Hi All,

Below is a message from DOT Queens Deputy Commissioner Jason Banrey regarding the one-way street proposal for northern Maspeth.

Please note that the accident data provided to us by NYPD below for approximately three years is much higher than DOT's statistics for five years.

We are hopeful this information will be helpful when Community Board 5's Transportation Committee holds their Public Hearing.

Roe Daraio, President
COMET Civic Association
www.cometcivic.com

Good afternoon,
 
DOT has conducted an evaluation of street directional changes in Maspeth, Queens. The proposed changes are to address safety concerns due to narrow widths of the streets in the area. The proposal would create an alternating street grid network and help in reducing vehicle/pedestrian, vehicle/vehicle conflicts as well as reduce congestion and grid lock intersections. Here is a link to the proposal:http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/maspeth-area-wide-mar2018.pdf
 
Additionally here is a link to the agency’s the Vision Zero Map: https://www.nycvzv.info Here, folks can look up crash data, street designs, street speed limits and details about the agency’s outreach.
 
NYC Street Permit Management :https://nycstreets.net/public/permit/search Here folks can look up active permits at specified locations by entering in the address, location or permit number.
 
DOT Customer Service Request Page:http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/contact/customer-service.shtml Here folks can make requests for speed humps, traffic signals, signal timing inspections etc. If a request is entered within the Maspeth area where this project proposal’s parameters please feel free to flag them directly with our office to incorporate into our analysis.
 
Vision Zero Input Map: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/visionzero/maps-data/maps-data.page The Vision Zero map public input period concluded on July 31, 2014. NYCDOT is now analyzing the over 10,000 comments submitted and shown here for inclusion in the City's Vision Zero borough safety action plans which will be released later this year. Here you can see feedback the feedback that was provided by neighbors in your area.
 
Please let us know if you have any questions and please feel free to share this information as well as my contact information with folks in the community.
 
Jason Banrey
Deputy Borough Commissioner
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NYPD Accident Data

In regards to your inquiry I did some research and found 19 accidents in the vicinity of Calamus Ave (6 in the 104 PCT and 13 in the 108 PCT).

For the grid of 71 St to 74 St, Grand Ave to 51 Ave I found 119 accidents.  (80 in the 104 PCT and 39 in the 108 PCT)

I went from 2015 to present because a majority of the accident reports on DAS Lite prior to then have incomplete information or do not appear in the system at all.  Any accident from approximately March 15, 2016 onward is available digitally on the FORMS database.