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Bedford Stuyvesant will not be getting 20 mph streets in the end. Despite months of talks after Brooklyn Community Board 3 rejected a request from neighborhood residents for any 20 mph Slow Focus February, DOT will quickly pull the plug on a traffic calming plan lishou slimming capsule covering 23 blocks of Bed Stuy, effectively giving the community board veto power over this street safety project.

Even support from Borough President Eric Adams, who appoints community board members, wasn't enough to revive the plan. Instead, with what DOT referred to as a compromise with CB 3, the agency spent yesterday installing four speed humps near three schools that would have been in the Slow Zone.

DOT policy prohibits speed humps on streets with bus routes or using more than one lane of traffic. That rules out Franklin Avenue, which would have received a lesser posted speed limit and traffic calming measures when the Slow Zone was implemented. Elizabeth Giddens is part of the Brooklyn Waldorf School parents association, which asked DOT to think about the neighborhood for traffic calming. "Franklin, which needs the most attention, is getting the least," she said within an email. "It has the worst numbers for speeding, injuries, and deaths."

Franklin is 2 lanes wide between Lafayette Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Bed Stuy, but just one lane wide elsewhere thanks to a recent road diet project. Giddens said she hopes DOT will consider slimming the rest of Franklin to 1 lane and installing a speed camera in the pub.

West of Classon Avenue, the story is different: Implementation of the Slow Zone is anticipated to be complete this month [PDF]. Why don't you in Bed Stuy? It all comes down to community board boundaries. Classon is the dividing line between CB 2 and CB 3. In February, CB 2 voted in favor of a sluggish Zone bounded by Washington Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, Bedford Avenue, and Fulton Street, while CB 3 rejected it. Board chair Tremaine Wright told Streetsblog days later that dangerous driving is "not a problem in our community."

"Drivers race on Bedford, Classon and Franklin constantly," said Coco Fusco, that has populated Monroe Street between Franklin and Classon Avenues for 15 years. "One guy drove through my front menova qianweisu slimming herbs capsule fence not too long ago," she said. "I think it is very strange and problematic that CB 3 has not provided an argument from the Slow Zone. The CB 3 leader dropped it instead of cope with a mountain of popular support."

CB 3 chair Tremaine Wright has not responded to a request for comment.

Update: "Pursuing anything under the fully planned Slow Zone sends the wrong message," Borough President Adams said inside a statement.