BY JESSICA PARKS
City transportation honchos
will be transforming the
streets of Bay Ridge with a fl eet
of new loading zones in the
coming weeks — taking away
parking spaces to allow temporary
drop-off zones in an effort
to deter double parking.
“The growth of e-commerce
deliveries on residential
streets and for-hire vehicle
trips throughout the city have
changed the way New Yorker’s
use our curbs,” the city Department
of Transportation’s
website says. “As demands on
the City’s limited amount of
curb space continues to grow,
trucks, delivery vehicles, and
personal vehicles need safe
ways to access the curbs while
not blocking traffi c, including
on bus routes or in bike lanes.”
The new dedicated spaces
for temporary idling will
count toward a law enacted
by the City Council in November
2021 mandating that the
DOT install 500 neighborhood
loading zones on residential
streets across the city. There
are currently 146 such spaces
already in place throughout
the Five Boroughs.
Neighborhood loading zones
are mostly in effect between 7
am and 7 pm on weekdays, and
otherwise serve as a regular
parking spot. When in effect,
the spaces are intended to be
used by vehicles expeditiously
dropping something off, such
as groceries or passengers.
“Passenger vehicles can’t
park there, you have to expeditiously,
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and that is the key
word expeditiously load or
unload,” said Dean Rasinya.
“Which basically means you
can’t leave your car, you can’t
park there, walk into the doctor’s
offi ce to drop somebody
off and come out again.”
Unlike typical “No Parking”
signs, the DOT’s markers
for neighborhood loading
zones are blue, with a cartoon
image of a person carrying a
box, with text announcing the
space’s intended purpose.
When neighborhood loading
zones were introduced in
nearby Park Slope in Jan 2021,
neighbors claimed they were
blindsided with the new installation
and the disappearance
of parking spaces, which
they say occurred overnight.
This time, the city transportation
agency presented
the neighborhood loading
zone plan to Bay Ridge’s Community
Board 10 in June 2021,
and subsequently opened up
an online suggestion portal to
fi eld location from the community
— which they received a
total of 86 suggestions.
Using a combination of
community input and their
own analyses, the DOT returned
to the board’s Transportation
Committee in January
with 31 locations focused
around narrow streets, roads
with bike lanes, and heavily
populated residential blocks
throughout Bay Ridge — saying
the new zones would prevent
double parking.
While the project does
not require the community
board’s approval to move forward,
the Transportation
Committee received the full
Residential loading zones in Park Slope early last year were met with
some outrage from neighbors. Photo by Ben Verde
board’s consent to issue a letter
to the city transportation
agency with a list of requests
on the rollout of the new zones.
The letter will ask the DOT
to consider rolling out the project
incrementally over several
months, shortening the zones’
active hours to 8 am to 6 pm,
reducing the number of sites
to one neighborhood loading
zone per block, conducting a
public outreach campaign on
the new program, better signage,
implement loading zone
coloration at the curb, and releasing
a data feedback report
to the board six months after
installation.
Installation of the new
loading zones was expected
to commence this month, according
to the community
board, but the project has
been moved to early spring
and will be rolled out incrementally
as the community
board has requested, according
to a transportation department
spokesperson.
New curbside loading
zones coming to Bay Ridge
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