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GRAVESEND REDESIGN
DOT unveils new plans to overhaul stretch of dangerous roadway
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
City transportation gurus offi
cially unveiled plans to redesign
a dangerous roadway in
Gravesend at a May 22 Community
Board 13 meeting.
The city Department of
Transportation presented the
proposal to overhaul a halfmile
stretch of Cropsey Avenue,
between 26th Avenue
and Bay 50th Street, where 114
people have been injured over
a fi ve-year period from 2013 to
2017, according to department
statistics.
The project would shorten
pedestrian crosswalks, formalize
traffi c lanes, and redesign
turning infrastructure throughout
the eight-block stretch in an
effort to promote better traffi c
fl ow and increase safety, according
to the department.
Currently, pedestrians
travel 90 feet to cross Cropsey
Avenue, often with limited
crosswalk markings, leading
to hazardous conditions on the
car-dense roadway. To foster
safer foot traffi c, the department
plan calls for construction
of high visibility walkways
with a protected island in the
middle of the crosswalk area,
offering refuge to pedestrians
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