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July 21, 2006
Every group hates traffic
The Brooklyn Papers
By Brendan Mysliwiec
A coalition of 28 community groups — spanning a wide swath from Bay Ridge to Greenpoint — are demanding that Mayor Bloomberg focus more attention on the traffic that is “blanketing our streets with cars and trucks.”
The groups’ demands — contained in a July 13 letter to City Hall — come as traffic is increasingly perceived as a leading quality-of-life problem.
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The traffic concerns are especially acute, given the pace of recent development, such as in Williamsburg and Greenpoint and along Fourth Avenue, where upzoning has encouraged rapid growth.And hanging like a specter over central Brooklyn is Bruce Ratner’s nearly 7,000-apartment, 18,000-seat basketball arena proposed for Prospect Heights.
Posted by lumi at July 21, 2006 12:35 PM