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April 25, 2007
Warning on Ratner Parking and Congestion Pricing
Develop Don't Destroy Advisory Board Member and former City Planning Commissioner Ron Shiffman explains that the Mayor's congestion-pricing plan will overwhelm Central Brooklyn with park-n-ride commuters if the City doesn't implement a residential-parking-permit plan for Central Brooklyn.
Shiffman's statement from dddb.net:
Unless parking restrictions are put in place along with the Mayor's proposal to improve transit, the reality could be that if the city establishes congestion pricing–which I strongly advocate–and Forest City Ratner develops 1200 parking spaces–and eventually 3,800 parking spaces–then people from the rest of Brooklyn, Long Island and Staten Island who normally drive to Manhattan will park in those spaces. In the future they will use the parking developed for Downtown Brooklyn and the Nets as a resource for parking and will then take the subway into Manhattan. We need to eliminate the parking in Downtown Brooklyn and make Downtown Brooklyn and Atlantic Avenue and all other environmental hotspots part of the congestion pricing area.
Posted by lumi at April 25, 2007 8:07 AM