From the Times Ledger:Business owners on 40th Road in Flushing got their way Monday when the city Department of Transportation announced it will not be reversing traffic and rerouting buses to the narrow downtown street as part of its new traffic mitigation plan.
The plan, which the DOT’s Queens Borough Commissioner Maura McCarthy announced last week will be implemented at the beginning of July, is aimed at comprehensively addressing the downtown area’s traffic woes.
Originally slated to make traffic on Main Street one-way in addition to other changes, the blueprint is now being billed as a “modified two-way” plan in which turns will be restricted or barred entirely onto and from some of the most heavily trafficked streets.
One change in the proposal will make it illegal for buses to turn from Main Street onto Roosevelt Avenue. In the plan revealed this past February, traffic would have been reversed on 40th Road, allowing buses to use the short stretch as a detour.
But the street’s many merchants howled at the plan, saying the estimated 40 buses an hour the proposal would bring to the block at peak times would cripple their businesses by blocking on-street parking, creating unsafe situations for drivers as well as pedestrians and causing intense traffic jams.
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It's Sunday morning. Thanks for reminding me to watch the 3 stooges!
I've said before numerous times: Flushing needs a transit hub similar to Jamaica Center, where all the bus routes can converge in one place, making for easier transfers.
Ladies & gents...it's "mitigation mambo" time once again...brought to you all by the DOT!
Let's forget this smoke & mirrors...song and dance show being is provided for your entertainment.
No matter how traffic will be mitigated, adjusted or re-routed, Flushing is a continually growing traffic flow nightmare.
But of course Wellington Chen & Michael Meyers will be assuring us that "Flushing Commons" won't significantly affect Flushing's transportation woes.
Thank you EDC/TDC (and CB 7) for making things worse by promoting fast paced over development before first providing the sorely needed infrastructure improvements that Flushing needed years ago!
The real "star" of the show is Peter Koo...current 1 term councilman.
Is he clueless or just on drugs...that millionaire "Starside Drugs" chain owner (who has former councilman/convicted rapist Dennis P. Gallagher running the show from behind the curtainf or him)?
Then again...somebody has got to speak for Koo (thanks for translating James).
Nobody can ever understand a word he's saying.
It's time for a coupe to unseat Koo!
Dump Halloran too...that Libertarian loony!
He supported Koo twice regarding Flushing Commons.
Stay in your district Dan & mind your own business!
I should have voted for Kim!
GREAT, ONCE AGAIN FRUSHING GETS ATTENTION WHEN WHITESTONE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF CB7 GET IGNORED. LET US NOT FORGET THE SERIOUS TRAFFIC PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE MALBA GARDENS SECTION OF WHITESTONE, 26TH AVENUE IN BAYSIDE, CLEARVIEW AND SO MANY MORE IN OUR AREA.
Sounds like we need congestion pricing and higher parking rates in Flushing.
So the Draft EIS should be reworked, right? Wasn't it based on a one-way Main/Union streets?!?!
This is ridiculous. Shouldn't there be a re-review/publication?!
So the Draft EIS should be reworked, right? Wasn't it based on a one-way Main/Union streets?!?!
This is ridiculous. Shouldn't there be a re-review/publication?!
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Agreed! I think we should all hand our wallets over to Bloomtard and the tweeders now. Why wait til the last minute?
aaand... once again, a few people make a stink about minor inconveniences and vastly overestimate the number of customers who arrive by car, ensuring that buses will continue to crawl and pedestrians will continue to be crushed.
Wow it's the infamous Cap'n Transit who thinks he knows everything about everyone in the borough, accuses people of racism if they complain about commuter vans driving like maniacs through their neighborhoods when they aren't supposed to! Now he knows Flushing like the back of his hand. Main Street should not be one way. That's why it's fucking called MAIN STREET. Buses will crawl no matter what in that area. Why? There are too many damn tall buildings with too many people, just like all the tweeders wanted it. The bike folks LOVE that as well: "It's green!"
Well, wait until Willets Point, the Police Academy, Flushing Commons, SkyView Parc, and the College Point Blvd waterfront are all built. When you're breathing in diesel fumes and stuck in gridlock 24/7, you won't be thinking the bikeriding is that cool anymore.
Make the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Ave a pedestrian plaza like Times Square.
Make the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Ave a pedestrian plaza like Times Square.
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Could you please repeat that? It was hard to understand you with the echo produced by having your head up your butt.
So the Draft EIS should be reworked, right? Wasn't it based on a one-way Main/Union streets?!?!
This is ridiculous. Shouldn't there be a re-review/publication?!
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Agreed! I think we should all hand our wallets over to Bloomtard and the tweeders now. Why wait til the last minute?
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No, what I meant was that if the DEIS had to be re-worked, then this project might be indefinitely delayed, dumb shit, so that it might be called off.
What I find most amusing about QC is how one poster doesn't make a point clearly and gets called out and then finds it necessary to defend him/herself...all in the name of anonimity. And when the first poster gets criticized, he/she must use profane language in their defense. Why doesn't the original poster make the point clear in the first place? Sheesh.
Actually, I found the original point to be quite clear. You don't forgo redoing an EIS when the plan changes just because it costs money.
Sorry QC but there was an implication in the comment that made it look like more wasted money would go into the pockets of Bloomturd's cronies for another useless study. The poster's additional comment cleared up the concerns. I just want to see this get done right and not give additional tax money to the city hall clowns. I hope that you can respectfully understand my perspective. After all, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the evil doers these days.
Sorry, fail to see the implication. We've been saying for weeks that when plans change dramatically, there needs to be a new EIS.
EIS? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING? CB 7 AKA, KELTY,CHUCK, BITTERMAN DO NOT EVEN WANT NOR REQUIRES. LOOK AT THE OLD CYO PROPERTY IN WHITESTONE, AND THE "WHITESTONE JEWELS" PROJECT, NO EIS'S THERE. HECK MCCARTHY CANT LOCATE THEM AND KELTY AND CHUCK WELL THEY ARE CERTAIN IT WAS DONE AND THEY SAW IT, THEY JUST CANT COME UP WITH IT.
EIS, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, FUNNY.
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