...Queens Plaza's star has faded, tarnished by traffic snarls and the seedy feeling shrouding its once-bustling sidewalks. In an effort to revive the plaza's former polish and prestige, the city is moving forward with a $43 million project to rebuild the plaza and make it safer.The project went out to bid last week. It will overhaul the plaza's street grid, a portal through which roughly 70,000 motorists pass each day.
Plans call for redesigned intersections and sidewalks, with medians to improve traffic circulation and to make it easier for pedestrians to cross the plaza. It also envisions a 1.5-acre park carved out of underutilized parking lots.In addition, a protected bike lane will link the bridge over Sunnyside Yards to the bridge's bike path, where daily ridership doubled from 546 to 1,292 between 2000 and 2007, city data shows.
$43M Queens Plaza face-lift hits the fast lane
3 comments:
The worst intersection in the country possibly.Why the hell cant this city install lights that count down the time a person has to cross and the same number count with cars stopping at the lights.Guessing the busy pickup or big car actually stops for the light.Some red lights are pretty small under the plaza intersection.
Keep your park, just make the intersection sane and im sure the metal structure holding the Queensboro train station (7 and N W) and parts of the on ramp for cars is due for new steel some day real soon.Tear down a few of those ugly new condos and make a nice smog park for the various neighbors??
THE BIG THING IS THE BIKE LANES THEY WANT TO INSTALL!
TRAFFIC PROBLEMS? LIGHTS NOT GOOD? PEDESTRIANS AT RISK?
GET REAL. NOT IMPORTANT!!
Shut the hell up 2 comment.I dont want to bike on queens blvd.Knee jerk reaction because 3\4 of bike riders dont want to take that large blvd.If you walk across the lights change real fast and the cars go anyways.Its not about bikes and developement, you are wrong heart attack man.
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