DEIS selectively complies with the City Environmental Quality Review Manual
DEIS process is premature and must be supplemented with a Supplemental DEIS
Study area too small, excludes other major development and problem areas
Baseline traffic volumes and conditions give misleading picture of available capacity
Future volumes are low because the DEIS leaves out 53% growth in 2016 Build year
Dubious basis of Atlantic Yards trip characteristics may misrepresent auto trips
DEIS ignores impact on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and parallel streets
Impacts concealed by combining street closing diversions with Atlantic Yards trips
Calculations of congestion levels are undocumented, no way to check huge anomalies
Simplistic analysis method misrepresents severity and extent of congestion impacts
Models that more accurately simulate traffic are critical part of DEIS but not released
Proposed mitigation still leaves Downtown Brooklyn road network in gridlock
Proposed changes in traffic patterns redirect traffic through neighborhoods
Transit and parking incentives to reduce Arena traffic are naïve and won’t work
Effective traffic mitigation—congestion pricing and better transit--are ignored
Parking –Early Findings: missing elements; misrepresentating on-street parking
Pedestrians get longer waits and routes, less crossing time, no traffic calming
Unsubstantiated claim of sufficient capacity on subways is shown to be wrong
Low bus use and growth defy historical trends, lead to ignoring Bus Rapid Transit
DEIS stacks the deck against lower density alternatives
Overall, the DEIS misrepresents and utterly fails to disclose or mitigate costly transportation impacts that can only be remedied by an openly developed supplemental DEIS