Community Board 9 To Host Zoom Meeting on Proposed Streets Changes To Kingston and Brooklyn Aves
by CrownHeights.info
Brooklyn’s Community Board 9, which covers the Crown Heights Jewish community, will be hosting a Zoom Meeting on Monday, August 5th at 6:30pm and will discuss the proposed traffic and bike lane changes to Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.
Link to the Zoom event can be found at Calendar (nyc.gov) – ( Zoom link is embedded in Calendar).
According to the NYC DOT, they are proposing safety improvements on Brooklyn Avenue and Kingston Avenue between Empire Boulevard and Winthrop Street. This School Safety project intends to serve children who attend the 10+ schools located nearby.
NYC DOT has proposed a southbound parking protected bike lane on Brooklyn Avenue and a northbound parking protected bike lane on Kingston Avenue between Empire Boulevard and Winthrop Street, connecting to a proposed protected bike lane loop around Wingate Park and the George Wingate campus. Additionally, NYC DOT proposes conventional bike lanes on Rutland Road and Fenimore Street between Flatbush Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue.
The proposal includes signal timing improvements, painted curb extensions, pedestrian islands, intersection daylighting, and turn calming treatments throughout the project area. The proposal aims to calm traffic, reduce speeding, shorten pedestrian crossings, improve visibility, and provide a dedicated space for cyclists.
Ronald Reagan
I’m from the government and I’m here to help you
NWA - Nebbishes Wit Attitudes
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/brooklyncb9/downloads/pdf/2024/brooklyn-ave-kingston-ave-empire-blvd-winthrop-st-jun2024.pdf – p 19
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-bike-map-2024.pdf
– It appears from the NYC Bike Map, that NYC DOT would like to extend the existing Kingston & Brooklyn Ave bike lanes which are north (CB 8) of Eastern Pkwy, south, down though CB 9 to Winthrop.
The proposals are utterly stupid
I have been at BR Lefferts for now 6 years with my 3 daughters the traffic will not be better or safer to narrow traffic on either Brooklyn or Kingston. I have seen more stupid drivers but narrowing the roads won’t fix stupid. There is a building right on Brooklyn & Sterling that has houses crazies and drug addicts who are dangerous. There have been so many crashes at Montgomery & Brooklyn