In one of the blogwraps a few months ago, I had commented on a YourNabe.com story about Dyker Heights community organizations pleading their case to the DOT in order to get a traffic study. The problem the neighborhood has been facing has been traffic staying one step ahead of the DOT’s efforts to control it – every time they would put in a light, say, at 10th Avenue and 74th Street, traffic would find an alternate side street sans lights to use.
DHCA President Fran Vella-Marrone said traffic problems have been escalating in Dyker Heights – running roughly from 7th Avenue to 14th Avenue and from 65th Street to 86th Street – since the DOT have implemented solutions to certain intersections while ignoring overall traffic patterns.
“They (DOT) operate in a vacuum when they study only one intersection,” she said, adding that installing a traffic light at one intersection willy-nilly often results in the speeding up of traffic as motorists try to make the light before it turns red.
YourNabe.com now reports that the DOT will conduct a traffic study of the Dyker Heights, in increments of 10-block grids.
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