Pedestrian, bicycle traffic grows on Flushing Avenue
Brooklyn’s Flushing Avenue is seeing continued growth in pedestrian and bicycle traffic as the partially-constructed 14-mile Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway continues to gain in popularity and use.
According to a commuter-count taken by the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI) and nonprofit advocacy group Right of Way on June 20, 2014, 2,966 bicyclists and 1,030 pedestrians traveled along Flushing Avenue, which encompasses the southern border of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This accounted for 25 percent of overall traffic that day.
The new numbers follow a 2010 installation of bike lanes, including protected bike lanes, on the avenue and nearby Williamsburg Street West, which connects Kent and Flushing Avenues.
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