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    • 86th Street Reconfiguration Project Gets The Green Light


    by on Jul 5th, 2012

    Source: Karelj via Wikimedia Commons

    The intersection at Fourth Avenue and 86th Street has been approved for a large reconfiguration project to aid in safer driving and pedestrian access.

    Community Board 10 says that area is high with driver and pedestrian accidents, according to CB10 District Manager Josephine Beckmann. After months of talk, Community Board 10 and DOT agreed on a plan to add traffic safety measures that would reduce injury and death.

    The board approved the addition of a right hand turn restriction on traffic moving eastbound at Fourth Avenue. This affects Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst in that cars moving towards either of the two neighborhoods will not be able to turn onto Fourth Avenue from 86th Street, according to Home Reporter News.

    Other planned changes include: Left turn restrictions for traffic on Third and Fourth Avenues onto 86th Street; countdown signals on all pedestrian crosswalks in the corridor and a traffic light configuration for all the lights on 86th Street, between Fifth and Fourth Avenues to Shore Road; and a new stop sign at 87th Street and Ridge Boulevard.

    “There is a great deal of automobile and pedestrian contact by vehicles making that right turn,” said Brian Kieran, chair of the Traffic and Transportation Committee. “This should improve bus safety on that block, as well.”

    Bensonhurst local, Vinny S. says that while he this may help traffic in Bay Ridge, he’s weary of how it will impact traffic east on 86th Street.

    “There are so many traffic issues along 86th around here. I’m wondering how this affects our area. Maybe we should have a big traffic project to get rid of all the double parked unloading trucks,” he says.

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    • Guest

      If something isn’t done about all the double parked cars in front of the stores on both sides of 86th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues then everything else is useless in my opinion. There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to come down 86th Street and, besides seeing all the cars double parked, seeing cops who should be giving out tickets for double parking or at least chasing cars away and watching them just keep walking down the block oblivious to it all all because they’re jocused on ticketing cars parked at expired meters. So let them talk all they want about reconfiguring traffic. It won’t mean a damn thing if they don’t do anything to prevent double parking on 86th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues.