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15-Minute Closures to Haunt Belt Parkway


by Arthur Borko on Feb 8th, 2010

The Guider Avenue Bridge – officially known as the East 8th Street Bridge – over the Belt Parkway near Coney Island Avenue is slated for full reconstruction. The project, expected to last between 12 and 18 months, gives the contractor full discretion over Belt Parkway closures. For portions of the work the Belt Parkway will be shut down for 15 minutes at a time, holding traffic in place while large components are moved.

In preparation for the work, most of the area has already been fenced off, some equipment is in place and detour signs are up and waiting. The bridge contractor is waiting for his permits. Once received, construction will commence immediately and the bridge will be closed. The huge structural components of the bridge will be installed at night and closures will be implemented as necessary. Drivers going northbound on Coney Island Avenue (Or westbound from Guider Avenue) will lose their easy access to the Belt Parkway West. They’ll have to detour by heading to Avenue Z, making a left and another left at Hubbard Street or Ocean Parkway.

It seems this project wasn’t included in the list of seven bridges the DOT is replacing, and the reconstruction also comes alongside drainage and guardrail renovations along the entire Belt Parkway from Coney Island Avenue to Knapp Street. With the three simultaneous projects, traffic on the Belt Parkway is expected to be a nightmare for more than a year.

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  • Local Broker
    in all seriousness this is crazy that they are doing all this work at the same time. there is a crazy amount of traffic as is.

    Theresa, maybe you can help with something else. at the intersection of Cass Place and Corbin Place you should be able to make a right turn on red onto corbin. there is no reason why you can turn onto cass from neptune but not onto corbin from cass. there is a lot less foot traffic at that crosswalk. actually im writing this and dont know if she will even see it. ned or ray can you forward this to the powers that be.
  • Theresa Scavo
    To make a right turn from Neptune onto Cass was put into effect for non-school days and hours. The Community Board asked DOT for a traffic study of Cass and Corbin. The answer was it is fine as is. One resident asked that Corbin be one way because of the traffic snarls, DOT turned that idea down. The Board also asked about right turns on red and that was also turned down. DOT has various ways of studying an area and they all seem screwed up. Any one can submit a request to the Community Board and we will try to get DOT to listen.
  • Local Broker
    thanks for the response. it makes no sense that its ok on neptune to cass and not cass to corbin there is a lot less traffic there. making corbin one way is ridiculous. they should put up the same sign where its not allowed during school hours. how do you submit a request?
  • Ray Johnson
    That sign in the photo is interesting in that it seems to have a "seam" in the middle. Maybe, I've never gotten close enough to notice that highway signs are two pieces put together.
  • Local Broker
    There is only one way to react to this. THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT. i cant believe they would call the street by another name.
  • You might want to figure out 2811 Jerome Avenue as well. Jerome Avenue was demapped east of East 24th Street with the exception of this little cul de sac at East 28th Street.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/540966013/
  • Don't tell anyone, but there's no East 8th Street at that location. Where East 8th Street would have been was called Otis Pl, now Brighton 8th Street. Not surprising, at one time they had planned to rename it East 8th Street, but decided to give the street a Brighton prefix. Other Brighton street had short lives as East streets.
  • Theresa Scavo
    Truth be told, I agree, there is no East 8th Street at that location. But, according to New York Department of Transportation, the bridge in question is known as the East 8th Street Bridge. The project was put out for bid under the same name and the Construction project is called East 8th Street over Belt Parkway.
  • It's a vestigial part of our history. The streets in Brighton Beach had names originally. In the 1920s the city started renaming those streets to "East" streets. (as well as those east of Ocean Avenue north of Emmons.) In 1931 it was decided to give the Brighton streets a unique prefix. But apparently some records indicated them as East streets as late as the mid 1930s.
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