Hey MTA, How About Shoveling the Sidewalk?

Why would the MTA fail to shovel around the bustop and around its corner parking lot at Empire Boulevard & Flatbush Avenue? One of most pedestrian-heavy stretches in our neighborhood? Good question!

As of this morning, stretches of the sidewalk near the transit hub--a popular footpath to the Prospect Park Zoo, Botanic Gardens, and Crown Heights--remained a slippery, icy mess.

Here are a few photos and comments, courtesy of local correspondent Jeanne O.

"Here is a giant snow mound blocking the sidewalk outside of the Wendy's on Flatbush, next to the bus stop. It seems like the MTA shoveled out the bus stop and put the snow on the sidewalk."

"Here is the sidewalk outside the NYCT parking lot at Flatbush and Empire. It was not shoveled at all. It is a huge mound of ice now totally covering the entire sidewalk there and along Ocean on that side."

The southwest corner of Flatbush & Empire, looking north. "We tried to get to the zoo and barely made it because the intersection is so difficult to pass [with a stroller] at Empire."

Comments

[Carmen]

So glad you posted this as I was stopped dead in my tracks this afternoon once I got to Empire. More shoddy work by the city.

[Jeanne]

I took these pictures. The poor woman crossing that snow mound after getting off the bus (who was in her 60s) thanked me for taking the picture saying she's glad there are people willing to do something. One thing about all the snow and ice in the crosswalk (the last photo) - it's not passable really even without a stroller. Not by an elderly person and not without real risk of falling down, at any age. Falling into a busy dangerous intersection is not good.

[ferienwohnung spanien]

It's great that you have posted this post with the pics that should be an eyeopener for the PWD departments...Yeah its true that when ever it snows it becomes difficult to walk on the slippery road...It may cause injury too...I appreciate your work...