Draft EIS ECF 80 Flatbush Avenue Part 4
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WILLOUGHBY STFLEET PL 2/5/2018 FLEET ST Fort Greene University Park Place FLATBUSH AVE EXTENSION DE KALB AVE HUDSON AVE Albee Square SOUTH PORTLAND AVE ASHLAND PL BOND ST SOUTH ELLIOTT PL HANOVER PL GROVE PL 230 Ashland Place POPS FULTON ST LIVINGSTON ST ST FELIX ST ROCKWELL PL Theatre for a New Audience Fowler Square VE TTE A FAYE Rockwell Place Bears LA SCHERMERHORN ST Community Garden Seating Sixteen Sycamores Area 2 Playground 300 Ashland Place Plaza FT GREENE PL STATE ST NEVINS ST FLATBUSH AVE HANSON PL North Pacific Plgd ATLANTIC AVE 3 AVE Atlantic PACIFIC ST Terminal Mall Plaza Barclay's Center DEAN ST Plaza 4 AVE E V A 5 BERGEN ST WYCKOFF ST Greenstreet Wykoff ST MARK'S PL Gardens Open Space Project Site 0 400 FEET Traffic Analysis Location Traffic Analysis Locations ECF 80 FLATBUSH AVENUE Figure 11-4 Chapter 11: Transportation Table 11-8 Traffic Level 2 Screening Analysis Results—Analysis Locations Incremental Vehicle Trips (Weekday) Intersection AM Midday PM Analysis Locations Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue 0 0 0 Livingston Street and Bond Street 4 1 4 Schermerhorn Street and Bond Street 35 9 23 Flatbush Avenue and DeKalb Avenue 57 14 57 ✓ Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street 72 19 92 ✓ Flatbush Avenue and Nevins Street 37 9 52 Livingston Street and Nevins Street 30 6 32 Schermerhorn Street and Nevins Street 61 13 51 ✓ State Street and Nevins Street 51 8 49 ✓ Atlantic Avenue and Nevins Street 32 7 36 Pacific Street and Nevins Street 10 0 7 DeKalb Avenue and Hudson Avenue 6 0 1 Hudson Avenue and Fulton Street 35 13 58 Flatbush Avenue and Livingston Street 32 8 42 Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Avenue 73 12 70 ✓ Schermerhorn Street and 3rd Avenue 43 9 36 ✓ State Street and 3rd Avenue 84 13 72 ✓ Atlantic Avenue and 3rd Avenue 65 12 59 ✓ Pacific Street and 3rd Avenue 0 1 1 DeKalb Avenue and Rockwell Place 6 0 1 Fulton Street and Rockwell Place 35 13 58 Lafayette Avenue and Rockwell Place 45 7 31 ✓ Flatbush Avenue and Schermerhorn Street 32 3 33 Flatbush Avenue and State Street 80 9 75 ✓ Flatbush Avenue and 4th Avenue 80 9 75 ✓ 4th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue 74 12 66 ✓ 4th Avenue and Pacific Street 10 1 8 Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue 49 7 47 ✓ DeKalb Avenue and Ashland Place 1 1 5 Fulton Street and Ashland Place 50 16 81 ✓ Ashland Place and Lafayette Avenue 81 20 96 ✓ DeKalb Avenue and St Felix Street 1 0 2 St Felix Street and Fulton Street 19 5 26 St Felix Street and Lafayette Avenue 15 4 19 St Felix Street and Hanson Place 55 16 66 DeKalb Avenue and Fort Green Place 1 0 2 Fort Greene Place and Fulton Street 19 5 26 Fort Greene Place and Lafayette Avenue 15 4 19 Fort Greene Place and Hanson Place 85 22 85 ✓ Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street 18 5 25 DeKalb Avenue and S Elliot Place 1 0 2 S Elliot Place and Lafayette Avenue -1 0 -1 S Elliot Place and Fulton Street 19 5 26 S Elliot Place and Hanson Place 28 2 11 DeKalb Avenue and S Portland Avenue 5 1 2 S Portland Avenue and Lafayette Avenue 3 1 -1 S Portland Avenue and Fulton Street 43 6 37 S Portland Avenue and Hanson Place 28 2 11 DeKalb Avenue and S Oxford Street 5 1 2 S Oxford Street and Lafayette Avenue 3 1 -1 S Oxford Street and Fulton Street 43 6 37 State Street and Bond Street 7 1 7 Atlantic Avenue and Bond Street 21 7 30 Pacific Street and Bond Street 0 0 0 Fulton Street and Hanover Place 0 0 0 Livingston Street and Hanover Place 1 0 2 Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue 28 2 28 Atlantic Avenue and Fort Greene Place 27 9 27 S Elliot Place and S Portland Avenue 0 0 0 Atlantic Avenue and S Portland Avenue 7 5 7 Fulton Street and Hanson Place 43 6 37 Notes: ✓ denotes intersections selected for the detailed traffic analysis. 11-11 ECF 80 Flatbush Avenue PEDESTRIANS As shown in Table 11-6, the projected peak-hour incremental pedestrian trips would exceed the CEQR analysis threshold of 200 pedestrians during all peak hours. Level 2 pedestrian trip assignments were individually developed for all the proposed uses, as shown in Figures 11-5 through 11-7 and discussed below. • Auto Trips—All of the student auto pick-up and drop-off trips were assigned to the State Street, Schermerhorn Street, and Flatbush Avenue curbsides for the proposed school facilities. Motorists would seek parking at off-street parking facilities in the study area. Motorists parking at off-site facilities would walk to and from these off-street parking facilities. • Taxi Trips—Taxi patrons would get dropped off and picked up along State Street, Schermerhorn Street, 3rd Avenue, and Flatbush Avenue. • City Bus Trips—City bus riders would take buses stopping on 3rd Avenue, Fulton Street, Flatbush Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue. • Subway Trips—Subway riders were assigned to the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station (B, D, N, Q, R, and No. 2, 3, 4, 5 trains), Hoyt Schermerhorn station (A, C, and G trains), Nevins Street station (No. 2, 3, 4, and 5), and the Lafayette Avenue station (G train). • Walk-Only Trips—Pedestrian walk-only trips were developed by distributing project- generated person trips to area pedestrian facilities (i.e., sidewalks, corner reservoirs, and crosswalks) based on population data as well as the land use characteristics of the surrounding neighborhood. CHANGES TO THE STUDY AREA STREET NETWORK DOT has proposed but not yet obtained final approval for a neighborhood pedestrian safety project that would include curb extensions, larger plazas, and shorter crossings for pedestrians, and a bus lane project on Fulton Street that would modify lane widths at Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue. From the pedestrian safety improvements project, there would be modifications that would affect the traffic and pedestrian study areas. The proposal to close Schermerhorn Street to vehicular traffic between 3rd and Flatbush Avenues would divert eastbound Schermerhorn Street right turn traffic onto the eastbound Lafayette Avenue approach or to other intersections. This improvement would obviate the need to analyze the Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Avenue intersection for the traffic study. The proposal to install a signalized crosswalk crossing Flatbush Avenue at the north leg of State Street would require the pedestrian analysis of that new crosswalk, the northwest and southwest corners of State Street and Flatbush Avenue, and the crosswalk across State Street at Flatbush Avenue. The area east of Flatbush Avenue is a plaza and would not need to be analyzed in the pedestrian study. Although the closure of Schermerhorn Street to vehicular traffic between 3rd Avenue and Flatbush Avenue and the signalization of State Street at Flatbush Avenue is not being proposed by the co-applicants, this chapter will evaluate transportation conditions with and without the DOT-proposed projects in the No Action condition to cover the worst-case condition, which was determined to be the condition with the diversion of traffic volumes onto State Street and Atlantic Avenue, after accounting for traffic circulation patterns and the proposed changes to intersection geometries. Based on the detailed assignment of pedestrian trips and in consultation with DOT considering the above described proposed pedestrian safety improvements, 8 sidewalks, 9 corner reservoirs, and 10 crosswalks were recommended for detailed analysis of weekday peak hour conditions, as summarized in Table 11-9 and Figure 11-8. 11-12 2/5/2018 HOYT ST ELM PL Albee Square 0 34 23 0 0 ECF 80 FLATBUSH AVENUE 0 0 0 26 72 30 19 Project Site BOND ST 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 10 LIVINGSTON ST DEAN ST HANOVER PL 15 87 10 35 45 57 101 PACIFIC ST 4 5 SCHERMERHORN ST GROVE PL 8 0 F 0 L A T 0 B 0 U S 0 H A V E 0 146 0 E X T E N 12 S I 0 O 0 N 15 101 0 0 0 0 10 8 101 0 101 0 0 101 0 ATLANTIC AVE 8 0 0 101 8 STATE ST STATE 8 0 45 0 NEVINS ST 0 0 0 0 0 AVE HUDSON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pacific North 47 0 0 16 0 Plgd 156 4 0 49 6 Sycamores 0 0 Playground Sixteen 0 175 0 0 16 0 57 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 47 3 0 57 ROCKWELL PL ROCKWELL 4 1 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 FLATBUSH AVE FLATBUSH 0 3 3 ST FULTON 203 229 0 Seating 3 230 Ashland 37 Place POPS 0 6 1 Area 2 53 0 18 195 3 AVE 0 0 0 0 0 51 63 Community Garden 0 Place Bears 3 Rockwell 0 2 7 20 43 0 122 0 3 6 43 391 42 57 0 0 37 0 513 0 for a NewTheatre Audience 36 153 0 0 0 338 51 0 371 0 36 33 24 300 Ashland 3 Place Plaza 15 116 PL ASHLAND 1 6 154 0 0 291 ST FELIX ST FELIX ST 50 128 199 377 109 L A F A Y E 0 T T E 128 A V E 369 140 98 236 111 4 AVE 144 4 AVE 2025 Proposed Project Incremental Pedestrian Trips 144 98 9 24 106 S SOUTH ELLIOTT PL ELLIOTT SOUTH 228 O U T H P O R T L Fowler A Square N D AV E FT GREENE PL GREENE FT 13 85 HANSON PL 0 Weekday AM Peak Hour 400 FEET Figure 11-5 2/5/2018 HOYT ST ELM PL Albee Square 0 9 9 0 0 ECF 80 FLATBUSH AVENUE 0 0 0 25 19 8 7 Project Site BOND ST 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 LIVINGSTON ST DEAN ST HANOVER PL 4 22 4 29 -1 10 PACIFIC ST 8 -1 15 SCHERMERHORN ST GROVE PL 14 0 F 0 L A T 0 B 0 U S 0 H A V E 0 0 E X 7 T E N 13 S I 0 O 0 N 4 8 0 0 0 0 14 4 8 0 0 8 0 0 ATLANTIC AVE 14 0 14 0 STATE ST STATE 14 0 33 0 26 8 NEVINS ST 0 0 0 0 0 AVE HUDSON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pacific North 0 0 0 Plgd 3 2 6 31 0 41 2 Sycamores 0 0 Playground Sixteen 0 27 0 2 0 0 33 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 27 16 0 33 ROCKWELL PL ROCKWELL 6 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 16 ST FULTON FLATBUSH AVE FLATBUSH 0 1 34 230 Ashland Seating 10 70 Place POPS 0 3 1 47 Area 2 0 112 0 0 3 AVE 0 29 0 0 7 36 Community Garden 0 Place Bears 33 Rockwell 0 -8 0 2 21 0 8 0 33 3 21 100 15 14 0 0 12 0 112 0 for a NewTheatre Audience 12 48 0 0 0 160 67 0 207 0 11 11 3 300 Ashland 1 Place Plaza 55 37 PL ASHLAND 1 3 355 0 0 303 ST