Community Board 6 To Vote On Fourth Avenue Bike Lane Plan

PARK SLOPE, NY — Community Board 6 will vote on the city's plan to install protected bike lanes along a stretch of Fourth Avenue at their Wednesday night meeting.

UPDATE: The board nearly unanimously voted to approve the plan at the meeting.

The board's transportation previously approved the plan but urged the Department of Transportation to quicken the timeline to install the lanes on Fourth Avenue between Eighth and Dean streets with Councilman Brad Lander.

The proposals calls to build a parking-protected bike lane along Fourth Avenue that would connect Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Park Slope and Downtown Brooklyn. The city would remove about four parking spaces per block along the stretch for them and turn the parking lane from 38th Street to Prospect Avenue into a driving one during rush hours, according to the DOT.

Click here to view the DOT's full presentation on the plan.

The city would use lower cost materials to build the lanes on 27 blocks near 38th Street in the spring, but the timeline is longer for the rest because they're waiting on the full reconstruction of Fourth Avenue by the Department of Design and Construction, Streetsblog reported.

Park Slope would only get seven lanes within the next three years and construction between Carroll Street and Atlantic Avenue wouldn't start until 2021.

Community Board 6's transportation committee unanimously approved the plan last month but added a measure calling on the DOT to quicken the pace of the project. The full board is set to vote on it at their monthly meeting at the Cobble Hill Health Center, 380 Henry St., which starts at 6:30 p.m.

Neighboring Community Board 7's transportation committee also already approved the plan last month, but pushed back their full board vote until their January meeting when more members would be in attendance.

Image: New York City Department of Transportation