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May 29, 2010
Second look: fire truck going the wrong way on Dean Street; clarification: congestion caused more by closure of Pacific Street than of bridge
Atlantic Yards Report
Yesterday I pointed to Tracy Collins's time-lapse photography of congestion on Dean Street adjacent to the Atlantic Yards footprint.
In the very brief segment below, he's pulled out the sequence in which a fire truck leaving the station at 494 Dean Street (just out of the frame on the left) travels west against traffic on Dean Street before turning right, north, on Sixth Avenue.
A clarification on cause of congestion
Yesterday and in previous coverage of congestion on Dean Street, I suggested that it was caused both by the closure of the Carlton Avenue Bridge, which should reopen in two years, and the permanent closure of parts of Pacific Street.
But the bridge closed in January 2008, and the increase in traffic didn't accelerate until parts of Pacific Street closed in March. So the latter deserves most of the blame.
NoLandGrab: Closed bridge, closed streets, whatever. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Atlantic Yards has significantly slowed down emergency response times, though the ESDC and the city swear it hasn't. What's a few seconds when Bruce's profits are on the line?
Posted by eric at May 29, 2010 10:31 AM