 am. Yet at many locations, including this one, shops use the curbside lane during those hours. This shows that we don't actually need 3 mixed-traffic lanes, and have quite a bit of pavement that could be re-dedicated to tree allees or protected bike lanes. Here at 69th, the convenience store's bread trucks use the curb.

Curbside Parking Issue

10/26/2018 - 06:04

All along Northern, there is a "no stopping" zone from 7 am to 10 am. Yet at many locations, including this one, shops use the curbside lane during those hours. This shows that we don't actually need 3 mixed-traffic lanes, and have quite a bit of pavement that could be re-dedicated to tree allees or protected bike lanes. Here, CVS uses the curb for big-rigs to stock the store.

Long Distance to Cross

10/25/2018 - 13:22

With a new school in the works containing perhaps 6000 students, this intersection is going to become very dangerous, especially in the winter mornings. Something must be done to restructure this intersection so that children can cross it safely during the dusky morning hours or when the rising and setting sun are in driver's eyes.

Bike Lane Requested

10/25/2018 - 12:10

All of Northern Blvd. should have dedicated Bus lanes closest to the sidewalks and then another 3 feet of dedicated Bike lane and then concrete barriers and two lanes of traffic in both directions. Inner travel lane should become left turn preferred with flashing yellow turn arrows on traffic signals.