"Construction needed to improve the water in the polluted canal will disrupt the quality of life of residents living two neighborhood away, thanks to the city’s $50-million rehabilitation of a “flushing tunnel” that runs from the top of the filthy canal to the Buttermilk Channel between Brooklyn and Governors Island.That and an $85-million upgrade of an adjacent wastewater pumping station in the Canal zone will mean road work for the next three years at several key intersections.
At Columbia Street and Tiffany Place, blocks way from the top of the canal, the project has already “been very disruptive to the neighborhood,” said Tiffany Place resident Mina Roustayi. “I understand the environmental reasons for it, but I’m concerned with the parking — we’ve already lost 10-13 spaces.”"
The disruption is regrettable, but the ends justify the means. And please, shut up about parking spaces. Why must bike lanes, clean waterways and sensible transit policy be constantly opposed by those who need their parking spaces on their block?
Also, all the homes throughout the Gowanus watershed are parking their poop in the canal and have been doing so for decades. The sewage that flows into the canal is not just from the blocks around the canal, but most of it comes from many blocks away.
ReplyDeleteA temporary loss of parking spaces is a lot less to ask of other neighborhoods to help reduce the level of poop being parked in the canal.