The CB7 Transportation Committee will meet on Wednesday, September 3 @ 6:30 p.m. at the CB7 Office-4201 4th Avenue (enter on 43rd Street & 4th Avenue).
Agenda:You can attend in person or register to attend virtually on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3ULuCqO
- NYC Ferry Route Optimization - 2025 NYC Ferry Network Optimization | NYCEDC; Discuss implications and requests for CB7
- Committee Discussion on McDonald Avenue from 20 St to Ft Hamilton Pkwy - See Presentation from DOT
- Committee Discussion on fall/winter Transportation Committee agenda Items
You can view the committee meeting on the Brooklyn Community Board 7's YouTube Channel:
https://bit.ly/2ROsJwJ
The Department of Transportation presented its proposal to the Community Board 7 Transportation Committee at the committee's in-person and virtual meeting on June 10th.
Vehicles would travel in one northbound lane and one southbound lane; the center lane would become a turn lane.
Bus boarding islands would be constructed to prevent buses from interfering with the flow of traffic when they stop to let passengers on and off.
The bus stop at Terrace Place and McDonald Avenue would be eliminated.
The length of the traffic signals would be coordinated; they currently last for varying lengths of time.
A physical barrier between the bike lane and vehicle traffic would eventually be installed, but initially, paint would serve as an indication to drivers to stay out of the bike lane.
At the June 10th meeting, committee members and neighborhood residents raised a number of questions and issues about the proposal. Because committee members said that they needed time to consider the proposal as well as to study residents' comments, they didn't vote on the proposal on June 10th.
The discussion will continue at a Transportation Committee meeting on Wednesday, September 3rd.
The entire June 10th committee meeting can be viewed on CB 7's YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6UAzgCXhdc. The presentation about the bike lane starts at 1:12:45.
DOT's nineteen-page PowerPoint presentation is posted at https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/mcdonald-ave-10-ave-20-st-ft-hamilton-pkwy-jun2025.pdf.
