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January 8, 2006
A Traffic Knot, Pulling Tighter
The New York Times writes about our future nostalgia for the current Flatbush/Atlantic intersection:
A few feet below lies a major transit hub - the Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street subway stations, which handle 10 lines, and a Long Island Rail Road station - that serves about 50,000 riders a day. And on the intersection's north side sits the Atlantic Terminal, a mall that houses, among other things, one of the busiest Target stores in the Northern Hemisphere. But in the coming years, drivers, pedestrians and those who live nearby may remember these days as a time when traffic was not really so bad after all.
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"If you slow things up on Flatbush, you're backed up to Prospect Park," noted Mr. Schwartz, who has been hired by Forest City Ratner to consult on the project. "If you slow up Fourth Avenue, you're backed up to Park Slope. And if you slow down Atlantic, you're backed up to Central Brooklyn."
TimesRatnerReport covers what the Times missed: "the issue of cost, the responsibilities of public agencies, and some innovative strategies."
Posted by amy at January 8, 2006 11:02 AM