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March 8, 2008
Parking? Lots
The Brooklyn Paper, Letter to the Editor
Residential Parking Permits are one of several tools that the city needs to employ in the coming years to manage supply and demand of our increasingly strained roadways.Atlantic Yards, for example, is expected to generate as many as 20,000 new car trips a day. For the neighborhoods surrounding Atlantic Yards, permit parking is needed to discourage arena patrons from cruising for free parking.
But permits by themselves won’t be enough if those cars continue to drive to the arena and park in local lots. The city should insist that Forest City Ratner develop alternate plans for its “interim” parking lot, which would accommodate as many as 1,400 cars.
Without improvements to public transportation and disincentives to drive, the costs of free parking and free driving will continue to be borne by residents and pedestrians through increased accidents, elevated asthma rates, noise pollution and degraded quality of life.
Danae Oratowski, Prospect Heights
Posted by amy at March 8, 2008 9:57 AM