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August 20, 2010
"Temporary Change of Traffic Pattern on Flatbush Avenue" now means at least 22 months, not 17 months
Atlantic Yards Report
As traffic patterns change on Flatbush Avenue today, we should know that lanes will close for a lot longer than originally announced: at least five months.
Forest City Ratner snuck a rather significant policy change into a mailer sent out this week to some Brooklynites. (Copy below is via Brownstoner.)
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The "temporary" change in traffic pattern on Flatbush Avenue--six lanes becoming five between Dean Street and Atlantic Avenue--will not last from August 1 (as originally announced) or today (the revised plan) until "early 2012," as stated in both community notices embedded below.
Summer 2012, not "early 2012"
It will last until "the new Barclays Center Arena opens in summer 2012." By no stretch of the imagination does summer come "early" in the year.
I had been conservative in my earlier estimate of 17 months. Now it's 22 months to the beginning of the summer in late June 2012.
What if arena's delayed?
But what if the arena opens in the late summer? What if it's delayed?
NoLandGrab: Is Forest City ever honest about anything?
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Brownstoner, More Traffic Inconveniences Around Arena
Traffic on Flatbush Avenue is about to get a whole lot more snarled. According to a mailer that went out this week from Forest City Ratner, the busy thoroughfare will lose a lane of southbound traffic during morning rush hour for the next year or so while "improvements" are is made on the Atlantic Avenue subway station.
Posted by eric at August 20, 2010 11:52 AM