The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
TGIF!
After flooding shutting down parts of the BQE and a water spout off of Jamaica Bay, it seems apt that today is a gorgeous and comparatively cool late summer day — the perfect weather for enjoying NYC on foot or on two wheels.
For example, why not take a trip down to Red Hook on the Columbia St. Waterfront/Van Brunt St. bike path? It’s not like riding there on the bus will be any faster — especially not when more housing comes to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal site.
As Kevin Duggan reports this morning, officials have revealed plans for a “bus rapid transit” corridor on Van Brunt and Columbia streets to help filter out spillover traffic from the nearby Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that too often chokes the area’s streets today.
The city-run development agency had not previously answered how it planned to handle transportation to and from the site, which sits more than a mile from the nearest subway stop. Critics including local State Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon have cited the lack of clarity in transportation planning among the reasons for their opposition. A busway should put those concerns to bed.
Keep key lime pie on your mind as you dive into that news and more at the links below.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.