Abreu asks DOT about permanent school street swing gates for LTNs
Abreu asks whether permanent school street swing gates could be used for low-traffic neighborhoods. DOT says swing gates have potential, it wants to evaluate the first use, and if successful it could scale them up.
DLT recently announced the first permanent school street with swing gates to block vehicle traffic during the school day.
Thank you for the invitation to that.
Sorry I couldn't make it.
I thought it was very cool looking at the photos.
Does DLT have plans to expand the use of this infrastructure?
infrastructure and could these gates be a viable option for low traffic neighborhoods throughout the city?
I think it has a lot of potential.
You know, I think what we've seen when we're starting new programs and as we're kind of evolving our toolkit, it's a big, complex city.
And so things need to be kind of, I guess, for lack of a better term, battle tested, you know, or tested on the ground because it.
New York does put a lot of demands on infrastructure in terms of, you know, withstanding things.
So in the case of school streets and other open streets, we've seen historically the use of what we call French barricades, these movable fences.
Those have some advantages, but they also have some challenges, right, in terms of storage and maintenance and who's moving it.
I think a swing gate has a lot of potential.
We want to evaluate this first use.
See how it works, and if it works, then it would be great to scale it up.