Saturday, February 21, 2015
Pelham Parkway project continues to be a disaster
From NBC:
A rule change to construction standards on city roadways has residents of one of Bronx community concerned that fire trucks won't be able to help them in an emergency.
The city Department of Transportation changed its rules regarding fire truck access around the same time construction began on a $40 million road project that included the narrowing of a Bronx street, the I-Team has learned.
Home video recorded by a neighbor shows an FDNY fire truck having difficulty turning onto Pelham Parkway South, one of the newly redesigned roads, during a joint FDNY and DOT test to determine if emergency vehicles could negotiate turns on and off of the street.
In 2009, the city Department of Design and Construction submitted a final design for the Pelham Parkway reconstruction project. In the summer of 2010, construction began on the new, narrower, Pelham Parkway South. That same summer, the DOT amended its Street Design Manual.
The manual originally read, “…all street designs must meet FDNY, other emergency vehicle, and sanitation vehicle access needs.”
But on July 9, 2010 the guidelines were changed to read, “…all street designs must consider FDNY, other emergency vehicle, and sanitation vehicle access needs.” The difference between "must meet" and "must consider" emergency vehicles means a lot to those who live and work on Pelham Parkway South.
You can read previous stories about this here. $40M of our tax money for this...
6 comments:
Please don't tell the 40 mil was just for the truck review...
I don't see a grammatical distinction between "must meet" and "must consider". The distinction is not between "meet" and "consider". The operative word is "must". It indicates the imperative mood. Something "must" be done. Seems like the street people are at fault here.
must shcmust,looks like legislators are using semantics to write laws for seedy construction companies to exploit and profit from
semantics schemantics.these bastards better hope nothing goes on fire in pelham in the near future.Or at all.
The 40 million was for a once every few decades road rebuild.. George, the street was wide enough for the fire trucks to get through. A couple neighbors were pissed that parking would have to be eliminated for them to make their turns, that's all it's about.
The street is plenty wide, the problem is the parking at the intersection. There needs to be no cars parked within ~20 ft of the intersection. The cars are parked too close to the intersection making the turns harder for large vehicles, and creating blind spots for drivers who can't see oncoming cross traffic.
There should never be any parking allowed within 20' of any Intersection for many obvious reasons, turning, visibility, etc. The Fire Department has said the street is fine as long as s for their vehicles to maneuver.
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