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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 .
Join Us: Cross town protected bike lanes
[ January 17, 2018; 12:30 am to 9:30 pm. ] After the community board asked twice for crosstown bike lanes, DOT is presenting their plan for multiple crosstown protected bike lanes, as well as a project to implement a pair on 26/29th Streets where a bicyclist was killed by a bus driver last summer.
Manhattan Community Baord 4 – Transportation committee
Wednesday , January 17, 6:30 p.m.
Cameo [...]
Protected: Sign the Petition : Safety is a priority on the greenway
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Posted in CHEKPEDS, pedestrian, Traffic Justice
Tagged bicycles, crashes, NYSDOT, pedestrian, safety
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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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Cross Town Protected Bike lanes on W37/38th streets?
Community Board 4 wrote a letter to DOT asking them to study the feasibility of protected crosstown bike lanes on 37th and 38th Streets from 11th to 8th Avenue .
The bike lanes would connect workers and residents of the emerging Hudson Yards district to the northbound / southbound lanes on 8th and 9th Avenues. And [...]
DOT Focuses on Protecting Intersections for Cyclists
After a number of Community Boards banded together to ask the DOT to protect intersections along bike lanes, a study is underway to look at all intersections treatments and come back with recommendation some time next year.
As part of this study, the DOT installed various tests, bollards on the upper west side, Columbus Avenue at 70th [...]
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Tagged bicycles, crashes, pedestrian
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We Desperately Need Protected Intersections
Activists are making the rounds of Community Boards with one message to DOT: we need protected intersections! by letting cars turn at the same time as cyclists and pedestrians cross the intersection, DOT is creating a dangerous situation and is responsible for crashes at these intersections!
This is a position CHEKPEDS has advocated for a long [...]
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Tagged bicycles, crashes, pedestrian, policy
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NYPD Responds to Criticism after the Death of Two Cyclists
Chief Chan as well as his direct reports and the head of the Collision Investigation unit were on hand to discuss the various issues raised after the death of two cyclist in CB4 in June.
NYPD confirmed that their current procedure is to not comment on a crash, either at the crash site or at headquarters [...]
Will 7th Avenue bike lane have safer intersections?
This month the DOT presented a proposal for a parking protected bike lane on 7th Avenue between Clarkson and 30th Street. While in the past the discussion may have focused on loss of parking, this year all the questions from the public and the committee were on intersection safety.
Following the death of a cyclist on [...]
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Tagged bicycles, crashes, pedestrian, safety
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