» Legacy of Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Advocates Continues [streetsblog]

“I always thought that intersection needed something,” Paco Abraham said. Thousands of commuters pass through the subway entrances on these corners every day. You’ve got students walking to schools on Bergen and customers heading to the restaurant row on Smith. They’re all contending with traffic that tends to accelerate on the excessively wide Bergen as drivers to make the light at Court Street.