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Stop the AECOM Fence

Stop the AECOM Fence

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Started by Anonymous 18 years, 1 month ago
Without student input the DOT and campus architects have decided to put a barrier through the heart of our nascent campus with a 4-foot iron fence. This will force students and employees to cross at the dangerous intersection of Morris Park Avenue and Eastchester Road. Instead of allowing students to cross at the safest location, where the cars and the pedestrians can see one another and react accordingly, we will be funneled to cross at the dangerous edge of the street, in the blind spot of all the vehicles. While the new light between Forchheimer and Price might be helpful to pedestrians, many of the residents who commute daily across Morris Park Avenue will choose to cross down by Eastchester, as it\'s closer to the Belfer building. Many faculty who work in Belfer will also take this dangerous route to their parking lot. They\'ve constructed a small and inadequate pedestrian refuge without bollards along this route that\'s completely vulnerable. As students who cross this street every day and have experience with dangerous turning cars, we are concerned that we\'re being funneled to a dangerous area where neither the pedestrians nor the cars will have the time to react. Either the fence must not be installed in order to make the crossing safer, or the pedestrian refuge at the edge of Morris Park Ave and Eastchester Road must be enlarged and protected with bollards and planters in order to protect the vulnerable pedestrians from turning cars and buses. Funneling pedestrians to a dangerous intersection is not sound policy for street use.

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Kevin Donnelly
18 years ago Featured

Just put some bollards in. Simple fix to keep people from getting hit. Why is this so hard??

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Maria Hardy
18 years ago Featured

way too dangerous. someone is going to get hurt.

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David Kelly
18 years ago Featured

Fix the refuge or scrap the fence. We need more than just space, we need actual protection from the buses.

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Jessica Griffin
18 years ago Featured

Seriously??? Nobody asked us about this. It feels like they dont care about our safety at all.

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Sarah Chopra
18 years ago Featured

i walk this way every single day and it is already a nightmare with the turning traffic. adding a fence is just asking for an accident to happen. bad idea.

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Mike Reddy
18 years ago Featured

This makes zero sense. Why put a fence up that literally funnels us into a blind spot? So stupid.

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