Eyes on the Street: How About a Slow Zone for Prince Street?
Brooklyn Spoke's Doug Gordon tweeted this photo Wednesday morning. This crash happened at the intersection of Prince and Crosby in Soho, which gets a ton of foot traffic and sees some of the highest bike counts in the city. It's only random chance that someone didn't get hit.
One change that would help regulate drivers' speeds on Prince Street would be to re-time traffic signals to synch up with a more bike- and pedestrian-friendly 10-15 mph. In December, Manhattan Community Board 2 passed a resolution asking DOT to study "Green Wave" signal timing on Prince.
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