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October 12, 2006
Talk about BrooklynSpeaks
Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Brooklyn Coalition Calls for Big Transportation Changes to Atlantic Yards
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign promoted BrooklynSpeaks in its latest newsletter, "Mobilizing the Region." The group focused on transportation concerns, but steered away from the more controversial issue of whether or not an arena should be sited at a transportation hub, despite the fact that it would be located at what is currently one of the most congested and problematic intersections in Brooklyn.
The coalition’s transportation position calls for project plans that:
* Minimize creation of new parking
* Eliminate the giant surface parking lot that is now part of “Phase I”
* Residential parking permits to protect nearby areas from arena-going motorists
* Zoning to eliminate the development of a secondary parking industry around the arena
* Stronger incentives for mass transit use
* Traffic calming to protect residential streets
* Bus lanes to keep transit riders from getting bogged down in worsening traffic
* Advances a plan for additional subway capacity into the next MTA capital program
* Uses roadway pricing to reduce through-traffic in downtown Brooklyn and adjacent areas
Whatever I Want It To Be, The Useful and the Beautiful - Meet Here
Blogger Kimberly Kinchen promotes BrooklynSpeaks as "Once more, Art, meet Wonk...Wonk, meet Art."
BrooklynSpeaks, Community Boards, APA weigh in on Atlantic Yards
All three of the Community Boards that represent the Atlantic Yards site – Brooklyn Community Boards 2, 6 and 8 - recently submitted comments on the project. Strikingly, their comments – as well as those recently released by the New York chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) – demonstrate a striking degree of consensus about what’s wrong with the current Atlantic Yards proposal.
Posted by lumi at October 12, 2006 8:54 AM