It's Not Abstract Art! It's a Crosswalk Giving Pedestrians on Broadway a Leg Up
If you have been on Broadway in the past few days, you've seen a rather incredible transformation: a new crosswalk from median strip to median strip right smack dab across W. 96th Street. This crosswalk with its concomitant expanded corners, medians, and new "no left turn" indications now allows pedestrians to flow freely -- and with care, safely -- into and out of the 96th Street subway station house. The new crosswalk eases the pressure on the southeast and southwest corners of Broadway and W. 96th where pedestrians congregated and impatiently awaited the chance to cross over to the station. The change means that north and south bound drivers on Broadway will not have to navigate through the same maze of jaywalking straphangers rushing for their trains. And it means that subway riders can flow into and out of the station house in all directions with the light.
With time, all hope these changes will improve traffic safety in our neighborhood. However, drivers still need to make those now-prohibited left turns as seen in the diagram above. Where will they do it now? And will that become the next problem zone for drivers and pedestrians? Stay tuned for more on traffic safety on the Upper West Side.
By Caitlin Hawke
h/t to the West Side Rag which has the story in detail, as it often does!
Photo credit: DOT by way of Mark Levine's office
With time, all hope these changes will improve traffic safety in our neighborhood. However, drivers still need to make those now-prohibited left turns as seen in the diagram above. Where will they do it now? And will that become the next problem zone for drivers and pedestrians? Stay tuned for more on traffic safety on the Upper West Side.
By Caitlin Hawke
h/t to the West Side Rag which has the story in detail, as it often does!
Photo credit: DOT by way of Mark Levine's office
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