Honk if You Want a Whole Foods!

Carroll Gardens Diary has parsed the study prepared for Whole Foods analyzing the traffic conditions anticipated after the grocer’s build in Gowanus (and uploaded the entire document here). The study concludes that the supermarket won’t have a huge effect on pedestrian traffic to the area, or put too much of an extra burden on public transit. However, Carroll Gardens Diary takes note that traffic is expected to get gnarlier on 3rd Street. The blog observes that the proposed improvements for alleviating the extra traffic that will come to the area mainly involve implementing a bunch of changes at the 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue intersection, such as new striping on crosswalks and signal interval adjustments, and is not impressed: “They are not proposing any significant pedestrian, bicycle, transit or other improvements. Surely, the intersection could use some bus shelters, new bike lanes, pedestrian safety islands or other improvements that, oh, I don’t know, could cost money?” Next week Community Board 6 will have a public hearing about Whole Foods’ plans, which require a variance from the BSA to move forward.
Analyzing the Whole Foods Traffic Study [Carroll Gardens Diary]