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October 25, 2011
Don't Walk: Crossing Signal Obscured at Atlantic Yards
Construction netting latest hazard for pedestrians at busy intersection.
Park Slope Patch
by Paul Leonard and Amy Sara Clark
Pedestrians crossing Atlantic Avenue southbound at Flatbush Avenue are already used to dealing with cars, trucks and construction equipment streaming past one of Brooklyn's busiest thoroughfares.
Now they have to deal with yet another obstacle: black construction netting obscuring a crossing signal at the notoriously tricky intersection.
That means southbound pedestrians such as Crown Heights resident Sandra Marshall crossing Atlantic Avenue at Flatbush were essentially "walking blind"—with the signal at the southeast corner of the intersection either completely or partially covered by the top portion of a construction barrier installed by workers at the quickly-rising Barclays Center site.
"It makes you feel like you have a death wish trying to cross here," Marshall said. "I just try to run as fast as I can."
Posted by eric at October 25, 2011 12:04 PM