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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed May 18 23:21:51 2016, in response to Re: Queens Public Transit Committee Rally, posted by terRAPIN station on Wed May 18 13:15:52 2016. When I said 12 mph, I was talking about an average speed, not a top speed. And the average speed on the portion of the roadway in question according to DOT is now only 12 mph a 38% speed reduction.These are slides 44 and 45 of the presentation shown here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/brt/downloads/pdf/brt-woodhaven-may2016.pdf. DOT made their proposal to ban left turns without studying any data. They proposed banning 26 left turn movements and now after studying the data reduced it to six which is still too many. Four at most could be banned. The fact that they now will no longer ban left turns at Metropolitan Avenue proves they realized they were in error. Their original proposal called for large trucks to instead make a 270 degree left turn from Cooper to Metropolitan instead. When I pointed out to them, that turn would be nearly impossible for a tractor trailer, they changed their proposal to instead turn barrow residential Trotting Course Lane into a two way. Then after that didn't fly with the community because it was just plain dumb, then they finally agreed to restore the left turn. And that video was not a momentary observation. I took a previous video last year that also showed high volumes of turning cars. How many videos would you need to convince you? We asked DOT for data on turning volumes but they never responded. |
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