By COLlive reporter
Do you stop or do you go?
When a new traffic light is installed, it typically ensures a smoother and safer interaction between both drivers and pedestrians.
Not so on the southwest intersection of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York.
The corner, near the large Oholei Torah boys school, now has both a traffic light and a red stop sign, plus stop markings on the street pavement as well.
Those crossing are certain that drivers will stop, while drivers who see a green light believe that have the right of way.
The conflicting signage has caused several near-accidents at the intersection, particularly involving students and staff from Oholei Torah as they walk to and from school. This led the school to send out a “safety alert.”
A video was recorded to show the problematic and dangerous zone. “We have heard from a few adults that they almost got hit by oncoming traffic,” they said.
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COLlive.com has notified the New York City Department of Transportation about the issue.
A representative for NYC DOT’s Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Keith Bray explained that two different divisions manage the lights and the markings, and they will pass it along to be resolved.
Start working on this and other road and parking problems in ch .
Thanks
I think the new crown heights community council should be on top of this
No?
pretty nuts
On Eastern Parkway and Albany also.
See an almost accident there every day!
There it’s an actual issue.
Pedestrians who have been crossing that service lane regularly are just not used to looking for a walk signal and are used to cars automatically stopping.
We need to train ourselves to start looking at and following the walk signal like we do for the rest of the Parkway and the other service lane.
In the long run having a walk signal there will be much safer.
No one is used to cars ‘automatically stopping’.
Whenever anyone crosses the street, whether there is a stop sign or red light for oncoming traffic, one should ALWAYS look and not just assume the driver will stop at a red light or stop sign. I’ve seen dozens of times when drives blow stop signs or red lights. All you need is someone to walk into the intersection looking at their phone and assuming the driver has stopped……
Thank you Rabbi Yehoshua Lustig!
Nothing will happen until God forbid………
I’m not going to say the rest, but I’m Shure you’ll figure out the rest.
Oh.
What happened on 9/11?
And who reacted after the fact?
Or call 311 and report it.
Thanks for the PSA.
Btw, there’s also a traffic light on Nostrand and Lefferts (Not Mamash in the Shechuna) in which the pedestrian crossing signals are always red. I called 311 three times, and they said they’d look into it, but nothing changed.
Today, while walking down Kingston Avenue, I saw a kid dash away from his mother towards the busy traffic on Empire Boulevard. The mother screamed sooo loud. Everyone on the street stopped to look, and even the store owners peaked their heads out the door. As I’m feeling my stomach drop from the stress, I immediately turned around and buried my head near the tree as not to see what was about to unfold. Just as the child stepped into the street, the mother grabbed him, saving his life at the last second B”H. TYH! Just a reminder about street… Read more »
The police should have been called to put up a notice somehow to bring awareness
before the ny city will take care of it!!!
Just get used to actually looking at the signal.
Instead of walking across the road assuming cars will stop.
Even if you have the Green light, you should ALWAYS look to see if oncoming cars are actually stopping. TOO many crazy, entitled drivers around…
In that case traffic light not working on one side and cars not realizing and just plowing right through while pedestrians see the walk sign across the parkway and step into the street. It has happened so many times now AND LEFT THAT WAY FOR HOURS or maybe whole days that I can almost believe that this is no longer just negligence. The streets are teeming with psychos and addicts, homeless and migrant shelters all over the place right in our neighborhood, citibikes taking over parking, targeted ticketing, no consequences for the increasing crime on our community.. definitely a pattern.
Call it what you like but.. if this were anywhere else, a quick call to 311 would correct a dangerous situation like this on the same day. In CH, where for some reason we have no govt representation, this very simple fix will not be seen to without phone calls to congress.
All you need to do is cover the old stop sign with a garbage bag. (perhaps someone from the school should do it mostly affects them)
A person should never start crossing a street if there’s a car driving regular speed never assume ever that the car for sure sees the red light. Especially if it’s only a stop sign. When they changed the stop sign to a red light on union and Kingston did that lead to accidents??
this is an actual good improvement in the long run unlike some other ‘improvements’. but there should be signage to alert pedestriians of changes
thank you so much
Even if a car has a stop sign, you as a pedestrian always need to stop and check that the car is stopping before crossing. Always act as if they will blow through the stop sign, don’t just cross without checking, that’s just basic safety…