Comments on: Revised Kent Ave Plan Extends Bike Route to Flushing Ave

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:14:48 +0000

I went to the CB1 meeting last night. Vincent Abate confirmed that it is “a done deal”.
I think a class action lawsuit against the city, the DOT, and our own community board 1 , would be a good place to start. Why wait for the first fatality from this dangerous plan?
These streets won’t hold a stopped fully loaded 18 wheeler because McCarren Park IS a swamp barely under the surface. The big condos that went up hit the water table at 15 feet. I see disaster on the near horizon , if the plan comes to be. Bloomberg can only see his myopic “legacy’ in completing greenways and bike paths and not the safety of residents.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:50:28 +0000

Here is a map to see the proposed route on.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:18:00 +0000

If you lived on N 11th or N 14th street in 11211 , you would be really pissed off. If you wanted to move a truck of material , bread, produce, livestock, art, etc from Greenpoint, you would be pretty mad to drive a mile and a half out of the way to get to south side Williamsburg , Navy Yard, BQE … It is a danger to a steady flow of McCarren Park goers (children,pets,bicyclists, teams of soccer players) Most distracted by the park, and already in a crazily under-marked set of converging thoroughfares. Motorcyclists,truck and cars are driving like demons to get to and thru the park. If you drive, you know how the right turn onto N 11th street off of Roebling st comes up on you fast. Imagine a truck or two that is waiting to turn onto Union avenue. Even with stoplights, the trucks will have to cross over 5 avenues , the biggest being Bedford avenue.
I think the plan sucks. I think the trucks should parallel the route down Wythe avenue , or stay how it is, untill a different plan is come up with.

By: john

john — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:38:11 +0000

that looks like a pretty darn safe installation to me, i dont know the area and i don’t know its effects in terms of noise re-distribution or what not but increasing safety and accessibility for cyclists can only mean good things

By: Jeffrey Hymen

Jeffrey Hymen — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:18:39 +0000

More than that, Marty. “NIMBY’s complain about small, Class II bike lane. DOT comes back with an extended Class I bike lane as the solution…” and plans to route trucks all over the more residential portions of the neighborhood, not to mention the probable off-route truck traffic.

By: Marty Barfowitz

Marty Barfowitz — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:00:48 +0000

Gotta love it. Irrational NIMBY’s complain about small, Class II bike lane. DOT comes back with an extended Class I bike lane as the solution. Take that, NIMBY’s.

By: J-Uptown

J-Uptown — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:49:36 +0000

Trucks are routed over to Union Ave.

By: SBound

SBound — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:39:32 +0000

What’s the new South bound pair for displaced Kent traffic?