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Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 13 23:36:52 2014, in response to Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph, posted by sloth on Sun Apr 13 21:11:06 2014. I drive a delivery route that spits me out at the end of the Interboro, or Conduit Ave, and requires me to cross all of Brooklyn westbound, sometimes on Eastern Pkwy, sometimes on Atlantic Ave.1. Commercial traffic is prohibited on both the Interboro and Eastern Parkways. Take Empire Blv instead. Atlantic Ave is already a bad stretch of road due to the red light cameras, heavy police presence, and shitty neighborhoods it passes thru. The clear inference is that the red light cameras cause delays. Why is that? Would you or other drivers have stopped at red signals without the cameras? A speed limit of 25, if enforced, would add an unacceptable amount of time to my trip. The distance from the end of the Interboro to the end of Eastern Pkwy (Flatbush Ave) is 3.90 miles. The change in speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph would require an additional 93.6 seconds of driving time. The distance along Atlantic Ave from Conduit to Flatbush is 5.34 miles. The decrease in speed limit increases driving time by 128 seconds. 45 on the BQE being one ridiculous example, and 30 on major surface roads being another. Pedestrian protection is the reason for lowering the speed limit. The proposals do not include limited access highways that prohibit pedestrians. There is a definite need for including arterial streets. They account for 16% of the street grid and 60% of pedestrian fatalities. If progress is to be made reducing pedestrian fatalities, that effort must start where pedestrian deaths occur. Something like this will add time to every commercial trip made on Atlantic Ave. What about the 10 pedestrians who were killed crossing Atlantic Avenue between 2008 and 2012? Many were on commercial trips to visit stores on Atlantic. |
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