A group of residents has launched an online petition in opposition to the DOT’s recent installation of a new bike boulevard on 39th Avenue in Sunnyside.
The online petition, which was launched Saturday, seeks to reverse the DOT’s transformation of many portions of 39th Avenue and Barnett Avenue that have been converted into one-way streets. The DOT began making the changes to the avenues last month in order to create space to put down a protected bicycle lane on 39th Avenue.
The petition has garnered more than 500 signatures since it launched less than 72 hours ago on change.org.
The group that launched the petition, called Queens Streets For All, claims that the new designs are dangerous, confusing and were not thought through. They also say that the community was not properly involved in the process.
Their view is counter to the DOT and bike-safety advocates who say that the new layout makes the streets safer for all road users —whether they be motorists, cyclists or pedestrians. The advocates say the measures reduce the number of motorists using 39th Avenue as a through-street and that the changes help prevent speeding.
However, the petitioners argue that the changes are too complex, unnecessary and have instead made the roads less safe.
They are calling on the DOT to reverse the road changes immediately. The petition is addressed to the Mayor Bill de Blasio, the DOT Commissioner, Queens DOT Commissioner, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, State Sen. Mike Gianaris, Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, Community Board 2 and other officials.
“What we have is chaos,” the petition reads. “These short, previously unproblematic and two-way streets are now a mess. Whoever rushed the installation was not focusing on our safety.”
The group claims that the process to approve the plan was “rushed through” via online meetings with little community notice and insufficient input from residents.
The bike boulevard was approved by Community Board 2 in June by a vote of 21-11 during a Zoom board meeting.
33 comments:
This is where voting with your feet works the best
These bike lanes are so dumb and even more hazardous. They are more trouble than what they are worth.
I want a Queens Crap garden gnome.
We're living in an idiotcracy ! #BLUEANON
Just dress up in antifa garb, fly their flag and then protest. It's a winning strategy.
Shut up Sheeple … your streets are mine, all mine! Bwahahahaha
Thinking that a petition is going to move our utterly corrupt and/or imbecile ruling class is really very cute.
PS - Thank you Queens Crap for being one of the few websites left that allows true dissenting voices!
But Jimmy Van Bremen’s husband is the king of Transportation Alternatives. That’s why.
He got paid off in favors.
No one in the nabe wanted the bike lane on Skillman Avenue either. Van Bremmer promised a community meeting that there would be no bike lanes. The very next morning construction began on the Skillman Avenue bike lanes.
It’s all preparation for the NYC
public school that’s being built on Barnet Avenue & 48th Street.
Getting ready for school buses & parents SUV’s blocking the street, traffic snarls, delays.
School Buses?! What happened to
Children walking to school? Van Bremmer’s goal is to make Sunnyside as dangerous as the Woodside Houses. There hasn’t been a shooting or killing there. Peace & Quiet is racist.
Approved by Community Board should read approved by Communist Board.
What a joke. Look at Queens Boulevard also.
Bike lane maze!
The crazies and their scams.
I haven't voted in over 12 years and don't ever plan to again.
My life hasn't changed in the slightest other than I have low to no expectations and I save a couple of hours out of my day not going to any booths. I also get to save mental energy by not caring about politics at all.
SUV driver said...
Commie Bike Bastards all of them...
It may be dumb, but not nearly as dumb as more car lanes for over privileged communist car drivers.
It may be dumb, but not nearly as dumb as more car lanes for over privileged communist car drivers.
Idiotic Queens Crap more like.
@“ Children walking to school? ”
Too many morons driving cars makes it unsafe for kids walking to school.
Don’t blame JVB, blame the communist car drivers.
@“ We're living in an idiotcracy ! #BLUEANON”
Speak for yourself.
An online petition is an absolute waste of time!
I hate to say this - I agree with SherifaZion
Cathy Nolan got a cut of this action to seal the deal.
well now you all know what you have to do get rid of these politicians who are ruining the neighborhoods They really don't seem to care about the homeowners
Traffic each morning is tied up to Woodside to cross the Queensboro Bridge while scooters and bikes of the Woke Set whizz by blindsiding pedestrians trying to cross Northern or Queens Blvd.
No problem for Jimmy - like his useless friend Costa, the Boys in Albany will find a place for him on the taxpayer's dole.
Van Bramer's goal is to force out everyone who's not a gentrifier except the ones who have no choice and are exploited.
Plenty of streets around Maspeth that are used for nothing except car storage. May as well close them off and turn them into kids play areas.
"School Buses?! What happened toChildren walking to school?"
Milking the Tax Payers is a Olympic sport in NYC Goverment and they won the Gold Medal !
Plenty of streets around Maspeth that are used for nothing except car storage. May as well close them off and turn them into kids play areas.
How much do you pay in taxes for your bike fetish?
You expect other people to subsidize your fetishes?
Why not dress the kids first like little commie bolsheviks then let them play and salute the great leader, we just need to find out which one.
Speak for yourself.
Actually he is speaking about you!
Bingo!
It may be dumb, but not nearly as dumb as more car lanes for over privileged communist car drivers.
Says the true communist bolshevik bike fetishist.
You'll fit right in
https://en.reset.org/files/2011/07/27/498487973_68a0fbac4f_z.jpg
On yer bike!
@“ You expect other people to subsidize your fetishes? ”
No, the tax payer is already subsidizing your car fetish and free car storage.
@"well now you all know what you have to do get rid of these politicians who are ruining the neighborhoods They really don't seem to care about the homeowners"
Very true. If they did care, they would get rid of all the free car storage clogging up public space.
"Subsidizing your car fetish" Back on the meds boy.
No, the tax payer is already subsidizing your car fetish and free car storage.
Hardly.
Don't own a car, but there are extra taxes on gas (roads), tires (environment), registration, inspection, insurance, parking on the street is metered, residential areas pay taxes with parking included, garages, etc.
Who exactly is paying for your bike fetish?
How much do you pay in insurance, taxes, registration, inspection for your bike?
I tell you how much. Nothing.
You provoke, the only skill you got if we can call it a skill.
@"Don't own a car, but there are extra taxes on gas (roads), tires (environment), registration, inspection, insurance, parking on the street is metered, residential areas pay taxes with parking included, garages, etc"
Those fees cover diddly squat. Not as NYC property and labor rates. Insurance does not entitle free parking. If you really think so, then ask the insurance company to park on their lot. The inspection fee is a pittance and doesn't go to pay for infrastructure. Paying for tires doesn't entitle you to free car storage. Not to mention all the air pollution and the sickness that it causes. Who is paying for that?
Do you pay for all those people killed by cars? No.
@"Free car storage" I park my "cars" in my garage or on my driveway !
Where do you "park" your bike ? On my tree, my lamp pole, my fence, my store gate...
Are the bike racks free or did I or someone pay for them ? Get a life car hater nut!
@“ Where do you "park" your bike ? ”
I don’t have a bike!
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