Transit advocates were elated with the decision, as the lane helps accomplish the city’s goal of 25 percent faster bus speeds by the year 2020. This is a very narrow rational plan to speed up traffic.”Įsposito took a trip out of the courtroom last week, touring the site of the bus lane. The bus lane will speed up traffic on that street,” Esposito said, according to Streetsblog. The bus lane, which was proposed back in April as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Better Buses Action Plan, was the subject of a suit filed by the Fresh Pond Road Coalition of Middle Village Wednesday, which said that the new bus lane removes vital parking from the area and acts as a detriment to local businesses. Everyone's guilty of it, including myself," Bragg said. "The easiest solution is just using what they did to narrow down Parsons.The city’s Department of Transportation got a major victory on Monday as Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Esposito dismissed a lawsuit launched in response to the agency’s construction of a bus lane through Fresh Pond Road. "People just drive too fast on Livingston.
He is a co-owner of a two-story building he is rehabbing at Miller and East Livingston avenues, and a car ran into it this past summer. East Livingston Avenue now is two lanes eastbound and westbound, with some left-turn lanes.Īndrew Bragg would like to see the Parsons Avenue idea duplicated on East Livingston. The city did that on Parsons Avenue on the South Side, with traffic now traveling on one lane northbound and one southbound with a middle turn lane. In December, Reynaldo Stargell, administrator of the city's traffic management division, told The Dispatch that reducing the number of lanes can reduce speeds. She said there's no reason why that stretch of East Livingston couldn't look like East Main Street in Bexley someday.īut Dillard said the main priority is safety. "It would be nice to have uniformity and cohesiveness," Green said.ĭanielle Dillard, president of the Livingston Avenue Area Commission, also would like to see the city beautify Livingston to help the neighborhood attract business. Green also would like to see the city beautify the stretch so it resembles what East Livingston looks like along the northern border of German Village and near Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Residents suggest planting trees, reducing traffic lanes, adding bike lanes along Livingston Avenue
"I’m very concerned about Kelton and Livingston specifically," Green said. There was minimal damage to the building and no one was hurt inside, Dorcas Taylor Jones, a library spokeswoman, said in an email.
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The driver of one car swerved to avoid being hit and struck the side of the library branch. In May 2021, there was a traffic incident at Kelton and East Livingston involving a school bus and two cars. The Driving Park branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library sits on the northwest corner, and a charter school, Capital Collegiate Preparatory Academy, is just north of the intersection. Stacee Green, vice president of the Driving Park Civic Association, said the city needs to take steps to make the intersection of Kelton and East Livingston safer.
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