Liberty Avenue Congested Corridor Study

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This section of Liberty Avenue, from Woodhaven Boulevard to the Van Wyck Expressway, runs east-west through the Ozone Park and South Richmond Hill neighborhoods of Queens. Beyond the study area, Liberty Avenue continues east to Jamaica Center, and west to Brooklyn. Along most of the study area, the elevated structure of the A subway line dominated the avenue. There are stations at Rockaway Boulevard/96th Street, 103rd Street, 111th Street and Lefferts Boulevard, where the line ends. The corridor is served by MTA bus route Q112, and is intersected by routes Q7, Q9, Q10, Q11, Q21, Q37, Q41 (at two locations) and Q53, and by express routes QM 15, QM 18 and X64. At the eastern end of the section DOT is studying, ramps lead on and off the Van Wyck Expressway. The avenue is a lined by storefronts and busy with pedestrians, especially around Lefferts Boulevard. The road has one travel lane and one parking lane in each direction, so it is easily affected by double parking, typically by commercial vehicles.

There are 27 signalized and 23 unsignalized intersections along the stretch of Liberty Avenue to be studied. Almost all the north-south streets that intersect this section of Liberty Avenue are single-lane one-way residential streets. The exceptions are 111th Street, Lefferts Boulevard, the north leg of 123rd Street and the south legs of 133rd and 134th Streets, which are two-way, and the north legs of 120th, 121st and 124th Streets, which, though one-way, are wider than the other one-way north-south streets. The north-south streets from 106th street to 110th Street are offset on either side of Liberty Avenue, causing safety and mobility issues for vehicles traveling through on those streets. The same condition exists, to varying degrees, for most of the north-south streets east of Lefferts Boulevard.

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