Sunset Parkers form list of recommendations on DOT’s Fourth Avenue bike lane proposal
In response to New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to provide Fourth Avenue with a parking-protected bike lane, Sunset Park residents want to have their voices heard on recommendations and concerns.
To that end, after reviewing the plans, Sunset Park Restoration and the Sunset Parker Facebook page, which has nearly 10,000 members, forwarded a list of 11 items to the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC), elected officials, and Community Boards 6 and 7.
The protected bike lane plan includes shaving some space off the median and shifting it to the sides of the roadway. Two travel lanes would be slightly narrower. It also calls for adding pedestrian refuge islands, and the removal of some parking for islands and loading zones as well as narrowing wide parking lanes with lost width possibly impacting traffic lanes, and the addition of landscaping on islands.