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July 24, 2012
Controversial Atlantic Avenue “Coffins” Now Being Removed in Brooklyn
Transportation Nation
by Andrea Bernstein
Surely this didn't waste too much money...
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The imposing concrete bollards surrounding Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal station are coming down.
The so-called “coffins” appeared without warning in 2010, when the new terminal was opened. “More Extreme Than NYPD Counterterror Guidelines” mocked a Streetsblog headline. Urban planners decried the bollards as pedestrian-unfriendly and a backwards model of city design.
The Long Island Rail Road and nine subway lines stop at the Atlantic Terminal station, which will serve the new Barclays Center arena when it opens in September.
New York’s MTA cited unspecified security concerns in installing what the Brooklyn Paper called “sarcophagi.”
Workers there say the bollards will be replaced with “something else,” but there’s no word yet from the MTA on what’s coming.
NoLandGrab: Actually, WE were the first to call the massive bollards sarcophagi, when we broke the story in early December, 2009.
Photo: Andrea Bernstein/WNYC
Posted by eric at July 24, 2012 11:28 AM