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Category Archives: DOT STUDY
Protected intersections will be standard on 11th Avenue bike lane
Last Month, New York City DOT gave MCB4′s Transportation Committee a comprehensive update on the roll out of a newly configured 11th Avenue, with a one-way section from 40th Street to 57th Street and two-way below 40th Street. This project is part of the DOT’ Study of Hell’s Kitchen started in 2007 at CHEKPEDS’ request [...]
Posted in CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, DOT STUDY
Tagged bicycles, buses, safety, Street Design
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Best wishes for 2019!
Dear members ,
At this time of year we’d like to reflect on our progress and stake out a few goals for 2019. There is much to like about 2018..
Focusing on Crash Data
In 2018 we launched Crashmapper.org, a web tool that received many accolades from the press, the agencies and the advocates. The tool maps and analyzes [...]
Best Wishes for 2018
2017 felt like a rotten year, but we kept our heads down and managed to accomplish a lot with the help of DOT, our elected officials and the Community Board:
Reclaim Street Space for pedestrians: A whole block of 8th Avenue (42/43) was transformed by dedicating a car lane to pedestrians and adding a protected bike [...]
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Complete Streets, Congestion, DOT STUDY, pedestrian, Port Authority, Sidewalk
Tagged bicycles, buses, crashes, NYPD, PANYNJ, pedestrian, policy, safety, Street Design
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Long awaited changes come to 11th Avenue – Less parking, Less congestion
Finally ! Once again , 11th Avenue goes in both directions between 34th and 40th Streets, allowing 9th and 10th Avenues to get relief from Lincoln tunnel- bond traffic congestion.
The Department of Transportation effected the changes last week and will add high visibility cross walks this week. An LPI has also been added at 37th [...]
Posted in Congestion, DOT STUDY
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This a great day for pedestrians in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen
As part of the Hell’s Kitchen Transporation Study we had requested that a number of intersections be equipped with split phase signals, which give a exclusive crossing phase to pedestrians. The Department of Transportation came through for us, approving all the intersections we had recommended: 12 more pedestrian crossings to be protected in 2017. [...]
10 Years of fights and successes for safer streets
CHEKPEDS was founded in September 2005. With a bit of delay, we are taking time to reflect on the last 10 years, the joys, the frustrations and overall the great progress YOU have accomplished with us and the help of untold number of partners . We are incredibly grateful for your advocacy and activism.
There is [...]
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Complete Streets, Congestion, DOT STUDY, Greening, Noise, pedestrian, Sidewalk, Traffic Justice, Transit
Tagged bicycles, buses, crashes, furniture, MTA, NYPD, PANYNJ, parking, pedestrian, safety
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24 Intersections now SAFER in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen
8 years into the DOT Traffic study of Hell’s Kitchen, DOT is adding six (6) Split phases and 18 Lead Pedestrian Intervals in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, a welcome news for the residents of these neighborhoods overwhelmed by the horrendous thru traffic.
Combined with those already installed as part of other projects ( bike lane, crash [...]
BIGGEST TRAFFIC CHANGE in years makes a superb debut in the quiet of the summer
On July 13th , in the middle of the day, Port Authority and DOT started to operate a contra lane on Dyer Avenue, between 42nd and 41st Streets for buses to reach the Lincoln Tunnel in a safer way. This resulted in 90 less left turns by buses at 42nd Street and 9th Avenue a [...]
Posted in CHEKPEDS, Congestion, DOT STUDY, pedestrian, Transit
Tagged buses, PANYNJ, safety, traffic
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2014 was a game changer for pedestrians
Vision Zero:
Mayor Di Blasio made good on his campaign promise to get serious on traffic injuries and fatalities. This year 22 bills were passed in the council to improve information, increase enforcement and increase penalties for careless drivers who do not respect the laws. The DOT embarked in a city-wide consultation with the communities to [...]
Posted in 9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Complete Streets, Congestion, DOT STUDY, Greening, pedestrian, Sidewalk, Traffic Justice, Transit
Tagged buses, furniture, MTA, NYPD, PANYNJ, park-plaza, pedestrian, safety
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Pedestrian’s delight: 9th Avenue gets a protected crossing at 43rd Street
This week, DOT installed what hundreds of Manhattan Plaza senior citizens and families with young children have been asking for years: a traffic signal that protects pedestrian crossing 9th Avenue on the south leg from westbound cars turning south from 43rd Street onto 9th Avenue.
Above , cars have a red turn arrow, while pedestrians crossing the [...]
