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COURIER L 12 IFE, MAY 31–JUNE 6, 2019 M BR B G
PLANNED: The Department of Transportation announced its intention to redesign a dangerous
stretch of Cropsey Avenue in Gravesend on May 22. Google Maps
DOT PLANS
REDESIGN
City agency reveals proposal to
overhaul Gravesend 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 half-mile 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
halfway through the wide street.
The plan would also narrow traffi c
lanes on the avenue by widening the
mid-road divider — which currently
houses a narrow row of trees and traffi
c lights — by 10 feet. The expanded divider
would create a quasi-sidewalk in
the middle of the road, while reducing
the car roadway from 40 feet to 35 feet in
either direction, which the department
hopes will discourage speeding.
The department proposal also calls
for elimination of some parking spaces
to dedicate proper traffi c lanes for cars
attempting to turn onto Cropsey Avenue,
which they say would better organize
and facilitate traffi c movement.
Community Board 13 transportation
reps will vote on the plan at a June
12 subcommittee meeting, before the
full board decides whether to give their
blessing on June 26.
If approved, construction would begin
in early 2020.
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