“We were really all dumbfounded,” says Alia McKee, a member of the Fort Green Open Streets coalition. “Volunteers were completely bereft — many of us had invested nearly two years of our volunteer efforts advocating for and championing the open street.”
“We were really all dumbfounded,” she said. “Volunteers were completely bereft — many of us had invested nearly two years of our volunteer efforts advocating for and championing the open street.”
She also worried about safety, with no notice being posted the barricades were coming down. Further, the Willoughby Avenue Open Street has become a thoroughfare for students at P.S. 20, and crossing guards had no notice of the street being open to traffic again.On Thursday night, the Department of Transportation called the removal of the open street a “miscommunication.”
Photo on left taken on Thursday afternoon, photo on right taken on Thursday evening - the "do not enter" sign was added backed on Thursday night.Photo on left taken on Thursday afternoon, photo on right taken on Thursday evening - the "do not enter" sign was added backed on Thursday night.A spokesperson for the mayor’s office declined to say who in the mayor’s office requested the Open Street be closed, and returned to traffic.
“If someone in my office carries out an action that didn’t come from me of that magnitude, I’m going to make the decision instantly on how to reverse it,” Adams said. “If I felt it should be open I’d have made a public announcement. How the miscommunication happened doesn’t matter to me, the street is now back.”
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