Description
The stretch from 22nd St to 21st St to Ocean Ave is used by cars and delivery vans as a shortcut, breaking the speed limit.
It passes right by a city playground, the college on it's other side. To avoid the death of a child, speed bumps should be placed along this section.
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SeeClickFixer (Guest)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
We look forward to seeing the results of the study in Sept!
21st_Brooklyn (Guest)
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Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
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Reopened 21st_Brooklyn (Guest)
Does a child have to die first before this situation is rectified? Shameful.
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
21st_Brooklyn (Guest)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
21st_Brooklyn (Guest)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Guest)
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.
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
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)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Guest)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
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21st_Brooklyn (Guest)
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Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
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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
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
"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!?
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
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
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
"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
Closed 21st_Brooklyn (Guest)
"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
Brooklyn Community Board 14 (Registered User)
SeeClickFixer (Guest)
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).