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December 21, 2007
Expert: There is a way to fix Atlantic Yards traffic
The Brooklyn Paper, Letters
The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects supports bringing basketball to Brooklyn but does not "feel that enough thought has been given to the traffic impact of the overall development."
Here is the Chapter's four-point solution:
The city should prohibit the Nets arena from providing any off-street parking at the arena site. Instead, the city should provide municipal parking for approximately 1,000 cars at one or several locations in an industrial area in the Brownsville/East New York area, within walking distance of public transportation. This parking would be used on a daily basis for business people driving to work as well as for patrons attending basketball games.
However, on game nights, either the Nets or the Atlantic Yards developer should be required to provide shuttle buses from the remote parking areas to the arena.Eliminate parking on all major thoroughfares going to, or coming from, Manhattan during rush hours, and meter all side streets in the area. Enforce existing “Don’t Block the Box” rules at all major intersections.
Eliminate parking permits for city employees’ private vehicles to encourage them to take public transportation.
Discount bus and subway fares during off hours.
NoLandGrab: Eliminating "parking permits for city employees’ private vehicles" and discounting "bus and subway fares during off hours" sound like good ideas. Seriously, WTF does it have to do with Atlantic Yards?
Posted by lumi at December 21, 2007 5:23 AM