Many cars speed through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park well over the speed limit of 25 mph, and now a team of students want to control that problem.

“Ninety percent of the cars are going past the speed limit,” said youth advocate Michael Cheng.

The students have clocked over 500 cars for Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit group aimed at reducing car traffic and promoting better cycling, walking and public transit.

The summer interns have been staging a number of events, including the clocking of speeding motorists to encourage park users and residents to lobby the city to get rid of car traffic in the park.

“Our main goal is to actually get a car-free park and I believe we can do it,” said youth advocate Farah Karimova.

“It's really outrageous that children have to worry about crossing the street in a park because of cars coming,” said youth advocate Kelena Matthews.

The youth say their findings show that cars in Prospect Park are a major problem waiting to happen.

“Given all the pedestrian traffic we have in the park -- all the seniors, all the children, all the people jogging and on bicycles, we cannot have cars driving 40 miles an hour in Prospect Park,” said Wiley Norvell, the community director of Transportation Alternatives. “It's just a ticking time bomb really waiting for some serious injury or fatality.”

In addition to speeding, the students claim to have also caught numerous cars driving on closed park drives.

“The park is not for, you know, cars. The park was made for people to have fun and relax,” said youth advocate Oswald Bowman.

Prospect’s Park administrator agrees with such sentiments, and told NY1 that first and foremost the park is a recreational space. However, the administrator said that she has not noticed a speeding problem and believes the police are enforcing park rules.

The administrator went on to say the total of four hours that the park drives are open to cars each day helps ease backup traffic in the surrounding community.

A NYPD spokesman told NY1 that the police do enforce park drive hours and speed limits, citing over 60 summons issued over the last couple of weeks. The spokesman added that of the seven accidents in the park over the last couple of months, the only accident involving a car was between two motorized vehicles.

Nevertheless, the students are bound to prevent cars continue to speed along park drives. They met with city council members to rally their support to help make Prospect Park car-free in 2009.

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