Brooklyn’s treacherous Atlantic Avenue will be the first of 25 major city roads to have its speed limit reduced from 30 mph to 25 mph, officials announced Wednesday.
As part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” push to end traffic deaths, the DOT will also re-time traffic lights on Atlantic Avenue so law-abiding drivers will hit more green lights than speeders.
The other 24 roads getting reduced speed limits will be announced in the next few weeks, they said.
Atlantic Avenue — a 7.6-mile stretch that runs from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights to Richmond Hill in Queens — was the site of 25 traffic fatalities between 2008 and 2012, including 13 pedestrian deaths.