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DATE	2018-05-05
FROM	Ruben Safir
SUBJECT	Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Anger at the SBS B82 is boiling over
http://www.brooklyn-living.com/b82_sbs_opposition.html#const There is more than a single constuency involved a dramatic land grab by the MTA along the narrow streets of the Kings Highway Business district for the SBS B82. And despite there being better options for routing a super express bus through Midwood, the MTA and the DOT have refused to listen to any complaints. The times hasn't written a word about this, ignoring the outer boroughs as normal. Maybe we can get some coverage for a project that will negatively affect nearly 200,000 people. These are the constituencies involved... (see the website for more information) The Cab and Limousine Businesses -Kings Highway is a huge transport hub for multiple communities. There are no less than 4 local taxi services and 2 taxi pickup lanes. Subway Commuters - This overlaps with local residents, but also includes the residents of the feeder communities from Bergen Beach to the Bensonhust boarder. All these commuters need feed into the train station through the 5 bus lines and "kiss and bye" drop offs points around the train station. People need to drive into and out of the immediate area for pickups and drop offs of children, parents, lost relatives, or whoever might need to not drag themselves and their packages onto a bus from the train. Retail Business - Retail businesses have been very vocal about the loss of street parking. And they are right to be angry. South Brooklyn and the area around the Kings Highway district is dependent on automobiles. These communities are not like downtown Brooklyn, or even Flatbush. They are spread out and most families have multiple cars. No business in the area invests without considering the parking problem. They must have adequate parking and parking has been taken away from the neighborhood for 20 years. First the Parking lot around the Fire House, which was heavily used, was eliminated with the building to the super structure on East 15th Street that now has TJ Max. The private garage that was substituted was then removed, and the price of parking in the garage at TJ Max increased and the lot closes early. The surrounding communities are at the bursting point when it comes to parking. UPS will no longer deliver properly in the community. They quickly come through and drop off pick up notices to pick up at the JFK terminal. From Avenue O, to Avenue R, double parking is all along the side streets, radiating outward from Kings Highway. But parking isn't even the local retailers biggest trouble. Truck delivery and the tandem buses is. Thousands of pounds of fresh produce, fish, dairy and meat is sold daily on Kings Highways shops. These products need morning delivery and it takes time to load and unload produce, meats, etc. By cutting out the parking lanes at this time, you are telling trucks that they have to block the entire roadway in order to make delivery. This is going to come as an enormous emotion cost to residents, but worst is that the trucks will deliver no matter what. The tickets that they receive will simply be passed along to the retailers who will then try to pass it along to the consumer. Customers will be forced to shop elsewhere for competitively priced products...and THAT is what will put the small businesses out of business. Pedestrians - Removing the parking lane endangers pedestrians. Kings Highway is very narrow and pedestrians cross it at will, like any small town. When you remove the parking column, they have no protection when they step into the street, especially the elderly, even when they cross at the corners. The area around 12th street is particularly pedestrian with people hanging out on benches or by their cars on the Quentin Road triangle. Currently traffic goes very slow. The buses will go much faster than current traffic. It is a huge error to put articulated buses at 25 MPH (and likely more) running down the bus lanes with pedestrians coming and going. There is no way any double tandem bus will be able to stop. This is an unnecessary risk that will lead to tragedy. Additionally, the Tandem Buses are very long. This will create a huge inconvenience for pedestrians trying to cross with a train of tandem buses blocking walkers. This is even more the cse right in front of the station entrance where people are constantly running across the street, back and forth. Tandem buses create a trap. Schools, Yeshivot and School Buses - The area in question is surrounded by educational institutions. School buses need to make pickups and drop offs in the morning along Kings Highway and must have curb access. Touro College, and B'nos Yisorael Girls School are directly in the business district as are a number of trad schools and the Kaplan preperation center. Propsect Park Yeshiva and Bais Yockov Academy, St Benards Catholic School and the Mirrer Yeshiva are less than a block away. All these schools need curb access in order to function and need to cross Kings Highway. One of the more grievous parts of this proposal is the closing of East 12th Street. This will completely lock up access to Kings Highway as the other side streets have been stopped from crossing the road. This will shove all the traffic, especially school buses, either directly onto the Kings Highway road way and up Coney Island Avenue. Bus Riders traveling from Canarsie to Coney Island - The trip from Canarsie to Coney Island is difficult by mass transit. If one goes by subway, they take the bus of walk to the Rockaway Parkway L train station. They ride to Broadway Junction and switch for the C train on the Fulton Line. They transfer to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to the Brighton Line and take the Q or the B Train to Coney Island. Alternately, they can take the L train to 14th Street and Union Square in Manhattan and return back on the Q train. Today there is the new route using a transfer to the IRT at Liviona Avenue to Atlantic Avenue to the Brighton Line. If leaving from East 107th Street and Flatlands Avenue, all these way is over an hour and twenty minutes. (according to google maps and by experience). The fastest means, shaving about 15 minutes from the trip, is to take the B82 to Kings Highway and the Q to Coney Island, which reinforces the importance of the leg of the B82 to Coney Island. One can take the B82 straight through to Coney Island, but that one of the longest routes, and is the chief reason for wanting to streamline the route with the SBS. It maintains a single seat ride through south Brooklyn and in theory, reduces the time to make a trip. Overall, this is a fairly complete look at all the stakeholders involved with the implementation for a SBS B82 bus route with articulated buses through the Kings Highway business district, aside from the interests of the MTA itself, and the manufacturers of articulated buses and so on. Reviewing the motivations of the MTA in this matter and its self interest is a long and complex discussion, one worthy of serious study, maybe even necessary and vital, but beyond the scope of this evaluation. But we will touch on the subject as necessary. More directly related to this issue is an evaluation of the data and promotion of this project that the MTA presents. In that regard we are left to evaluate several of the powerpoint presentations and PDF files that the MTA has left behind, and we will try to dig through some of the source material, in order to understand what the MTA is presenting to the public, and how they have manipulated data to misrepresent the facts to the public. Then hopefully we can clarify the meaning of their data, and determine its real meaning to the public, and look at the real costs and benefits of this route. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ Hangout mailing list Hangout-at-nylxs.com http://lists.mrbrklyn.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout