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Noice and foot traffic with the new mass-transit 2 subway station re-opening. The principles opening site 5 were as the Preserving Time Plaza are great .
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I think it’s important to recognize that the area immediately surrounding Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park is not a typical Brownstone Brooklyn residential neighborhood. We are adjacent to Downtown Brooklyn and in addition to small townhouses, there are numerous (and increasing numbers of) high-rise apartment buildings. Most important, unlike other brownstone areas, our neighborhood is served by one of the greatest public transportation hubs in the City. Many of us chose to live in this area precisely because of the easy access to public transportation and the ability to travel easily within the City and much of its surrounding areas without owning or driving a car. Similarly, cultural institutions like BAM, Mark Morris, Theatre for a New Audience and the Barclay’s arena, as well as the shopping malls, have been attracted to or thrived in this area because it is so easily reachable without a car. And non-residents who work here or come to shop or be entertained should not be seen as intruders; they make important contributions to the area’s economy, safety and vitality. For these reasons, it’s especially important that subways, subway stations, buses, bus stops, pedestrian crossings, street and garage parking, automobile traffic patterns and bicycle paths be configured in ways that make them as safe and inviting as possible to all who use them. Also for these reasons, I believe we should make every effort to discourage car ownership among residents and discourage non-residents from driving into the area. That means that our nearby institutions and retail establishments should clearly advertise their proximity to public transportation and encourage users to take advantage of it. Businesses and City agencies (police, fire, teachers) should make the ease of getting here by public transportation a recruitment incentive. But residents of this area should also be reminded that cars are, in most cases, not needed for navigation around the City. Residential parking permits send the opposite message. They further suggest that a person who lives in the area has a greater right to this amenity than, for example, a police officer or teacher coming from an area in Southern Brooklyn where access to public transportation is limited. Why would we want to discourage such an individual from working here while, at the same time, encouraging residents who may use their vehicles relatively rarely, to take up street spaces? Of course, some residents have good reasons for owning and using cars, as do some non-residents coming into the area. Parking should not be impossible. I would leave it to others to decide whether that means increasing the number of spaces available in garages or parking lots or freeing up more street spaces or just working to reduce the number of people owning and driving cars.
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during arena activities, on-demand mid-block crosswalks, more pedestrian considerations needed in this area
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pedestrian wayfinding needs, connections to other community-wide institutions
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bike shelters to include Atlantic Avenue along the railyard? What improvements are there for the sidewalks along the rail yard— until and if they platforms are built?
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additional on-demand signalization, or mid-block crossings (Atlantic Ave)
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Atlantic Ave crossings need more countdown clocks crosswalks
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pedestrian bridges around to help ped crossings?
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Sidewalk management, wider sidewalks
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What are your major pedestrian safety concerns?
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What would development impact on Subway, what type of studies can we demand for ridership impacts? Gib--EIS will be executed but only a disclosure doc MCairl-Impact dept @ NYCT keeps tabs on this
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bring back the B to the Culver line (4th ave), and return the D back to the Brighton line. That way MTA wouldn't have to have full time B service as that line is served by 3-4 lines. It worked WAY better that way before the Manhattan Bridge was refurbished...
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What are your major subway concerns?
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garage at Pacific 6th/Carlton-pain point
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Where do you see Arena attendee people parking?
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RPP boundaries should expand wider than 5 blocks (doesn’t reach Vandy
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Do you think residential permit parking would benefit the area?
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loading docks, what can we learn from existing experiences
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Bergen & 6th cannot be overlooked as part of the greater impacts of the area
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Congestion via Dollar Vans in bus stops/curbside @ Times Plaza.
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Critical need to consider multi-modal transpo and why can’t this be incorporated into the problem scope.
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Placard parking, alleviate traffic during arena events-must enforce existing curbside regs (mismatch of regs vs enforcement).
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What are your major street traffic concerns?
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Improve air quality at the Atlantic/Flatbush/4th Avenue intersections with street tree plantings
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Off-street loading bays in building a good idea. o Limit pickup/delivery hours to ease congestion. Restrict activity to early morning and late evening hours.
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Need traffic enforcement officers to ticket and reign in blatant bad driving: Red lights seen as advisory
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Crosswalks that need to be much safer for pedestrians: Dean at 4th/5th Av; Bergen/6th Av; Flatbush/Atlantic (Sen Brisport suggested consideration of a traffic circle)
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Intersections need to be analyzed to adjust signal light timing to allow more time to complete street crossings. Current timing is especially problematic for seniors, parents with small children/strollers, people with disabilities
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What are your major pedestrian safety concerns?
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(Sen Brisport indicated he will advocate to get the proposed new subway stations on the MTA’s new projects list.)
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Cleaner, safer cars
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New stations must be ADA accessible
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There is support for the additional entrances to reduce pedestrian traffic on sidewalks
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What are your major subway concerns?
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(Sen Brisport is “open to the concept”. This is the first he’s heard of residential parking.)
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Many residents are prepared to sign petitions in support of residential parking which requires state approval. In the past, no support for the concept from NYCDOT which apparently has favored public transit solutions. However, this residential area should be seen as an exception for permitting because of the unique impact of intense competition for street parking spaces from both the area’s municipal workforce during the day and event attendees at night.
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Yes, generally a good idea to help reduce congestion and benefit residents given the placard abuse from municipal workers. One person disagreed, noting the car is private property; the street is public property available to all.
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Do you think residential permit parking would benefit the area?
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Interesting read on Moses. ;^)
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Too much activity on streets from busses, cars, bikes/bike lane, deliveries competing for space and no traffic enforcement officers to manage the congestion. Streets not designed for shared uses which need to be accommodated
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Need traffic flow relief
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• Congestion generally; daytime and event-related illegal parking, car idling
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What are your major traffic concerns?
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"Relocating the entrance...." - this sounds like no additional entrance despite the influx of new residents and foot traffic to new commercial spaces. We need more access not reconfigured entry to the subway. The Atlantic / Pacific subway interchanges have long staircases leading from the lower mezzanine to the various platforms of the IRT and 4th Avenue BMT lines. These wide stairwells should have been created with at least one escalator at each point. Perhaps the site 5 developer can be mandated to retrofit escalators beneath the headhouse skylight. Better yet, open up the headhouse doors and replace the void with stairs to the southbound 2/3 platform and save passengers at least one staircase when accessing the 4th Avenue and IRT lines from the street.
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You are right, Phil. It's dangerous enough for pedestrians looking this way and that avoiding cars and trucks and delivery guys on hybrid bikes/mopeds. The poor pedestrian is also avoiding bicyclists who rarely follow traffic rules. Then again so many of the bike lanes are a joke. You are right, if there are going to be bike lanes, then let's at least make them safe. The concept of multi use roads is also a joke. There must be a grand planner to make it easier and safer and egalitarian and integrated for everyone? Where are the big planners like Robert Moses for those of us who care about quality of life, safety and the environment.
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I'm embarrassed to say, I can't even envision where this times plaza on Flatbush and 4th Ave is. Is that the place where there is an historic building maybe of the old subway system is? At first I though it was where the old midtown florist was. But no. So I don't know how it's working. I can get to the Atlantic Center Shopping Center heading east from my neighborhood and rarely need to enter it from the west. I wonder if Robert Moses envisioned this congestion when he tore down all the houses in downtown Brooklyn to build a more car friendly city?
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I actually think parking permits are a good idea. Can you enforce it in a city this populated? Hard to say. Will only the white collar workers working from home be able to afford the parking passes and have the time to move their cars? Should there be a large parking zone outside each major shopping area; work area; residential area; and, everyone be required to park there and take a shuttle bus to their homes? That would be a new configuration for the city. I would love a parking permit and I live within the zone of the Atlantic Center. Do 98% of the people who live in this area really take the subway to work. I highly doubt that.
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Again, kind of a dilemma, right. These officers and other government employees need to park somewhere, right? They are probably coming some distance to get to work. Perhaps making it a law that city workers like police, fire etc live in the city might work. But my guess is they would still live far out in the borough where there is either no mass transportation or long commutes on mass transportation to get to work. I say provide a parking garage for them instead of a new residential building for a change. Just saying there's got to be a more egalitarian solution for everyone.
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I made a separate suggestion about a larger entrance/atrium at Site 5. Perhaps, the Times Plaza Headhouse could be elevated and connected to site 5 and Atlantic Terminal with a pedestrian bridge?
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The suggestion was brought up to connect, above ground, the two new proposed entrances. Upon further thought, perhaps the lower portion of site 5 could be an inddor public facing atrium, retail subway entrance. This could be the promised Urban Room, and create an actual indoor space that welcomes the community (vs. Atlantic Center and Terminal).
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