Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Oct. 22 that the city would undertake a number of initiatives to ease traffic congestion in busy thoroughfares across the five boroughs.
As part of the five-point plan, the city will start a pilot program to test curb access restriction starting in January 2018. The commercial corridor on Roosevelt Avenue from Broadway to 108th Street in Jackson Heights and Corona was chosen as one of three areas to participate.
For six months, curbside loading will be banned on both sides of the street on the pilot corridor during peak hours from 7 a.m. through 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. through 7 p.m.
Passengers will still be able to be picked up and dropped off in the area and deliveries will be allowed in off-street loading docks.
In downtown Flushing, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) will reconstruct Main Street and expand sidewalks along the thoroughfare. The Department of Transportation (DOT) will also implement “Flushing in Motion,” a signal system similar to one that was installed in Midtown. Both projects will be completed by the end of 2017.
DOT is currently working on a congestion action plan for downtown Jamaica in addition to a larger Jamaica transportation study, which will be released in 2018. The plan will include recommendations for street redesign, signal timing changes, one-way street conversions and curb regulation changes to reduce congestion.
17 comments:
Take out the fucking bike lanes you moron.
Start urban planning and stop catering to REBNY.
Overbuilding in Flushing caused this mess, where one family houses used to be the norm now you have 80 unit apartment buildings.
What did you expect you degenerate?
What the hell happened to NYC over the last 20 years? you encourage people to move to the city, you don't have the housing, the schooling, the roads, the subways, the infrastructure to accommodate all these people..glad I left when I did. I cashed out and live in a area that cost 1/2 of what I paid with 1/2 less people and and 2 times the house that I would have living in filthy, ugly, over crowded Queens. good luck with all that.
Taking out bike lanes doesn't make traffic go faster. The road is the same.
This sounds like a sensible idea.
Parking should also not be allowed on main streets during rush hour.
31st St, Queens Blvd, Astoria Blvd....
Yeah, it had nothing to do with jobs or good Universities. Someone just said "move to NYC" and everyone did.
>>you encourage people to move to the city,
Do these dip shits just sit around a room all day trying to think up ways to hurt small businesses?
So ultimately, kissing developers slimy asses is what's causing the traffic/overcrowding in Queens? Yeah I'll go along with that. That plus letting ourselves be dictated to by some very vocal minorities (Seriously how many people actually use bike lanes and belong to Transportation Alternatives and the Other special interest groups?) End lobbying at city hall by these groups and then you'l see real substantive change in NYC... But it's probably too late...
What language are you going to put the 'No Loading or Unloading' signs in?
Widening sidewalks means less room for cars. No standing means don't become old or disabled and do all your shopping and doctors visits in Nassau
This overcrowding is obviously a result of DeDumDum's bending over backwards to his developer masters, who would see every single blade of grass paved over if they could. There's only so many bodies you can fit in a given space. Because of their greed, and because of DeDumDum and Cuomo's turning NYC and NYS into sanctuary cities, we are inundated with way too many people for a given space. This overwhelms roads, classroom space, water supplies, the electrical grid--you name it. So EVERYONE has to be miserable so a few people can make megabucks. Makes a lot of sense, right?
Taking out bike lanes doesn't make traffic go faster. The road is the same.
Now how is that?
If they take one lane for a bike lane, how will it be the same?
Man, you really can't fix stupid.
Imagine this people, they talk about easing traffic congestion, but what about the infrastructure that is being stretched to the max due to overcrowding?
This is a very bad situation that will get a lot worse soon.
What language are you going to put the 'No Loading or Unloading' signs in?
they will use iphone icons.
"DOT is currently working on a congestion action plan for downtown Jamaica in addition to a larger Jamaica transportation study, which will be released in 2018."
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So one idiotic waste of money plan was not enough (like you needed one to begin with), so have another larger more expensive idiotic plan to tell you shit we already know and several had already commented on.
You cannot keep jamming as many people you can on every fucking inch of space, not matter how much you fix the infrastructure. A large balloon will still burst if you overload it with water.
A one family home torn down to put up a monstrous apartment building in already overcrowded neighborhoods just make the situation even worse, that is common sense 101.
Corrupt elected officials, a predatory REBNY, corrupt agencies such as DOT & DOB, just add another layer of bullshit.
There I have done your fucking study for you at no cost to the tax payers.
Go back to urban planning 101 for fuck sake.
>In downtown Flushing, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) will reconstruct Main Street and expand sidewalks along the thoroughfare.
Removing a lane of traffic for wider sidewalks will make car traffic worse, not better. Someone please explain this logic!
Wider sidewalks? So more room to discard grease and food waste, and more room to sell crap?
Count me in!!!
No one in government or media dare to mention how the mostly empty bike lanes throughout Queens are significantly contributing to congestion. God forbid they oppose the bike lanes. Wide thoroughfares with right and left turning lanes have been reduced to single lane roads, where traffic backs up waiting for someone to make a turn, and delivery trucks block traffic lanes as they are kept from approaching the curb because of bike lane barriers! So, the proposed solution to congestion is to punish the drivers with new tolls and delivery restrictions, which the consumer will end up paying for. It's time to move away from this s**t hole!
Someone please explain this logic!
They can't. Is like treating alcholism with more beer.
Population in downtown Flushing was at 28000/square mile and that's from 2 years ago.
I recently witnessed a large apt building being built with temporary electrical lines from ConEd. They had run out of power hookups.
Imagine sewer, water plus the building will have a large underground garage that opens up to a super congested street.
No standing means don't become old or disabled and do all your shopping and doctors visits in Nassau
Can't people with handicapped parking permits leave their cars anywhere, including next to fire hydrants? And isn't it true that tow trucks will not tow a vehicle if a passenger is inside? So even if a traffic agent writes a ticket, how do they clear the lanes?
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