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CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Pedestrian safety

Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen win Safer Bike Lanes

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 23, 2016July 14, 2021

Under significant pressure from the community and its elected representatives, DOT agreed to add 33 real pedestrian refuges to the proposed 6th Avenue bike lane between 8th and 33rd Street. Community Board 4 will vote to approve the revised proposal… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Greening

A Fun Thing To Do During The Blizzard

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 21, 2016July 14, 2021

The Hudson Yards / Hell’s Kitchen Alliance (a Business Improvement District) is naming your new park and they want your help! See the pictures and suggest a name by clicking HERE! This will be the first time in New York… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Congestion, Greening, Pedestrian safety, Sidewalk, Traffic Justice

2015 was a good year for Street Safety!

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 2, 2016July 14, 2021

Thanks to the DOT administration and the advocates of various groups ( most notably Transportation Alternatives ) we made great strides in 2015: Safety: CHEKPEDS’s push on fully protected phases for pedestrian crossings was embraced by the DOT in their… Read more

CHEKPEDS, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety

24 Intersections now SAFER in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen

by Team ChekpedsNovember 12, 2015July 14, 2021

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… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Traffic Justice

Join Us to remember the victims: 373,377 lives lost to traffic in US in last 10 years

by Team ChekpedsNovember 12, 2015July 14, 2021

November 15, @ 12 Noon, City Hall Park Fountain. There are no words to describe this epidemic and the condoning silence that surrounds it . The costs to society are staggering, and the cost in pain to families indescribable. … Read more

CHEKPEDS, Congestion, Port Authority, Transit

Bus Terminal Master Planning should include Community Input

by Team ChekpedsNovember 12, 2015July 14, 2021

The Port Authority Board voted on October 22nd to initiate two studies in advance of finalizing a location and a design for a new bus terminal by September 2016. Performing a “Trans-Hudson Commuting Capacity Study” including other modes like rail… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets

Tell the Feds: City Streets Are Not Highways

by Team ChekpedsNovember 12, 2015July 14, 2021

It doesn’t make much sense to design a street that passes through the center of a community’s downtown the same way we would the 50 mph highway that carries commuters from that city to another. Currently, local communities and states… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Congestion, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety, Transit

BIGGEST TRAFFIC CHANGE in years makes a superb debut in the quiet of the summer

by Team ChekpedsAugust 29, 2015July 14, 2021

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… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

NYPD and their Cars

by Team ChekpedsAugust 29, 2015July 14, 2021

Commissioner Bratton this week repeatedly voiced his support for removing the Times Square Plazas that have become an enormous success with all users including the real estate interests in the area. This is in response to incidents with a few… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

New Bills introduced to prevent Left Turn collisions

by Team ChekpedsAugust 29, 2015July 14, 2021

ON August 13, Public Advocate Letitia James introduced two traffic safety bills in the New York City Council aimed at reducing pedestrian deaths across the City. The first bill would require the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) to… Read more