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Re: New Prospect Park Road Redesign Paves the Way for Central Park

Chicken Underwear — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:51:41 -0000

That's the problem when the Department of Transportation oversees the roadways in parks where cars are not allowed. They still treat the roads like automobile things and not park things

Re: New Prospect Park Road Redesign Paves the Way for Central Park

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 07:16:40 -0000

The polls that hold them up a historic so they're not going to go away. But without spending much money at all they should change the signaling to something that would be promoting safety instead of confusion

Re: New Prospect Park Road Redesign Paves the Way for Central Park

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 07:15:27 -0000

I really hope the DOT sees the feedback they're getting and does not add this outside pedestrian line to prospect Park. For so many reasons it will reduce safety instead of increase it.

Cyclist will have to cross the pedestrian lane to enter the park

Using an unprotected pedestrian lane to impose traffic calming on cyclists is just dangerous

It will suddenly end at two different ends leaving pedestrians confused as to where to go

Pedestrians will be moving in two different directions on both sides of the roadway and will spontaneously cross the road. Proceeding directly into an active cycling lane.

Hopefully the DOT will do things to improve safety like changing what the traffic lights do. Without spending any money they can change the traffic lights to blinking red for those crossing the crosswalk and blinking yellow for those on the roadway. That would remind cyclists on the roadway that they are approaching a crosswalk and remind people crossing the roadway at the crosswalks that they are actually crossing an active bike lane

Re: Prospect Park Drive to be improved for cyclists and pedestrians

Chicken Underwear — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:31:24 -0000

For more than a decade I have been par of the roadway safety task force. A little subcommittee of the Prospect Park alliances community committee. Nobody who's on this committee now or was ever on the committee has ever suggested putting a pedestrian lane on the outside of the roadway. Especially not just halfway around the park. This would not improve safety and in fact would be dangerous. Every cyclist entering the park would have to cross this path where they would be too way pedestrian traffic.Also pedestrians on this path would look across the road and see other pedestrians and might randomly decide to cross the bike lane without looking.

We've been suggesting for years things that would improve safety. For example the traffic lights that are now randomly placed to control automobile traffic that doesn't exist Could do something helpful. They could be blinking yellow to everyone who's on the roadway reminding people that they're about to cross it crosswalk and they can be blinking red for everyone who's entering the crosswalk reminding people to look because they're crossing a bike lane.

michael ring

Re: BREAKING: ‘Citizen Reporting’ Bill Moves Forward, But Without the Bounty

Chicken Underwear — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:54:51 -0000

This would be great. I hope it will include issues with cars parking in bus stops

Re: Adams Administration’s Bus Lane Shortcomings Are Worse Than Originally Thought

Chicken Underwear — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:49:54 -0000

that is happening

Re: Adams Administration’s Bus Lane Shortcomings Are Worse Than Originally Thought

Chicken Underwear — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:49:12 -0000

It would be really great and simple to enforce the laws about people driving and stopping in bus lanes in bus stops. It would help improve traffic and generate some revenue at the same time

Re: Three Council Members Whose Districts Surround Prospect Park Demand the Return of E-Bikes

Chicken Underwear — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:42:12 -0000

E-bikes are no worse than the rest of the bikes when it comes to not following the rules in prospect Park.

Re: Three Council Members Whose Districts Surround Prospect Park Demand the Return of E-Bikes

Chicken Underwear — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:41:14 -0000

Pedestrians are actually the most dangerous element on the prospect Park roadway. I've spent a great deal of time watching the intersection at 9th Street. So many people just walking into right into the bike lane.

Re: Three Council Members Whose Districts Surround Prospect Park Demand the Return of E-Bikes

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:17:24 -0000

No, nobody should drive an ATV or an SUV or notary car around the park.But that's not what I'm responding to.

Above you said the park should be used for recreational purposes not a shortcut for delivery people.

What's the difference between a delivery person and someone coming home from school or work.

No one should be deciding why someone rides their bike through the park.

Re: Three Council Members Whose Districts Surround Prospect Park Demand the Return of E-Bikes

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:12:17 -0000

So do you think someone should stand at every entrance and ask people why they are entering the park?

Re: Three Council Members Whose Districts Surround Prospect Park Demand the Return of E-Bikes

Chicken Underwear — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:44:32 -0000

It's really a shame that it has come to this.I have beenpart of the roadway safety task force of the community committee of the Prospect Park Alliance for probably the last 12 years or so. It's been a very frustrating experience considering the parks department doesn't really Show any interest in letting us try to make the roadway safer for anybody.We rarely meet, and at times we've been told not to meet because the park's department was going to work with Central Park to come up with a plan.And then Central Park went ahead with its own plan.Then either the box department or the prospect park alliance announced a ban on e-bikes.Hey man that was uninforced and unenforceable.but strangely enough on one day it was enforced.If this all sounds very confusing. It is.

Now we are using proprietary budgetary funds to pay the people who used to be gridlock Sam to tell us what we should do.We've been waiting endlessly for their report. Also no one who's on the roadway see the task force seems to know how they're gathering their information.

i wrote this over 10 years ago https://whatyourdonotknowbe...

Re: Seriously, It’s Time for $2.75 Fares on Intracity Trips on LIRR and Metro-North

Chicken Underwear — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:17:34 -0000

It's really just been a way to keep the riffraff off the railroad.

Re: Central Park Conservancy Studying Ways to Make Park Loop Safer

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:32:51 -0000

The prospect Park alliance has been actively not doing anything to make the loop road safer for decades

Re: Streetsblog New York City

Chicken Underwear — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:28:21 -0000

It's kind of crazy that anyone who knows anyone who has a special parking permit can park wherever they want.Many people need to use those ramps or even the sidewalk that is continually blocked by entitled car owners

Re: Extra Unemployment Benefits Will Expire at the End of July

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:22:31 -0000

Re: DOT Expanding Loading Zones in Brooklyn After Car Parker Pushback

Chicken Underwear — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 04:01:20 -0000

But half the households in New York do not have cars . And all of the street is not a roadway

Re: MTA will pilot protective platform doors at 3 subway stations

Chicken Underwear — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:53:22 -0000

a solution in search of a problem ...." only [one -third] could physically accommodate protective doors. It estimated the total cost for the program at $7 billion." I wonder how many elevators could be installed for that amount of money so people with disabilities can actually go to work and be productive

Re: MTA sued over lack of discounted fares for Access-A-Ride users

Chicken Underwear — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:33:09 -0000

And I'm still digesting your insensitive comment her insurance status have to do with how much she pays to use New York cities transportation system?She's on a fixed income and rides 30 times a month Why shouldn't she get the same discount on the mass transit system that you do?

Re: MTA sued over lack of discounted fares for Access-A-Ride users

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:10:46 -0000

I use the wheelchair for about a year and I never considered myself wheelchair bound. I was not tied to it It was a tool not a sex toy

Re: MTA sued over lack of discounted fares for Access-A-Ride users

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:08:51 -0000

I actually don't even believe you because you don't know how much the subway fare is. And since Covid Subway's have gone through sanitation theater at the end of every trip so they're cleaner than ever

Nobody wants what you call door to door service.It is unreliable And often makes a convoluted trip all over the city before getting to your destination. If the MTA would just install elevators we wouldn't be complaining about this

Re: MTA sued over lack of discounted fares for Access-A-Ride users

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:21:29 -0000

Nearly all of NYC is near a subway station

Re: MTA sued over lack of discounted fares for Access-A-Ride users

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:27:22 -0000

When's the last time you got on the subway. It doesn't cost $2.70 . And it cost a lot less if you can get a weekly Metro card

Re: MTA sued over lack of discounted fares for Access-A-Ride users

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:26:33 -0000

Not a pleasure to wait up to half an hour for a ride that is still considered on time and be shuttled all over the city Like a package .

Re: MTA’s Lieber Tells Albany Legislators that Subway Bathrooms Will Stay Closed — And Jessica Ramos is Pissed!

Chicken Underwear — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:50:48 -0000

I can't figure out what a lack of bathrooms does to prevent covid