The city reduced car hours in Central Park but made no change to the car hours in Propsect Park. What gives and what does Markowitz have to do with it.

The Daily
News reports that Brooklyn transportation activists like Park Slope
Neighbors and Streetsblog are up in arms. Here’s an excerpt from the
Daily News story. Read more here.

Advocates charge the city’s policies involving cars in the two parks
were already unfair to Brooklyn and that the latest changes made the
discrepancy worse.

Markowitz spokeswoman Laura Sinagra said the borough president was
never given a formal proposal to sign off on but that his long-standing
position remains unchanged.

"Our historical position has been that further limiting hours would
result in unacceptable traffic backup," Markowitz said in a statement.
"The current hours are appropriate to the needs of the many in our
borough who must rely on these roads to get to work and school."

The flareup is the latest round in the ongoing battle among some
neighborhood and transportation groups to ban cars altogether in both
parks.

In Brooklyn, members of Community Board 14, which includes Midwood
and Flatbush, have vehemently opposed banning cars from the park for
congestion reasons.