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Curb Cuts
Curb cuts are ramps cut into sidewalks that allow wheeled vehicles to pass smoothly from curb to street. When installed at intersection corners, curb cuts are helpful for those in wheelchairs and pedestrians with strollers or suitcases. However, residential curb cuts built for off-street parking entrances disrupt the sidewalk. Driveways that cut across the sidewalk are a significant hazard for pedestrians.
Residential Curb Cuts are bad because they:
- Expose pedestrians - especially children shorter than cars - to moving traffic;
- Allow driving on sidewalks;
- Encourage parking on sidewalks;
- Make pedestrians feel more vulnerable;
- Facilitate driving and short trips;
- Create inactive sidewalks with limited transparency on ground floors;
- Subsidize car parking;
- Remove valuable public right-of-way from being used for trees, planting, pedestrian amenities, bike parking or safe social gathering and play;
- Arbitrarily remove on-street parking spaces from the public;
- Are sooo suburban and ugly!
- Create a cycle of “blight” where more people want to drive to feel safe and comfortable because streets are dangerous and ugly, so they drive more and make NYC streets more unsafe, uncomfortable and ugly.
ALSO ON THE LIVABLE STREETS NETWORK
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