Wheated Brooklyn

We are huge fans of Wheated, so I'm curious how this specifically would impact your business? It looks like they are providing delivery loading zones and your customers have 2 subway stations and bus lines nearby. For safety, environmental, and quality of life reasons, our neighborhood desperately needs a less car-centric design.

As someone who’s been a Wheated customer since day 1, I think this is overblown. I obviously don’t have this data, but I can’t imagine a significant percentage of your customers are arriving by car. Everyone I know who frequents the restaurant or the bar walks there. I know one person who comes by bus from Windsor Terrace. Furthermore, I don’t believe that the DOT has any obligation to, or even should, ask for the approval of local businesses before they re-design streets. Their own data surely tells them that the overwhelming majority of people in this neighborhood and along this corridor walk or take the bus, and this planned street design reflects that. Church Ave is currently a mess of cars, many of which drive illegally or dangerously. I support any plan to fix that and improve B35 bus service. And of course the area between E 16 and Flatbush Ave is a mess and hopefully the DOT will address that too soon.

This is great news! Church Ave is infuriating to travel along no matter what kind of vehicle you’re in; bus lanes will be a much better use of this limited street space than free storage for private cars.

That’s really messed up but par for the course with this administration. The DOE changes they’ve made were similarly done. They would announce community meetings in odd places with a few hours notice. They then bragged about how much feedback they had received from the communities. They implemented this change on Kings Highway and it had the opposite effect, same amount of traffic with less lanes. Parking on surrounding blocks became worse and numbers of accidents seem higher. I don’t have data to be sure but according to De Blasio on his radio show, his administration doesn’t have data on it either. Hopefully it is stopped. Parking is important for businesses in any neighborhood to attract people from other neighborhoods.

This is nuckin' futts! I'll share on local FB pages. Thanks for the heads up.

Chaim Deutsch- any help with this? This shouldn’t effect small businesses.

Nat Meade, Nicole Meade

https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2015/03/the-complete-business-case-for-converting-street-parking-into-bike-lanes/387595/