The Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a series of interactive workshops, with two in Queens, on the Jamaica Bay Greenway implementation plan beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 30, it was announced.
The Greenway is a proposed 28-mile biking and walking path with sections already active in parts of Brooklyn, Howard Beach and Broad Channel.
Eleven miles of the Greenway are already complete and visited by more than 100,000 people each year, according to the DOT.
The first workshop is scheduled for the end of the month and will be held in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Following meetings will be held Oct. 7 in Howard Beach at the Old Mill Yacht Club, and Oct. 16 in Broad Channel at Scholars Academy. Both are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
These workshops will be the second in a series of three held by transportation officials to hear from residents on the plan. At the meetings, residents will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear ideas on the Greenway from their neighbors.
The Greenway, when complete, is envisioned as a continuous recreation loop that roughly follows the Belt Parkway through many parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
7 comments:
The roads there are always crowded. How about adding lanes which unlike bike crap will actually be useful.
"Eleven miles of the Greenway are already complete and visited by more than 100,000 people each year, according to the DOT."
I use The Broad Channel Component almost daily and can honestly say I've Never seen a bicyclist on Cross Bay, ever... DOT is fulla shit
You get a lot of cyclists using those paths on the weekends anon. The other bridge from Brooklyn is more popular though because broad channel is a mess to bike on once the greenway ends. There are speeding cars and trucks blocking half the bike lane on broad channel.
I've used both approaches, there are some cyclists on the Brooklyn side, but still 100,000 is a real over estimate. THe DOT is still full of it...
100k for the year? A thousand on Saturdays and sundays going to or from the beach in the summer gets you a quarter of the way there. Unless you spend the whole day there youd have a hard time knowing whether or not you have that many people. They might count those heading just to plum beach too.
They have counters for bikes, just like cars. That plus having people stand around counting on what is expected to be a typical day. Why do you think it is wrong?
Off course broad channel is empty. There is no path there and the drivers are maniacs speeding through heading to the beach.
"A thousand on Saturdays and sundays going to or from the beach in the summer gets you a quarter of the way there."
There aren't a thousand people going to the beach via bike. They take buses, trains or drive. I have spent many days fishing off the bridge and there are next to no cyclists, even in the summer.
You fish off of cross bay. Gil Hodges has a lot more cyclists because they come from Brooklyn.
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