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| Re: Fighting the DOT S(BS) on Woodhaven Blvd (318179) | |||
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Re: Fighting the DOT S(BS) on Woodhaven Blvd |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Sep 15 15:38:22 2016, in response to Re: Fighting the DOT S(BS) on Woodhaven Blvd, posted by TerrApin Station on Tue Sep 13 23:01:53 2016. True, but sometimes their belief of unfairness has merit as is the case here.DOT comes to the community stating they want to make bus travel faster on Woodhaven as well as to make the street safer. NOT ONCE DID THEY ASK THE COMMUNITY HOW THEY WOULD WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS. Instead DOT took the attitude that they are the experts who know everything while those who use the street everyday know nothing. They state at the first meeting that they have already decided that SBS is the solution. When the community asks what if we do not want SBS, the response is that you are getting it anyway. So the community then wants to know the purpose of the meetings. The response is that they want the community to help design SBS. Then DOT develops three alternatives. The community chooses alternative 1 with service road SBS lanes. DOT picks Alternative 2. Then makes a few concessions after widespread protest to show the process was "democratic" which was far from the case. A fair process would have SBS as one of the options and after discussions, then DOT would decide if that would be the solution that would go forward. That scenario never occurred. |
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