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April 12, 2007
Community Board Six Rejects Sixth & Seventh Ave. One-Way Proposal, Punts on 9th Street Bike Lanes
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During a nearly 3 1/2 hour meeting last night in Park Slope, Community Board Six disposed of the one-way proposal for Sixth and Seventh Avenues that had sparked an outpouring of neighborhood opposition.
Small groups of protesters were in the audience, and an unusually large number of police were also in attendance.
The Board handled the one-way issue--which had resulted in a crowd of more than 500 people showing up for a March 15 Transportation Committee meeting--first. It unanimously passed a motion requesting the Department of Transportation "continue working in a meaningful way" with the Community Board on transportation issues such as reducing the speed of cars on Eighth Avenue and on Prospect Park West (which are one-way streets). Then, it unanimously passed a motion requesting that DOT not go forward with the Sixth and Seventh Avenue plans "period." (There had been questions about earlier language being too vague.) The Board passed a third motion asking DOT to table plans to add turning bays to Fourth Avenue until further discussions with the community take place.
NoLandGrab: For those of you who are following the Ninth St. bike lane issue, you'll be interested to know that there were more cops than cyclists at the CB6 meeting, kind of like the Critical Mass Ride (Brooklyn Edition).
Also, the fabled tablecloth cum sign-in sheet from the March 15 meeting at which the DOT presented plans to convert 6th & 7th Avenues to one-way streets, was unfolded so all the Board Members could have a look at the spontaneous expression of public participation. About 160 names with addresses were retrieved from the tablecloth — these people will receive an update from CB6 on the DOT one-way plan.
Posted by lumi at April 12, 2007 4:31 PM