Starting next week, the Department of Transportation is accepting applications for streets that should be mostly closed off to vehicular traffic, allowing for socially distanced walking and recreation.

On Monday, residents can begin applying on the agency’s website to have barriers put up on a street in their neighborhood, an expansion of the city’s Slow Streets program in three parks.

Temporary signs that read “Road Closed: Local Traffic Only” will be placed on selected streets. Drivers will be allowed on the roads that are eventually designated as Slow Streets if their destination is within two blocks of that street, DOT said.

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