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UWS Residents Roiled Over Bus Warnings as Community Board Seeks to End to Free Parking

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By: Renaldo Kotkin

“Caution, bus is turning” a robotic voice warns pedestrians whenever NYC Transit vehicles make a left- or right-hand turn, and Upper West Side residents can’t take it anymore!!

“It’s noise pollution, and our quality of life is deteriorating because of this,” fumed Jeff Weissman of West 72nd Street, who charges 72nd and West End is “ground zero” for the “24/7” safety messages that are “making life miserable”, the New York Post quoted in a recent article.

NYC Transit first implemented the Pedestrian Turn Warnings in December 2016 as part of a pilot program in support of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative, aimed at reducing traffic deaths. Approximately 1,200 of the 5,700 buses are equipped with the new technology, which cost $20 million, according to the N.Y Post.

The annoyed elitist Jeff Weismann plastered “Help us … (or else)” flyers on neighborhood bus shelters and light poles imploring residents to call their community board and City Council member. “We can stop it now before they install it on every bus!” the flyer reads.

The average price of a co-op in the UWS is $1,288,300 according to Zillow. The median list price per square foot in Upper West Side is $1,463, which is higher than the New York average of $673.

The N.Y Post reported: “Sleep and quietude are essential to our well-being,” chimed in Weissman’s neighbor, Alice, a meditation and yoga instructor, who added their building has “a number of new parents” who are already “sleep-deprived.” She suggested the city “explore other solutions.”

According to the Post, who sent out a reporter to the area, he camped out at the Columbus Avenue corner Wednesday afternoon could barely hear the alert, which did not always go off.

Meanwhile the popular blog called “West side rag” reported that community members of the UWS are debating over free parking spaces in the area. The blog reported Community Board 7 Transportation Committee are convinced that allowing people to park at the curb for free is a bad use of public space.

The blog continued: “As a follow up to October’s controversial forum on curbside use, the committee revisited a resolution they passed earlier this year, which called for the city to “discontinue the policy of providing free parking for private cars,” in consideration of “more productive and equitable uses of curbside space”

There seems to be disagreements among the wealthy UWS populous regarding this resolution. The resolution was amended to requests that the city “assess and analyze the policy of providing free parking for private cars,” (as opposed to discontinuing the practice outright), “and consider whether there are more productive and equitable uses of curbside space,” (as opposed to suggesting that all alternative curbside uses are inherently more productive than free parking).

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