Starting next week, cars will be completely banned in Prospect Park. This two-month pilot program, which city officials said Monday.
The movement of vehicles through Prospect Park will be banned from July 17. A similar ban already operates in the Western part of the Park on West Drive in 2015.
Currently the movement of vehicles is allowed on the East Drive just North during rush hour from 7 am to 9 am. But very soon this possibility for drivers will not. Park area will be completely pedestrian. In the Park can move freely only one form of transport – a Bicycle. In the morning darling, which runs through the Park, use at least 300 motorists. At the same time cross the Park to 1,000 pedestrians and cyclists.
«Cyclists, joggers and pedestrians, young and old, can rejoice in the next few warm months a more secure and peaceful Park,» said DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg in his statement on Monday.
City officials said that came to the decision after receiving numerous requests from local residents and local officials about the extension of the ban on movement of vehicles with West Drive in the Park especially in the summer.
In DOT say they will use a two-month pilot program to study how the closure of East Drive affects the northbound traffic on the streets adjacent to the Park. However, currently there are no specific plans for the extension of the ban on vehicular traffic on East Drive after September 11.
