NYC DOT
FORT GREENE — A city plan to ban left hand turns from Flatbush Avenue onto Myrtle Avenue in order to reduce crashes and congestion got a unanimous vote of support from Community Board 2’s Transportation Committee.
The Department of Transportation plan, which was presented to the board by the Pedestrian Projects Group on June 16, would send motorists who want to turn left onto Myrtle Avenue to turn right instead, sending them westbound on Myrtle Ave.
Drivers would have to loop around at the dead end at Duffield Street to go east on Myrtle.
Banning left turn traffic would help to "reduce conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles while improving the conditions for turning vehicles," according to the DOT.
