From NY1:The city Department of Transportation is looking to change a traffic pattern in Maspeth, so that trucks can no longer take shortcuts to Brooklyn along Grand and Flushing Avenues near the Long Island Expressway and put residents' lives in danger.
“Things don’t happen overnight even though we want them to happen overnight. And I can understand the frustration,” said Congress Member Joseph Crowley (D-Queens/Bronx).
Overnight? It's been 10 freaking years! Here's some background from the Times Newsweekly...
As previously reported in this paper, the bypass plan was formed in 2000 through the input of the late [Frank] Principe, the former chairperson of Board 5, and [Tony] Nunziato. In 2005, then-DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall agreed in principle with local civic leaders to the idea, and the bypass was also suggested in a citywide truck route study completed in 2007.
9 comments:
Awww I dont know why people are upset about this.
They took a year and a half to put some bushes up at the traffic triangle at the Flushing Ave - Grand Ave split, screwed up traffic signals so people dont know when they can cross, and bc of it, a ridiculous amount of traffic backs up at Flushing and Fresh Pond.
Community activists have been vocal but not heard. NYC govt at work.
Who will eforce the new rules?
Maspeth Mom says...
No one will enforce the rules -
basically just a bunch of paper pushing garbage. Every morning on my block at least five 18 wheelers roll down. It would be a an easy catch for a cop to ticket them.
They hit parked cars and tear down phone lines. So,sick of it.
Crowley lives in Virginia and should stay there. He has no clue what goes on in his district. The truck plan is great and should have been in place a long time ago, but bear in mind, he or his democratic pals had nothing to do with it. The people in Maspeth and Middle Village started this plan years ago with Mr. Principe and ran with it.
Why is Crowley even in the discussion? When did local traffic conditions become a Federal matter? It's a few blocks at the "southern border" of CD 7.
Neighborhood activists worked for this and then Joe Crowley and Marge Markey swooped in to claim credit at a recent press conference. Must be an election year!
http://queenscourier.com/articles/2010/10/02/news/top_stories/doc4ca263059f9a0420604358.txt
Seems like if you have a delivery or origin in brooklyn or queens you are considered local, not thru. I doubt this will change much as enforcement will be very difficult if many trucks are still passing through legally. Also, the current 2010 NYC truck route map will still show this route as a thru route. Seems like a viable defense in traffic court.
Three machine hacks at this press conference...
Clueless Joe Crowley, clubhouse party boss, inarticulate buffoon with no talent and no visibility in Washington; under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for taking big corporate money before a key vote on Wall Street restructuring.
Margaret Markey, party hack, good at Albany seat warming; over a decade of consistency at doing nothing; people in her district don't even know what she looks like.
Elizabeth Crowley, Clueless Joe's cousin, who is dumber than a box of rocks. Can't even pronounce simple words or comprehend basic issues. A huge embarrassment even to her supporters, particularly when she opens her mouth.
All these cronies need to be voted out and fast. They are the reason that the quality of life is being decimated in Queens. The Democratic Machine is doing everything to get rid of the middle class, so that the illegals don't have a vote and the machine can stay in power forever. It's called job security for the Democrats.
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