From the NY Times:Cars have slammed into a beauty salon and shattered the windows of a Caribbean restaurant over the years, each after failing to navigate a turn at the base of the Queensboro Bridge where it unspools into Long Island City, Queens.
Now, not just the ramp — with a dangerous curve that city officials say has claimed three lives in recent years — but the entire outermost Queens-bound lane of the bridge will be shut down at night, when the emptied-out bridge may tempt drivers to speed.
The southernmost lane of the bridge, formally the
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Keep it closed during the day too. The ped/bikeway on the other side is uncomfortably crowded. Add this lane on the other side and that problem is solved.
Great, can pedestrians use this outer lane during night time hours?
Too little, too late.
Well thats the end of that. In a few weeks it will be turned into a bike lane
If this doesn't work, Penny, its jug handles in North Dekota.
And take your friend George with you. Understand they need lots of hotels up in those parts.
Typical D.O.T. Don't fix it close it...
Just went over the ramp last night. There are DOT illuminated signs in Manhattan at 59th Street and First Avenue and at the turn up onto the ramp. Interesting to see if there now will be accidents on THAT side of the bridge when motorists try to figure out there what's-now-up. The "fun" starts on Monday, 12/20, at 9PM.
Er, make that 12/30
... With a pedestrian plaza
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