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June 2, 2010
A fire truck barrels west along Dean Street against traffic; won't the potential for conflict increase?
Atlantic Yards Report
Fire trucks leaving the firehouse on Dean Street east of Sixth Avenue frequently drive west, against the traffic on the one-way street. Sometimes they go only a short distance to Sixth Avenue, and turn.
Other times, as in this case (filmed at about 9:15 am on June 1), they go all the way to Flatbush Avenue, along Dean, at the southern flank of the arena block, causing cars to scurry to the curb. The blue fencing begins outside the site of Freddy's Bar & Backroom.
(That's Peter Krashes of the Dean Street Block Association in the video, encouraging documentation.)
Potential for traffic conflict?
As demolition and construction increase at the site--not to mention traffic for an arena--wouldn't the potential for traffic conflict increase?
But that's not what the Empire State Development Corporation's Final Environmental Impact Statement says, in Chapter 5, Community Facilities:
Similar to NYPD operations, FDNY response times are not expected to be significantly affected by the closing of local streets or increased traffic as the project site is accessible by three of the borough’s major thoroughfares and service to surrounding areas is from FDNY facilities that have a broad geographic distribution.
NoLandGrab: What's a minute or two of delayed response to a fire when we're getting the NBA's worst team?
Posted by eric at June 2, 2010 10:34 AM