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While I am a vociferous critic of all local politicians and their minions, I commend the Assemblyman for noticing this and bringing it to the attention of the DOT. As a resident of VC Village, I was very aware as they were building this horrific "safety" island that it was going to do exactly the opposite of its intent, which is usually the way things go with government projects. As soon as it was completed, pedestrians stated to have to run out of the way of cars making the left turn and not realizing they were turning into oncoming traffic.

One thing not mentioned in the article is the fact that the traffic island also effectively turns two lanes coming down the hill into one and a half lanes, so cars get very close to eachother and are forced to dangerously cut eachother off, which will make it much less safe for pedestrians.

When I moved into the neighborhood in 2004, we did not have these traffic islands, or the newly installed red lights all over Goulden, Dickenson and VC South. ALL of these projects have made traffic worse, noise pollution worse with honking, and being a pedestrian more dangerous as now drivers speed up rapidly to avoid the long red lights and to make the short greens.

As the old adage goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or is it that the DOT just needs to justify its bloated existance by undertaking these illogical and unsafe projects?