Dear Queenscrap,
New street light installed right in the middle of the narrow sidewalk on the north side of 41st Drive (right of the corner of 60th Street) in Woodside, Queens. A person with a wheelchair, baby stroller or a shopping cart has to go onto the street to go around the light pole. This installation is in direct violation of the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. There are many elderly residents that live on that block. When the installation was in progress a few neighbors told the DOT that the placement of the streetlight was illegal, the DOT workers told them to complain to the mayor. Keep up the good work on the website.
Thank you,
Joe from Woodside
Sorry, DOT is too worried about a small minority of people on 2 wheels to give a flying fig about the 100% of the population that are pedestrians.
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The street and lots layout for that section from 58th to 62nd Streets & Roosevelt Ave to Queens Blvd have always been a mystery to me. Both the streets and sidewalks are too narrow to start with. 41st Drive in particular is about the strangest street in Woodside. The street is so narrow, there is parking only on one side and a stopped car on the other side blocks all traffic. The block is one long row of attached houses with entrances set back 2 or 3 feet from the property line.
An ad hominem attack on the DOT. This problem has nothing to do with bicylists.
And there has never been a DOT in the history of NYC that has cared more for pedestrian safety, than the one run by Janette Sadik-Khan. Full stop.
Not sure why people think Janette Sadik-Khan is God. She is a joke when it comes to road maintenance and pedestrian safety anywhere outside of Manhattan. She can't even put bikes where they are needed, and the neighborhoods with shitty transportation that would actually benefit the most from bike lanes are the last ones to get them.
I can't wait until she leaves.
Planners built that area with the proximity to the trains in mind. Those homes are "commuters' specials" and are not realistic to today's practice of having 2 or 3 cars per house that need to park on the street.
Janette Sadik-Khan's greatest achievement has been getting tourists to walk in the middle of Park Ave.
She's way out of touch with the outer boroughs. She wants a bike lane on Eliot Avenue, of all places - where cars can barely pass each other and there's a sidewalk only on one side of the street.
There is no such thing as common sense with this city.
Lol.....this reminds me of the street I just saw by a park in fresh meadows. The street has a lane for drivers but then the bike lane takes up the whole side of the street! There is no room for cars and bikes to fit on that street together heading in the same direction. ...I had to laugh at it! I didn't know if I could drive on that road with a car.....but there was a stop sign on that side, so I assumed I could.
The movie Scrooged was filmed on this block.
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