The city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has installed a traffic signal at 86^th Street and Bay 10^th Street, after Assemblyman William Colton (D—Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Dyker Heights) requested that the intersection be studied.

Assemblyman Colton reached out to the DOT about the intersection after he was contacted by constituents concerned about the potential for accidents there, a T intersection that also has an entry/exit ramp from a busy shopping center parking lot funneling traffic directly into the busy street. In addition, just a couple of hundred feet along 86^th Street, there is a second parking lot feeding cars into the thoroughfare on the opposite side of 86^th Street.

“I am delighted that the Department of Transportation saw the importance of adding a traffic light to the intersection, and acted so quickly to install it after the required study was completed,” said Assemblyman Colton. “Having traffic controls at the intersection will make it safer for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.”

Besides the signal light controlling the intersection, there are four button-activated pedestrian signals. In addition, a separate signal controlling the exit from the supermarket parking lot changes from steady red, requiring all cars leaving the parking lot to remain stopped, to flashing red, allowing the cars to proceed with caution into the roadway, where they can turn left or right, or continue across to enter Bay 10^th Street.