From The Villager
New Broome St. signs
November 09, 2000
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The city Department of Transportation recently put up new signs at the intersection of Broome and Lafayette Sts. in Soho to help clear up confusion over truck routes. The two new signs, visible to trucks driving Downtown on Lafayette St., tell truckers that right turns onto Broome St. are illegal except for trucks making local deliveries. Soho residents in the area have long complained that truckers illegally use Broome St. - instead of Houston or Canal Sts. - as an east-west route from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Holland Tunnel, and that signs D.O.T. put up were causing confusion or, at worst, that D.O.T. was trying to turn Broome St. into a major truck route. Two other signs designating Lafayette St. a "thru" truck route and Broome St. a local truck route, were left in place underneath the new signs. State Senator Tom Duane, Carl Rosenstein - head of the Soho-based Trees Not Trucks group - and several members of Community Board 2 recently met with Iris Weinshall, new D.O.T. commissioner, to discuss truck enforcement at the intersection. Councilmember Kathryn Freed also met separately with Weinshall.
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