'It's just total chaos here.' Survey looks to improve safety on block of Lincoln Road
According to city data, since 2021, just under one person per month has been hurt in a car crash on the block,
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A survey launched by Brooklyn Community Board 9 is looking to improve safety on the block of Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Ocean avenues, which is right next to Prospect Park and has the Prospect Park subway station on it.
Even at a slower time, News 12 cameras saw the block filled with both double parked cars and buses in bike lanes, alongside families going back and forth.
"No one can see you, you can't see anybody," said Michael S., who lives nearby and walks to the subway station every day.
According to city data, since 2021, just under one person per month has been hurt in a car crash on the block,
"It's just total chaos here," said Michael. "With Flatbush on one side and Ocean on the other, you have two major roads, people love to just drag race through as a cutoff, too, it's a real scary place."
Brooklyn Community Board 9 has taken notice.
"This is something that's been known for a while," said CB9 chairperson Fred Baptiste. "It definitely has a lot of ingredients, it's a very difficult intersection, but it's also very small."
To sort though those ingredients, they launched the survey asking people about their experiences and concerns on the block.
"We don't always know what we don't know. We want people to come and tell us what's going on," said Baptiste.
When asked for his recommendations, Michael said, "parking on this street for all-day parking makes no sense at all, but even to just make it one way would stop some of the drag racing."
CB9 says the plan is to go over the results of the survey at a few different community meetings, then take all of the information to the New York City Department of Transportation, and find out exactly what changes can actually be made."
"The solutions aren't going to be popular either depending on what we're looking at," warned Baptise. "Because we're trying to figure out how to harmonize traffic safety, parking, bikes, in a very, very narrow stretch of land."
The survey will be open through at least September.
