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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Apr 20 19:49:50 2016, in response to Re: Attention all B36 Bus riders, posted by terRAPIN station on Wed Apr 20 15:00:41 2016. I refuted all of R30A's points. You did nothing but attack. You never addressed any of the issues.Here is the text of the petition if that makes you happy: (The website made the text into a single paragraph.) DOT is out of control making changes no one wants since Mayor de Blasio gave the Transportation commissioner authority last year to ignore communities and other elected officials when Vision Zero is involved. In Sheepshead Bay on April 24th, with only 12 days notice, a portion of East 15th Street will be turned into a pedestrian mall and two blocks of Sheepshead Bay Road between Jerome Avenue and East 15th Street will become one way in the name of increasing safety under Vision Zero. DOT has determined the intersection of East 17th Street to be dangerous although there was only one fatality there in ten years and twelve injuries spread out over five years. Is that enough justification to inconvenience nearly 5,000 daily commuting trips? How does that compare with other intersections where DOT is not proposing any changes? The fatality a few months ago at East 17th Street and Avenue Z was the first one at that location since at least 2007. DOT is also now considering that a dangerous intersection. The truth is that with nearly 5,000 additional street crossings per day, pedestrian vehicular conflicts will increase and the streets will become more dangerous, not safer, under the DOT plan. These additional crossings will result from a rerouting of the B36 bus to operate straight on Avenue Z rather than directly serving the subway station as it has been doing all these years. Vehicular turning movements will also increase at the intersection of East 17th Street and Avenue Z also increasing the dangers for pedestrians at that location. This change will require B36 bus passengers to walk an extra 260 foot block during all sorts of weather to access the subway. Subway passengers will also have to walk an extra block to access the B36 bus which could add as much as 20 minutes to your trip if the extra walk causes you to miss your connection. Buses and trains need to be made more convenient, not less convenient. Why should you be able to get a taxi in front of the subway station but now have to walk a block to the bus? The B36 route has dipped down to serve the Sheepshead Bay Station since 1978 when the route was revised because half the passengers get on or off the bus to access the subway. Sheepshead Bay Station is the sixth heaviest bus subway transfer point in Brooklyn and transferring should be as convenient as possible. DOT has not presented any traffic counts to show that traffic congestion will be reduced and not merely shifted from Sheepshead Bay Road to Avenue Z between East 15th and East 17 Street, causing more traffic congestion there. They have not addressed the real congestion problems existing on Sheepshead Bay Road south of Jerome Avenue and on Voorhies Avenue and East 18th Street where turning cars have to wait 15 to 30 minutes just to make a turn at that intersection between 4 and 7 PM. Their proposal was first presented last June to the local community board and was soundly rejected by them as well as by the merchants on Sheepshead Bay Road and other local community groups. Now without any explanation it has resurfaced. Rather than implementing their proposal on a trial basis in order for data to be collected to see if it works, DOT intends to start pouring concrete within one month so that their decision cannot be reversed. DOT has also been non-responsive to our elected officials telling at least one of them, thank you for your input but this project is moving forward anyway. Only one notice of change has been posted inside the subway station which can easily be missed by rushing commuters. There are no signs in the buses or any notification on the MTA website under Planned Service Changes for April 24, 2016. Therefore, we the undersigned are opposed to this sudden traffic change and bus rerouting and demand DOT not to make this a permanent change and the MTA not change the B36 bus route. I will send the link to anyone interested in signing if they email me. |
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