DOT reveals plans for GAP reconfiguration (version 6.1?)

whynot_31

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2010/05/grand_army_plaz_1.php

idlewild

It looks like traffic lanes going into the park were taken out.

aryeh211lion

interesting...

sweet tea

Idlewild wrote: It looks like traffic lanes going into the park were taken out.

does it? i'm having trouble understanding the diagram for the south part of the plaza (2nd diagram). at first i thought the first one was the park end, but it's not.

looks to me like my biggest pet peeve remains -- that absurdly tiny stepping stone where i and a million other park/green market goers get caught between the badly timed lights when crossing from the library to the park. that is a massive accident waiting to happen, imho. one truck goes slightly off course, 30 people mowed down. easy.

jeffrey

Yeah. As someone that frequently drives through there, I find it pretty silly that they time that light for pedestrians to get to the island to find their next hop to the library turning green for cars.

And in the afternoons, the green for Northbound cars alongside the library is *really* short (seems like 5 seconds? maybe 10 at most), so cars are eager to go-go-go after having been lined up down the park stretch of Flatbush, slowly creeping forward awaiting many many many short green / lonnnnnng red cycles.

Depending on the day, it might easily add 5 or 10 minutes on average to a drive that would otherwise be 30 seconds through there.

So it's nuts to lead pedestrians right into a changing light full of drivers that feel delayed and eager to get the hell outta there.

gapco

Stick to the northern edge: if you are coming from PH, take the crosswalks by the new bike lane toward the arch, and then cross either to that bollarded island, or straight to the park, or continue across to Union St.

There are more crossings, but the timing actually works out better than getting stranded on the bollarded island in the middle of Flatbush.

ANd this plan will make the crosswalks and islands around Union St/PPW safer.

whynot_31

They have now completed much of the work.

Click thru for pictures

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2011/10/gap-streetscape-improvements-lookin-good/#disqus_thread