Local board to tackle parking issues, vehicular accidents with new sub-committees
A local panel will form two new sub-committees – one focused on parking problems and another on traffic accidents – to combat noteworthy rises in each within the board’s catchment area, which includes Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton.
The sub-committees will be a part of Community Board 10’s already overtaxed, agency-focused Traffic and Transportation Committee, board Chair Doris Cruz told members and local residents at the panels’ May monthly meeting.
“More voices, different voices can bring a better result,” Cruz said, urging board members to consider lending their hands to the new sub-groups, the first of which came out of concern mounting now that construction is set to start on the new elevator for the R station at 86th Street. “Committee members commented on valet parking in the area and how that might impact residents during construction.”