This Speed Bump request has been submitted to the Department of Transportation. A study will be conducted at the proposed location to evaluate the warrant and feasibility of a speed bump installation. The study should be completed within 16 weeks and the Community Board 14 office will be notified of the findings. If the speed bump is approved, it will take additional time for markings and installation. Please refer to DOT Reference # BBC13-155 for further information. Thank you for your interest in public safety.

I imagine we should receive the result of the DOT's study imminently, BCB14?

Community Board 14 has contacted DOT with a request for the findings of this study (past-due/mid-June 2013.) We will post the results as soon as they are received. Feel free to contact us again if the information has not been posted within the month. Thank you.

The Department of Transportation now expects to have a traffic study of Campus Road completed by September 2013. They will alert us to their findings regarding the speed bump request. We will post any additional information here.

Great work, BCB14!
We look forward to seeing the results of the study in Sept!

As a nearby homeowner and parent of toddlers, I too am very curious to see the results of the DOTs study.

BCB14, do we have the results of the DOTs' traffic study yet?

A Status Update Request for BBC13-155 has been submitted to the Department of Transportation. We will post any results received here. Thank you for attention to this matter.

The Department of Transportation has denied this speed bump request due to the curve in the road, which prohibits speed bump installation. Thank you for your attention to community safety.

So the DOT has no solution to safeguarding the students and children that use the playground and college?
Does a child have to die first before this situation is rectified? Shameful.

We are awaiting information from DOT regarding any available options that may help reduce the speed of drivers near this playground. We will post additional information here when it is received. Thank you.

Thanks, BCB 14!

Low (20MPH?) speed signs are another usual solution in these situations—no?

We are awaiting information from DOT regarding any available options that may help reduce the speed of drivers near this playground. These options may include a reduced speed limit. We will post additional information here when it is received. Thank you.

We are awaiting information from DOT...

DOT Results are due mid-February. Please check back in early March if results have not yet been posted. Thank you, Brooklyn Community Board 14

Do we have any results from the DOT? It would be advantageous, with Spring arriving, to correct this situation before small children begin to use the playground?

Thank you for checking back. We submitted an update request several weeks ago and are awaiting a response from the Department of Transportation. We will post here as soon as a response is received.

We are still awaiting information from DOT...

Please see the response below:

The New York City Department of Transportation conducted an investigation to determine the need and feasibility of installing a speed hump at this location. Factors such as a physical inventory of the street, travel speed and vehicular volume were all taken into consideration in making our determination. Based upon our evaluation of the data collected it is our judgment that a speed hump is unwarranted at this time due to a curved roadway.

Yes, that was the DOT's initial evaluation.

(post of 10/24/13)>>The Department of Transportation denied this speed bump request due to the curve in the road<<

The request was:
Shouldn't/can reduced/low (20MPH?) speed signs be installed?
(post of 12/11/13)

The request for a reduced speed limit signage has been submitted to DOT. Will keep you updated on the status of it. Thank you.

We are awaiting information from DOT, regarding request for a reduced speed limit signage...

We are awaiting information from DOT, regarding request for a reduced speed limit signage...

It would be wonderful to see the new 'Vision Zero' legislation have a bearing on this dangerous stretch of road (by a college AND a playground).

We are awaiting information from DOT, regarding request for a reduced speed limit signage...

The Community Board is also waiting for a response to the reduced speed limit request submitted to DOT. We submitted another status request and will post the result here as soon as it is received. Thank you.

Community Board 14 received this response today from the Department of Transportation regarding the request for a reduced speed limit on Campus Road.
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From DOT: "We apologize for the delay in responding to your April 11, 2014 e-mail regarding your request for a reduced speed limit on Campus Road between East 21st and East 23rd Streets, Brooklyn. Governor Cuomo recently signed legislation that will reduce the speed limit on most city streets to 25 miles per hour. Passage of this legislation was a major component of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan, a commitment to improve street safety in every neighborhood and in every borough – with expanded enforcement, new street designs and configurations, public education communications and a legislative agenda to increase penalties for dangerous drivers. The 25 mph legislation takes effect in mid-November. The Vision Zero Action Plan is available on the nyc.gov web site at www.nyc.gov/VisionZero. The NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) are collaborating in efforts to accomplish the goals identified in Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan. If speeding persists once this bill passes, police officers and traffic enforcement agents should issue summonses to any vehicles found to be in violation of traffic regulations. If there is an on-going problem of vehicles speeding in your neighborhood, please contact the local precinct. Contact information is available on the NYPD web site at http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/ home/contact_information.shtml. Thank you for your interest in traffic safety in New York City."

New York City Department of Transportation
Office of the Brooklyn Borough Commissioner
Customer Service Division
www.nyc.gov/dot

"From DOT: "We apologize for the delay in responding to your April 11, 2014 e-mail regarding your request for a reduced speed limit on Campus Road between East 21st and East 23rd Streets, Brooklyn."

Actually, DOT it's been almost a year (see above posting of 10-28-2013).

" If there is an on-going problem of vehicles speeding in your neighborhood, please contact the local precinct.""

So, are we to understand that the DOT has now passed this problem onto the NYPD!?

From DOT: "If there is an on-going problem of vehicles speeding in your neighborhood, please contact the local precinct." NYPD 70th Precinct can be contacted at 718-851-5511 or by calling 9-1-1.

Yes, it appears we are understand that the DOT has now passes these problem onto the NYPD!

So instead of installing a 25mph sign(s) on a dangerous stretch between a playground and a school/college, the DOT are asking YOU to contact the NYPD?

It appears it will be another situation where a child will have to die before a 25mph speed limit sign can be simply installed.

#DOTChildRoadSafetyPolicy

"Your issue has been outstanding for 601 days." - SeeClickFix

Yes, it appears we are understand that the DOT has now passes these problem onto the NYPD!?

So instead of installing a 25mph sign(s) on a dangerous stretch between a playground and a school/college, the DOT are asking YOU to contact the NYPD?

It appears it will require a fatality to occur before a simple 25mph speed limit sign can be installed?

#DOT

"Your issue has been outstanding for 631 days." - SeeClickFix

SeeClickFix,

It appears a fatality is required for a 25mph speed limit sign to be installed by the DOT, on a perilous stretch of road, between a Children's Playground and a College campus, that is being used as a speedy short-cut.

- Shocked and Despondant

The new default speed limit of 25 MPH takes effect on November 7th, 2014. This new regulation changes the speed limit on all New York City streets which do not have a posted speed limit from 30 MPH to 25 MPH. For more information, please visit www.nyc.gov/html/visionzero/pdf/library/25-MPH-FAQ.pdf

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In that case, the city will be able to make a lot of revenue by assigning a Traffic Police Officer to this stretch (at Ocean Ave, Campus Rd and Ave H intersection).