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Turn Signal Adds Safety at Eastern Parkway Intersection

This past Rosh Hashanah, a horrific accident at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. left two female Tishrei visitors severely injured. The accident was subsequently blamed on an eastbound traveling SUV that tried to complete a left turn onto Kingston Ave., only to be t-boned by a sedan traveling westbound along the parkway.

Over the weekend, the New York City Dept. of Transportation has installed a turning signal at eastbound side of the intersection, insuring that cars turning left onto Kingston will not cross paths with the westbound traffic on the parkway.

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9 Comments

  • good, but

    why did it take so long to get it, since that tragedy on Rosh Hashana?
    why can’t all such type of intersections have this?? It should not Chasve sholom take such an accident to get something 6 months later…..
    but good that its there….

  • nonesense

    if they want to stop the accidents they should add the 3rd lane

    they should take away the bike lanes

    take away the bus lanes

    make empire blvd back to 2 lanes

    i understand they are trying to force us to stop driving, but its killing people

  • zalman

    they should just make a new law and ban all cars from the road this way there will never be any accidents

  • sb

    B’shaa tova umeztlachas,
    now lets get the bochurim to follow street crossing rules and we’ll all be safer

  • Clarification

    Adding a turn signal won’t stop a car being t-boned if the car turns when the driver has a steady green (instead of a green arrow), it will only (hopefully) prevent the car from being t-boned if the driver turns when there is a green arrow (and the westbound traffic have a red light).

    • Correct

      For that you need a red left turn arrow while the oncoming traffic has a green light, and a green left turn arrow while the oncoming traffic has a red light (and people who obey the light). The way it is now is also dangerous for pedestrians if the pedestrians look at the red light but don’t also look at the don’t walk signal. Pedestrians may incorrectly assume that a red light in the westbound direction means a red light in both directions and start to cross Eastern Parkway, when in fact the east bound direction still has a green light along with the green arrow for the left turn.