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Posted by Newkirk Plaza David on Wed Aug 3 13:54:25 2011, in response to Signage and Customer Service, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Aug 2 21:30:25 2011. Even more confusing is the lack of signage on the Belt Parkway notifying you of the highway you are driving on. Coming off the BQE going south (or westbound as the signs indicate) following the signage for the Belt Parkway, the first sign you see after you exit the BQE is that you are now on Leif Ericson Drive. You thought you just took the exit for the Belt Parkway, didn’t you?The next sign you see a few feet further is that now you are on the POW/MIA Highway. What happened to Leif Ericson Drive, you ask yourself, and why aren’t you on the Belt Parkway (which, of course, you are)? How many accidents are caused by last minute decisions due to poorly-worded, misleading, or missing signage, or signage placed too close or even beyond the actual decision point? The POW/MIA sign is not even placed in the correct location since the POW/MIA Highway is a co-named highway going cross-country starting from Sunrise Highway in Long Island, then along the Belt Parkway, Verrazano Bridge, Staten Island Expressway and on into New Jersey and beyond, never touching the segment of the Belt Parkway where the sign near Exit 1 is located. Go back to the BQE for a minute - - almost all signs point to the BQE even though the section from Exit 26 (Hamilton) to the V/Z Narrows Bridge is called the Gowanus Expressway - - really who cares if it's the Belt or Leif Ericcson? All I think while driving is to stay on the left lane for the Belt (Parkway or System) or to the right towo lanes for the |
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