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August 14, 2011
Nine violations by trucks of the Amended Memorandum of Environmental Commitments, Barclays Center Truck Rules and Requirements and/or NYC law are documented today before noon
Atlantic Yards Watch
Nine violations by trucks of the Amended Memorandum of Environmental Commitments, Barclays Center Truck Rules and Requirements, and/or NYC law were documented before noon today. The filer was stationary and only captured those incidents within the visual range of his/her location. The times below are from the incident reports.
1). 5:50 am
A flatbed truck delivering steel idles under the windows of Newswalk's residences on Pacific Street between Carlton and 6th Avenues. The Barclays Center truck rules require trucks to wait on Pacific Street between Carlton and Vanderbilt and advance under the guidance of a flagger at Carlton and Pacific Street. They are not allowed to wait in this location.
The report states the truck idled for over an hour and that the driver ignored a request to move from a resident. The photo below apparently shows an Atlantic Yards worker documenting the truck with a cell phone camera.
2 and 3). 8:44 am
Two trucks, one red and one white, travel Pacific Street between 6th and Carlton Avenues uncovered. ESD has told Atlantic Yards Report that starting August 5th trucks associated with McKissack, (the contractor they identify as the source of the uncovered trucks previously reported at Atlantic Yards Watch), will be removed from the construction project if they leave the work site uncovered. However, a later incident detailed below documents uncovered trucks like these, (possibly even these same trucks), entering the Barclays Center work site which is supervised by Hunt.
The trucks shown in the photo below either left the site uncovered at Carlton Avenue and Pacific Street, or reached this location by traveling a route not designated as a truck route by NYCDOT like Carlton Avenue and/or Dean Street.
4 and 5). 9:00 am
Two flatbed trucks delivering steel wait, (and the incident report states idle), on Pacific Street between 6th and Carlton to enter the arena block. They are not allowed to wait in this location. Note that one is parked in the travel lane of Pacific Street near the main arena entrance gate. This has happened before.
At around the 4:50 point in the video an empty flatbed truck leaves the arena block entrance, making room for the the forward steel truck to advance. As it moves to the gate a pedestrian pushing a baby carriage is in the crosswalk. The pedestrian is forced to walk around the steel delivery while a green van, which the incident report states is also associated with construction, moves forward without stopping at the designated stopping area roughly 150 feet from the stop light. Note how the operation of backing the steel trailer into the arena block ties up the 6th Avenue/ Pacific Street intersection.
Mostly westbound Pacific Street is currently designed to accommodate eastbound vehicles heading to a LIRR railyard access ramp located east of the 6th Avenue intersection. A "two way traffic ahead" sign and a "do not enter" sign providing instruction to drivers in this location were knocked down around a while ago, possibly by construction, and have not been replaced despite 311 calls.
6). 11:06 am
A truck leaves the railyard entrance on Atlantic Avenue near Carlton and turns onto Clermont Avenue. Clermont appears to be regularly used by trucks from this entrance gate, but it is not a designated truck route. The following is the second of a sequence of four photos. McKissack is the contractor for work in the railyard.
7). 11:15
Either the same red truck, or another, travels Pacific Street uncovered.
8 and 9). 12:00 am
The same red and white trucks, or two more, travel down Pacific Street between Carlton and 6th uncovered. The first video shows them traveling down the street and the second entering the Barclays Center site. These trucks either left the construction site uncovered, or reached this location by traveling down a street that is not a designated truck route like Carlton Avenue or Dean Street. Hunt, not McKissack, is the supervising contractor for the arena work.
Click on the link to see the photographic and video backup for these observations.
Posted by steve at August 14, 2011 10:18 PM