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Join Us : Bus terminal update and input on neighborhood plan
[ April 3, 2018; 12:30 am to 8:30 pm. ] This is the meeting you do not want to miss: the Hell’s Kitchen South Coalition will give an update on the Port Authority plans and unveil its own plan for redeveloping the district.
Posted in CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Events, Transit
Tagged buses, PANYNJ, pedestrian, safety
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TAKE ACTION to get Congestion Pricing NOW!
Last week, hundreds rallied in front of Governor Cuomo’s New York office to ask for better transit and to pass congestion pricing now! Our neighborhood could be one of the biggest winner from Congestion Pricing: Less cars, Less gridlock , less idling , less emissions.
But you need to act NOW for Governor Cuomo to include Congestion pricing [...]
HOLD the Date: Port Authority Update and Neighborhood Plan
[ April 3, 2018; 6:01 pm to 8:01 pm. ] On April 3rd, 6:00 p.m. the Hell’s Kitchen South Coalition will give an update of the Port Authority Bus Project, and everyone will get an opportunity to comment on a proposed neighborhood plan.
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, Clean Air, Congestion, Events, Greening, Transit
Tagged buses, PANYNJ, park-plaza, Street Design
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Progress Report
The Department of Transportation tells us they are studying the following dangerous areas we had been flagging for years:
60th Street and 9th Avenue
57th Street and 8th Avenue
42nd Street and 8th Avenue
DOT is also working on a summer/ fall 2018 schedule to actually convert 11th Avenue to one way , with bike lane and bus platforms [...]
Posted in CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, pedestrian
Tagged bicycles, buses, pedestrian, safety, Street Design
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10th Avenue Bike Lane, Street Seats and Crashmapper
[ March 21, 2018; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Join us at the Manhattan Community Board 4 Transportation Committee to share your comments and opinions on these topics and more..
Manhattan Community Board 4 – Transportation Committee
Wednesday, March 21st, 6:30 p.m.
The Flats, 554 West 53rd Street (10/11)
The meeting will be followed by the first meeting of the ADA Working group .
Tracking Traffic Crashes, Trends and Vision Zero progress in New York City
Crashmapper.org a web-based app, developed by CHEKPEDS was launched in New York City, on February 28, 2018. The application received very positive reviews from Streetsblog “ This Is the Tool You Need to Push for Safer Streets in Your Part of NYC”. A reputed transportation consultant calls it ” a fantastic tool” and even some DOT employees find [...]
Thousands ask for better enforcement – DiBlasio punts to Albany
Following the tragic death of two very young children in the pedestrian crossing with the walk light, at the hands of a driver who had previously accumulated 8 violations, and had had a seizure, over 900 activists gathered in Brooklyn to demand better street design and better enforcement.
Joshua Lew and Abigail Blumenstein, aged 1 and [...]
Stop the MTA from reducing service on the M104
[ March 19, 2018; 10:30 am to 11:30 am. ] The MTA and NYC Transit has proposed bus service cuts to the M104 line. Assemblymember Rosenthal wrote a letter to NYC Transit President Andrew Byford requesting the cuts be halted.
Protest M104 Service Cuts
Monday, March 19. 10:30 a.m.
MTA Board, 2 Broadway, 20th Floor (Whitehall/ Broad) (4,5 W,R ,55,15,20)
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Join Us to end MTA vows and Traffic congestion
[ March 20, 2018; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Rally to Demand Congestion Pricing NOW
Tuesday, March 20. 6-7:00 p.m.
633 Third Avenue (40/41) , Gov Cuomo NY office
Subways are in a state of emergency. Just last week, an aging cable at the West 96th Street station caused a massive track fire that crippled commutes. Between this dysfunctional subway system, buses that move at walking speeds, [...]
Posted in CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Congestion, Events
Tagged congestion pricing, MTA, policy, traffic
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Join our State Representatives: Finding Solutions to our Transportation Crisis
[ March 1, 2018; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]
