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Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Mon Apr 14 11:59:10 2014, in response to Re: Atlantic Avenue speed limit lower to 25 mph, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Apr 14 10:40:35 2014. That's how it should be.It should be that on a surface street with intersections every 250 feet, that someone who gets off a bus at an intermediate intersection has to walk 880 feet to cross the street? Establishing crosswalks artificially far apart does the same thing as setting speed limits artificially low - it increases the number of violations and does nothing to improve safety. Where the Belt Parkway is elevated, you can only go under it usually only every quarter mile. Should we build pedestrian underpasses? If there's significant pedestrian demand from one side to the other, then yes. The truth is the Belt Parkway was built to increase the speed of cars at the expense of non-motorized users. As a result, it created a barrier to pedestrians and encouraged auto-centric land use around it, so the pedestrian demand went away. That's poor planning in an urban environment where less than half the population has a car. Why would we want to duplicate that on Atlantic Avenue? |
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