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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Aug 31 20:21:51 2015, in response to Re: Why the Emphasis on Pedestrian Fatalities?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Aug 30 22:06:36 2015. What is your definition of an arterial street? The definition has changed. When the Manhattan Avenues were made one way as other streets were in the 1950s and 60's and traffic signals were synchronized, they became arterial streets with sidewalks narrowed so they could be increased from four to five lanes.Moses never proposed to turn every Manhattan Avenue into a limited access highway. There were maybe a half dozen arterial roads onthe entire city that he wanted to turn into expressways. streets like Ocean Parkway and Bushwick Avenue and a few others. That is far from "all arterial streets". Additionally, many streets were widened through the 1970s by narrowing sidewalks besides the Manhattan Avenues. I personally remember when Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn was widened from four to six lanes around 1975. I also remember Emmons Avenue also being widened from four to six lanes. Being an emgineer doesn't give you the right to make up stories. |
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