Comments on: One Way Jay Street Proposal For Two Way

By: loose stool

loose stool — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:40:26 +0000

“Has traffic become so bad in this neighborhood that we need to create two-way streets?”
Ah, it’s the other way around. When traffic gets bad they make 2 way streets one way.

By: Dreidel Hustler

Dreidel Hustler — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:34:58 +0000

Has traffic become so bad in this neighborhood that we need to create two-way streets? People, this place is a ghost town compared to other areas. This isn’t Bedford Ave or Smith St.

Leave well enough alone.

By: david is very short thats why

david is very short thats why — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:23:05 +0000

Here’s what we need: speed bumps the entire length of Front, eliminate the city bus making 60 mile an hour sidewalk sweeping turns from Front onto Main, and establish a traffic light at Washington and Front.

By: M

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:47:23 +0000

They should consider putting a stop sign on Front St. at the intersection with Pearl St. Currently, only the traffic on Pearl crossing Front has a stop sign. Due to the cars parked on Front it is difficult for cars on Pearl to see if traffic is coming on Front before crossing the intersection, and therefore the cars are forced to inch out into the intersection. It seems like I see at least one near miss on a wreck at this intersection every day.

By: loose stool

loose stool — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:24:58 +0000

“the many people who ride in and out of Dumbo on bikes.”, Hardly. Get rid of the bike lanes all together. Riding bikes to work is the musings of this antique mayor who has lost all his testosterone. It is the most unreliable form of transportation there is. As soon as it rains these clowns are pushing their fixed geared bikes on the train with their “share the road” stickers staring me in the face. There are some days I could count the number of bikes passing in an hour on my pecker!

By: c

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:07:01 +0000

they might as well put in a traffic light at the intersection of jay & york, you can get stuck for over 5 minutes waiting for a whole train load of people to cross the street if you get to the intersection just after an F train has come into the York st stop…

By: epc

epc — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:27:51 +0000

Two way streets have been demonstrated to be slower at streetsblog.org.

Eliminate the parking on that block and you could keep the bike lane.

One concern I’d have is visibility from the left-turning traffic from Prospect onto Jay. A lot of cars just sort of glide through that intersection ignoring the light and turn left or right (to go to the BQE)

By: thinksmart

thinksmart — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:10:09 +0000

Increase car traffic on pedestrian-heavy Jay street? Great idea. What’s more needed is a physically separated bike lane for the many people who ride in and out of Dumbo on bikes.