{"id":3435,"date":"2008-05-12T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2008-05-12T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:52:41","slug":"because_of_course_you_take_the_bus_to_ikea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/because_of_course_you_take_the_bus_to_ikea.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Of Course You Take The Bus To IKEA . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05122008\/news\/regionalnews\/ikea_goes_to_se_a_in_bklyn_110550.htm\">There&#8217;s a reason you wait until the last minute to publicly address traffic and parking concerns<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>IKEA officials yesterday revealed plans for how they plan to pacify Red Hook, Brooklyn once thousands of shoppers start heading there daily on June 18 when the Swedish home-furniture giant opens its first New York City store on the Beard Street waterfront. <\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the transportation improvements arranged specifically for the new IKEA is free water-taxi service to and from lower Manhattan. <\/p>\n<p>The service, to be provided by New York Water Taxi, will run every 40 minutes during store hours, said store manager Mike Baker. Water taxis will dock along a 6.5-acre public esplanade that IKEA had to build behind the store to help garner elected officials&#8217; support for the controversial $100 million project.<\/p>\n<p>Other transit improvements will include beefed-up bus service and free shuttle service connecting to the three closest subway stops, which are still over a mile away.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Red Hook itself is fenced off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and even the nearest highway entrance on the BQE is over a mile away from the 346,000-square-foot store.<\/p>\n<p>IKEA is offering 1,400 parking spots, although the project&#8217;s environmental impact statement estimates about 14,000 cars arriving on Saturdays. [Red Hook Civic Alliance co-chair John] McGettrick says he believes it will actually be 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>But IKEA spokesman Joseph Roth said he expects most New Yorkers to leave their cars home and use the new transit options.<\/p>\n<p>For example, IKEA is offering free shuttle service every ten minutes from three subway stations: Borough Hall\/Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn, Smith\/9th Street in Carroll Gardens, and 4th Avenue\/9th Street in Gowanus.<\/p>\n<p>And the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is extending the B61 and B77 bus routes to stop directly in front of the store.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason you wait until the last minute to publicly address traffic and parking concerns: IKEA officials yesterday revealed plans for how they plan to pacify Red Hook, Brooklyn once thousands of shoppers start heading there daily on June 18 when the Swedish home-furniture giant opens its first New York City store on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}