[Back in July]
Back in July, workers installed pedestrian crosswalk islands along Third Avenue as part of the ongoing Astor Place Reconstruction Project… then! At the end of September, workers jackhammered away the island on the north part of the St. Mark's Place-Third Avenue intersection ... leaving behind a springy tar pit...
[EVG photo from Sept. 25]
Then yesterday! Workers began putting in a pedestrian island on the southern side of the St. Mark's Place-Third Avenue intersection…
There isn't a timetable just yet for the removal of this pedestrian crosswalk island.
Photos yesterday via EVG correspondent Steven
batshit idiots.
ReplyDeleteand is it completely impossible for them to finish one section of this project at a time? there's a five-block stretch of third/bowery that's been a complete mess for the last year.
Future Islands
ReplyDeleteThis morning I think they were digging up each intersection - my tax dollars being wasted for sure
ReplyDeletede Blasio can only bury so many homeless people beneath 3rd Avenue.
ReplyDeleteOne of the goals of restructuring this avenue is to reduce traffic. To do such, we actually create traffic with boondoggle construction projects so cars and trucks and bikes and the general public avoid the area altogether.
ReplyDeleteSure, the well-to-do paying big money for office space at 51 Astor Place and the millionaire apartment owners at 445 Lafayette Street have issued a fatwa calling for my boney head on an orange traffic cone for turning the neighborhood into a worthless pile of rubble. But I feel confident that once the permanent pedestrian plazas are in place by summer 2031, everyone will be saying, "Amanda, job well done!"
I don't know if people get outside the East Village much, but traffic reduction has been happening all over the city. In fact, it's happening in cities across the country. Reducing traffic and increasing pedestrian and bike access is the way of the future, people.
ReplyDelete10:40 no one is arguing otherwise. Are you unable to comprehend the nature of this post?
ReplyDeleteDig shit up = $$$$, Tear shit down = $$$, Dig shit up again = $$$..... "that's good work boys, keep the tax dollars flowing in!"
ReplyDeleteChrist, all this time I was at my job completing projects in a timely manner with the goal to get them done as quickly and efficiently as possible for my clients! well what an IDIOT i've been!?? From now on i'm running my business like the city's construction workers.. I'll start my project, BILL them for it, then midway through I'll scrap the whole thing and BILL them for the time spent scrapping it, only to BILL them again to build the exact same thing in a slightly different position. Look at that! I just doubled my profits!
ANY EMPLOYEE ON EARTH that performed the way these city construction workers do would be FIRED immediately! but NO, these guys aren't accountable to anyone, especially not US the taxpayers who bare the brunt of their shoddy, long-drawn-out projects that clog our commutes and WASTE our tax dollars. Lets tear up a street for a week, stand around for a certain allotted amount of time that we can bill the taxpayers for, and then fill it with springy tar crap like "job well done". the level of blatant incompetence here is CRIMINAL!
And by the way.. what's happening with the Astor Cube space?? When's that gonna get done now that you've shifted your focus to tearing up, filling, tearing-back down 3rd avenue?? you tore up Astor and now just leave it as some dumping ground for your scrap parts and construction materials. How long is that gonna sit there unfinished?
Why are these disorganized assholes allowed to just stop midway through a project and just sit around scratching their asses for a year? Who's running this shit-show?
@Anon 10:54 AM: I (not the Anon you were replying to though) understood the "nature of the post" and I felt that it was casting the disruption of vehicle traffic as "a bad thing". That disruption is not only not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Vehicle traffic needs to be slowed down, "calmed" if you will, and putting obstacles in the roadway is a proven way to do that. The "millionaire apartment owners" who have children in addition to money will appreciate that, if even one of their children who would otherwise be run down by a vehicle instead grows up to a happy adulthood.
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10:40... Traffic reduction? There are more cars entering Manhattan than ever before. And there is less street space due to islands and bike lanes. Congestion pricing is the only answer or start tolls on the East River bridges.
ReplyDeleteChange is good!!! Falling in an everlasting construction pit is good!!! Getting hit by bikes is good!!! It happens all across America and its good!!! Now that I'm all worked up its back to my dorm for Ativan and Adventure Time.
ReplyDeletecmarrtyy, Congestion pricing is not the only answer, but it is one answer.
ReplyDeleteTraffic reduction is a joke; we just end up with the same traffic crammed into less roadway. I call it "traf-fuck" - where you screw up something with the idea that it'll discourage people from driving, but you really just make EVERYTHING worse.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2:03, The evidence is against you.
ReplyDeleteI especially love the construction workers with the stop signs. I can never figure out what they are stopping.
ReplyDeleteDiscouraging drivers is a good thing. Maybe then they'll get up off their seats and stretch their legs for a change.
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