Support a Slow Zone for Prospect Heights

Another waste of time band aid. The center is still under construction and blamed for something that is happening now.

Classon Ave from Empire to Atlantic has more than a half dozen schools with large student bodies. Classon is just one of the raceways in the area. Street signs,parked cars,emergency call boxes to name a few have been crushed by speeding drivers. School buses w the stop sign deployed are ignored daily as drivers drag race to the next stop sign or light on their way across the area.

Drivers often take full advantage of the yellow light condition and speed thru rather than anticipate the upcoming red signal. Franklin, Bedford,Washington and Vanderbilt not much better.

The police need to pretend traffic safety is important to drivers and non drivers alike. Get some officers doing speed monitoring asap. Have foot patrol officers stop people w bad registration and no seat belts, drinking beer and smoking blunts on Franklin. STOP people w children standing on the front seat and not properly restrained.

Great place to start is Eastern Parkway at Classon. The pavement is uneven as Classon crosses EP so cars and trucks of all kinds catch air as they fly past the school for the deaf. The cars that generating the most sparks can easily be spotted and stopped at Lincoln. If they make it to St.Johns you can stop them in front of the location of a run over street pole. If they are really jammin' and make it to Sterling you can pull them over at the intersection of funeral home and grade school, also the site of a pole hit by a speeder. If they make it to Park where the grade school and playground let out on to the street you can look over at the nursing home where the FDNY/NYPD emergency call box was run over a few weeks ago.

We don't need another task force but just any law enforcement of the speed limits and traffic signals already in place. If the police won't do shit, maybe DOT can install some oil pan, front end ripping off speed bumps to remind drivers that the traffic laws are not a suggestion. I used to fume when the Jewish school bus drivers would position the bus to block traffic while loading and unloading,after years of local traffic observation it seems a good practice

The police need to pretend traffic safety is important to drivers and non drivers alike.

THIS.

The NYPD still doesn't take traffic safety seriously enough, even though hundreds of people die each year in auto accidents in the city.

Our society and our city is evolving beyond a car-centric way of thinking about street layouts and safety, but it's happening at a glacial pace.

The NYPD still doesn't take traffic safety seriously enough, even though hundreds of people die each year in auto accidents in the city.

Agreed. They don't take it seriously _at all_.

The enforcement methods for moving violations generally consist of checkpoints and targeted "enforcement weekends", instead of consistently reduced tolerance for those infractions which most endanger public safety:

1) disobeying traffic signals

2) speeding

3) double-parking

Sounds like a great idea, as there is very little reason to allow speeding on our residential streets and it would definitely make it safer for everyone. I do have a problem with speed-bumps, though. They're bad for the environment (until we all have hybrids, I guess), and we have enough idling and stopping and starting spewing fumes already. Without more cops enforcing the rules though, they could reduce the speed limit to zero and it wouldn't make a difference.

Any change in velocity is wasteful. Speed bumps are also hard on suspensions and chassis and decrease the mean time between failures of these and associated components. Moreover, the truly flagrant violators sail over them as if they did not exist.

There are other, better traffic calming solutions, such as zig-zags, chicanes, and speed cameras...

Grid lock is also very effective at slowing cars down. Cars rarely speed on Canal St in Manhattan.

Making the entire area a slow zone would mean cars travel at a consistent speed throughout the zone, which would address some of the full efficiency concerns.

I'd be very surprised if this were the outcome. Only enforcement would make this happen and I can't see the few cops in the 77th deciding they want to enforce speed restrictions when there are so many people out there waiting to be stopped and frisked.

Signed. Problems or not, it's still better than nothing. I hope you can add Eastern Parkway to the slow zone as well.

extend it east to franklin and you have my signature.

Oct 14, 2013:

Prospect Heights is among 15 neighborhoods to receive a Slow Zone.

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/329-13/mayor-bloomberg-commissioner-sadik-khan-citywide-expansion-neighborhood-slow-zones-to/

Here is the map of what the neighborhood do-gooders requested:

http://www.phndc.org/content/phndc-again-submit-application-prospect-heights-neighborhood-slow-zone

...the area they RECEIVED could be slightly different.

There are some around. You likely just want more.

Talk to Albany: http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/topic/a-camera-to-catch-speeders-at-ep-and-bedford

I love the speed bump they installed on our street some years ago.

We now have so many children in our neighborhood, and it has greatly reduced the speed of vehicles on Park Place.

I hope they install another one, as the city had initially approved.

And if the drivers don't slow down, I can enjoy watching them trash their cars as they try to speed down the block.

newguy88 said:

Sadly, thats a whole nother beast.

Oh, I know. I'll take what I can get, but, man, I hate having the light change and then two--sometime three--more cars blast through the intersection.