DEIS: Traffic concerns; New loading areas

NEW LOADING AREAS

Draft EIS states:

...service vehicles would park off-street in a secured service drive between the north side of the proposed stadium and proposed parking Garage B, and River and Jerome Avenues.

The proposed stadium would have a secured service drive between the north side of the proposed stadium and Parking Garage B, which would provide several loading docks for food service deliveries, team and other deliveries, and trash storage and pickup. Access to this secured driveway would be from River and Jerome Avenues. Team parking for private cars and buses would be located within the building and would
have a designated access off River Avenue. In addition, the proposed stadium would provide space in the loading area for 10 large mobile media trucks with hookups.

Truck and bus loading and operation of service vehicles have been removed from public streets.

Response:

The service drive is a good idea in that it will take trucks that currently idle on the street off the street and out of everyone’s way.

The bus loading area should also include space for NYC Transit buses to drop off passengers on game days in front of the stadium. The Yankees should work with NYC Transit to encourage the use of express buses to games from the further reaches of the city (Staten Island, for example) to further cut down on traffic impacts.