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Posted by ftgreeneg on Sun Dec 4 11:02:06 2016, in response to Re: The real reason for New York City's traffic nightmare, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Dec 4 07:56:49 2016. As a driver i've bf vision zero and after vision zero traffic has slowed significantly. Suprisingly it isn't lowerin the speed limit that alowing everything down its everything else.(I'll use Bklyn as an example since i drive there most but this is going on everywhere) •Dekalb and Layfayette Av used to be the fastest way to get to from Downtown BK to Bed Stuy/Bushwick/Ridgewood. They were both two lane one way streets. They installed a bike lane and made them one lane for a significant distances. Now instead of the traffic flowing like it used to both streets are parking lots. The kicker is both street have sections,where they retain 2 lanes and the bike lane and no the street don't get any wider so it is possible to have both but DOT decided to voluntary create traffic where their wasn't any. This is happening all over the city not to residential streets but main thoroughfare's. • Atlantic Ave main thoroughfare travelling Downtown BK to Jamaica Queens. Esp since BK lacks highways. I can speak for Brooklyn they've been taking away left turns from Atlantic for significant distances. Making ppl have to travel longer distances to be able to turn on the streer they need. Making traffic slower keeping cars on already clogged Atlantic longer and putting more cars on residential streets fue to drivers having to back track to their destination. Or even worse have drivers forgo Atlantic all together and travel crosstown on residential streets (with more children) more than likely speeding. Vision Zero isn't the solution. The answer is much more simple and a single pronged approach. Put speed and red light camera's literally everywhere. Once rhe speeds have tickets flooding their mailboxes they slow down or lose their license if they can't pay problem solved. The cameras will pay for itself from the revenue from the tickets |
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