COBBLE HILL — Businesses along Court Street in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to stop the implementation of the redesign of Court Street from Schermerhorn Street to Hamilton Avenue, which they say has been causing traffic jams and unsafe conditions since it rolled out over the last several weeks.

“We filed an order to show cause to get [the Department of Transportation] to stop implementing the redesign and remove what they have done so far,” an attorney hired by the Court Street Merchants Association, who did not wish to be named at this time, told the Brooklyn Eagle on Friday.

The new design puts a “buffered-by-parking” bike lane against the curb along the east side of Court Street, and reduces the road from two lanes to one lane, southbound. It i

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