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March 14, 2007
Which way would Pacific Street go? The FEIS confuses
Atlantic Yards Report
All this talk about traffic turned up a total discrepancy in both the Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards plan:
Two separate chapters of the Atlantic Yards Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) offer contradictory accounts of the fate of Pacific Street between Fourth and Flatbush avenues.
That street, currently one way going west, would be made one way going east, as indicated in Chapter 19, Mitigation of the FEIS (p. 19-11).
However, Chapter 12, page 12 sez:
Under the proposed project, Pacific Street... would be converted to bi-directional operation between 4th and Flatbush Avenues.
While large documents inevitably are imperfect, this error further suggests that proofreading and harmonizing the document was less of a priority than the rush for approval before the end of Gov. George Pataki's administration.
Posted by lumi at March 14, 2007 7:38 AM