I'm very excited about this! _________________ "Now if every newspaper editor had to deal with a reader like Emily, boy, would they think twice, or three times." --greg
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 954 Location: out of here
Very Nice indeed! _________________ Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
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eterpay Newbie
Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 41 Location: Sterling Place
Mon May 19, 08 4:05 pm EST
this is a good thing.
bicicleta Newbie
Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 14
Mon May 19, 08 10:21 pm EST
Why is this a good thing? I'm just curious.
I've always ridden down the ave. (bikes, skateboards) late at night and there's nothing more fun than slaloming across that big fat wide road.
adding a median for pedestrians? you really need a 'break' from one side to the other?
if it's very well kept with nice plants, well, that might be nice. But I forsee a dead strip with stray coke cans.
will miss those late night runs.
bicicleta Newbie
Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 14
Mon May 19, 08 10:24 pm EST
Oh..
"* landscaped pedestrian crossings at Park Place, Bergen Street and Dean Street, and a raised and landscaped median between Prospect Place and St. Marks Avenue."
So it will be landscaped.. and it's billed as helping out bikers. Ok.. I'm down to check it out.. just not sure how taking away space on the road will make it easier for a biker.. shouldn't they just made better bike lanes?
Unless it's being done euro style with a separate bike line with its own median. THAT would be cool.
vanilla Carneviento Devotee
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1434
Mon May 19, 08 11:00 pm EST
bicicleta wrote:
Unless it's being done euro style with a separate bike line with its own median. THAT would be cool.
agreed.
stacey Beyond Karma
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3138 Location: Underhill Ave.
Tue May 20, 08 12:57 pm EST
vanilla wrote:
bicicleta wrote:
Unless it's being done euro style with a separate bike line with its own median. THAT would be cool.
agreed.
That would be very nice!
But I have to say that I do think that this is a good idea. The light to cross Vanderbilt is a short one and I see lots of kids going to school and moms with little ones trying to rush across that street so at least if you get stuck in the middle your can wait for the light instead of playing human frogger
Carnivore Brooklyn Snark
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 13712 Location: St Johns Pl and Underhill
Tue May 20, 08 2:47 pm EST
So is anyone old school enough to know whether there used to be a trolley line on Vanderbilt? I'm assuming the answer is yes, because the street excavation in preparation for the new landscaping revealed these old tracks:
arches Bruce Ratner's Love Child
Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 745 Location: Sterling & Underhill
Tue May 20, 08 3:01 pm EST
Pretty cool. I'm not nearly old enough to remember trolleys anywhere in NYC (i do remember double decker public buses and checker cabs though)...however this pic of Vanderbilt looking North from Grand Army seems to support the notion:
I mean look at that guy, thinking he owns the sidewalk!
There goes the neighborhood!
That is awesome! _________________ "It's only as boring as you make it."
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jeffrey blimp collector
Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 3521 Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Fri May 23, 08 4:12 pm EST
Okay, chalk up the 2nd-in-24h close encounter of the Brooklynian kind for me at the corner of Park and Vanderbilt.
Whatchuwant surprised me semi-incognito just now rockin' some seriously vamp, dark lipstick (rrrrowrrr! ).
Good stuff. _________________ i extend my battery life by averting extreme injustice and inherent evil
WhyFi Staid and Dull
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4450 Location: In the Groove
Fri May 23, 08 4:43 pm EST
Dude... at least bodega hangers-on have, uh, bodegas on their corner haunt - what's your story? Dry cleaner hanger-on? _________________ ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
Whatchuwant Parliament Menthol Funkadelic
Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 2636 Location: Eastern Pkwy and FA Rock
Fri May 23, 08 4:49 pm EST
jeffrey wrote:
Okay, chalk up the 2nd-in-24h close encounter of the Brooklynian kind for me at the corner of Park and Vanderbilt.
Whatchuwant surprised me semi-incognito just now rockin' some seriously vamp, dark lipstick (rrrrowrrr! ).
Good stuff.
For the record- there was not a drop of lint to be found on Jeffrey. Clean as a whistle and very spiffy in his button down. _________________ "...you can choose the rain....but I choose the sun..." - N. Costa
jeffrey blimp collector
Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 3521 Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Fri May 23, 08 5:02 pm EST
Hah, WhyFi, close...
Suffice it to say that there is a place nearby that commands a fair amount of my attention, outside of my own work. _________________ i extend my battery life by averting extreme injustice and inherent evil
jeffrey blimp collector
Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 3521 Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Fri May 23, 08 5:06 pm EST
And Whatchuwant, you should have seen WhyFi yesterday.
Methinks I need to step up my game.
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Whatchuwant Parliament Menthol Funkadelic
Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 2636 Location: Eastern Pkwy and FA Rock
Fri May 23, 08 5:34 pm EST
The one time I met Wi-fi, he was actually rockin' the look, tis true. _________________ "...you can choose the rain....but I choose the sun..." - N. Costa
bkhoosierfan Regular
Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 103 Location: Underhill Ave
Sun May 25, 08 12:35 am EST
they made more progress today but the tracks def slow them down
gw284 Newbie
Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2
Mon Jun 02, 08 2:50 pm EST
There used to be trolleys and elevated trains all over Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Dodgers were named so because Brooklyn pedestrians were constantly dodging the trolleys. Are we still dodging?
daver who is you is
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 3591 Location: the land of the smiling knives
Tue Jun 03, 08 12:32 pm EST
Streetsblog _________________ "It's only as boring as you make it."
You're making me want to poke my eyes out with a spoon. Stop that.
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armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5857 Location: boondocks
Tue Jun 03, 08 2:06 pm EST
the divider looks nice, but i wish they would of built a separate bike path instead, like a road between park cars and side walk. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
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daver who is you is
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 3591 Location: the land of the smiling knives
Tue Jun 03, 08 2:13 pm EST
armchair_warrior wrote:
the divider looks nice, but i wish they would of built a separate bike path instead, like a road between park cars and side walk.
Ala 9th Ave (in Manhattan?)
_________________ "It's only as boring as you make it."
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armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5857 Location: boondocks
Tue Jun 03, 08 2:28 pm EST
yes thats what i'm talking about.
i haven't rode a bike in the streets for years, cause i nearly got run over by a car when i was a kid. i only ride in parks. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
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ParadeRest Crabby Native
Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 507 Location: Park Place Shuttle
Tue Jun 03, 08 5:11 pm EST
I'm I the only person that is annoyed at the city's poor planning? Why in the world did they complete repave the street and paint all new lines (double yellow, crosswalks, etc) only to rip it up again? I guess the pavement planners don't ever talk to the planter box planner. Wouldn't it have made more sense to install the dividers before repaving the street?
BTW...How long until some jackass puts his car up on top of those black and white "things"?
poppy13 Insider
Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 357 Location: Prospect Place/Classon
Wed Jun 04, 08 10:25 am EST
My assumption is (which may be wrong)... harder to pave with "white things" in the middle of the road then to just pave the whole thing. Let's give the construction guys a little slack, they may actually know what they are doing.
Dude, look it's an elephant!
ParadeRest Crabby Native
Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 507 Location: Park Place Shuttle
Thu Jun 05, 08 10:32 am EST
Okay but why bother with putting down the pavement markings?
Either way they have to pave around the "white things". If you look at the photos you'll see that the area around them has to now be patched. Seems like a waste.
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5857 Location: boondocks
Thu Jun 05, 08 10:59 am EST
the city loves to waste money, for example there is a very good patch of road on bedford ave in midwood, but every few years they tear it up and remake the roads all the roads there. its like clock work there.
while other areas with crappy roads never get it redone. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
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stacey Beyond Karma
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3138 Location: Underhill Ave.
Thu Jun 05, 08 11:09 am EST
ParadeRest wrote:
Okay but why bother with putting down the pavement markings?
Either way they have to pave around the "white things". If you look at the photos you'll see that the area around them has to now be patched. Seems like a waste.
But didn't they just cut out what they had painted in (kind of like a guideline)? I was under the assumption that they put the lines down first as a way to see how the traffic would work before they dug it up and put in the medians.
J0518 Crabby Native
Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 593 Location: Park Place
Thu Jun 05, 08 12:55 pm EST
maybe it'll make the Evelyn Limo guys drive a bit slower.
MeredithB Happy-Go-Lucky Malcontent
Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 1327 Location: Here and There
Thu Jun 05, 08 1:29 pm EST
Here's the problem with bike lanes:
Notice the double parked car on the left in the bike lane.
Notice no bicyclists in the bike lane.
Protected bike lanes are great if they actually go somewhere.
Painted bike lanes are a waste of taxpayer dollars as they just become double-parking lanes.
But you can dream that enforcement of bike lanes will be stepped up which is highly doubtful. _________________ Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches.
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