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March 9, 2007
Wrong way! Park Slope united against Seventh and Sixth avenue one-way conversions
Brooklyn Papers
By Christie Rizk
City officials backtracked a bit this week from a bombshell proposal to convert Seventh and Sixth avenues into one-way thoroughfares, saying the much-reviled proposal would be killed if residents reject it at a meeting next week.
“These plans need community board approval and if the community doesn’t support [it], we will not move forward,” the agency said in a statement this week.
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Behind all the talk of transportation policy and urban planning is the looming shadow of Atlantic Yards, which, as proposed, would add 15,000 to 20,000 residents to neighboring Prospect Heights and bring 19,000 screaming basketball fans to the area every game night.Atlantic Yards is a state-approved project, but the job of fixing its myriad traffic woes belongs to the city.
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A typical basketball arena requires streets that are dedicated to getting lots of people to the game, and getting people away from there after the game. This is not usually a problem for arenas located away from city centers, but it’s a whole different ball game for an arena in the middle of a low-rise neighborhood with poor traffic flow already.Though the one-way streets may be ideal traffic solutions in other settings, in Park Slope, the solution for the 40 game nights every year will create problems for everyone else on the other 320 days, explained [traffic expert Andy] Wiley-Schwartz.
Posted by lumi at March 9, 2007 7:12 AM