CHEKPEDS

Events, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

Vision Zero: YOU can make it happen!

by Team ChekpedsApril 21, 2014July 14, 2021

A new group is speaking with unparalleled moral authority about the urgent need to change the culture of speed and death on our streets. Families For Safe Streets is a grassroots organization made up of family members of people killed… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Events, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

Vision Zero: Learn more

by Team ChekpedsFebruary 22, 2014July 14, 2021

We attended the Vision Zero announcement in front of the victims families on the left and many elected officials including Borough President Gale Brewer on the right, Council member Helen Rosenthal and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal amongst others. Amongst the … Read more

CHEKPEDS, Events, Traffic Justice

Join Us: Families for Safe Streets

by Team ChekpedsFebruary 22, 2014July 14, 2021

Tomorrow Sunday at 2 p.m. on City Hall Steps to launch”Families For Safe Streets” created by relatives of traffic victims. Another milestone, to ensure that Vision Zero becomes reality . Never Again.

9th Avenue Renaissance, Sidewalk

Reclaiming Sidewalk Space

by Team ChekpedsFebruary 22, 2014July 14, 2021

In the last four weeks, our volunteers in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen took an inventory of sidewalk obstructions. They identified 423 (!) illegal obstructions. The obstructions include storm enclosures as large as a studio apartment, the ubiquitous sandwich boards in… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Sidewalk

Top 10 Reasons for Jaywalking

by Team ChekpedsFebruary 17, 2014July 14, 2021

# 10 – I cannot move forward: there are hordes of people coming at me # 9 – Where do I cross ? the crossing between avenues is so far away, I cannot even see it! # 8 – Sidewalks… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Events, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

Join Us Tonight – Enough is Enough!

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 15, 2014July 14, 2021

Join community groups and concerned neighbors of the Upper West Side at a community vigil to honor Cooper Stock and Alexander Shear. 9-year-old Cooper, and 73 year-old Alexander, both members of the Upper West Side community, were struck and killed… Read more

CHEKPEDS, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety

HK Study Yields a Major Pedestrian Improvement

by Team ChekpedsDecember 28, 2013July 14, 2021

In 2003, pedestrians were dismayed to see DOT and the Port Authority erect a barricade blocking the crossing of Ramp C at 36th Street and 9th Avenue supposedly in the name of safety! It was essentially to improve traffic flow.… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, DOT STUDY, Greening, Pedestrian safety, Sidewalk

New Plaza dubbed “The Canoe”, is taking shape in Hell’s Kitchen

by Team ChekpedsDecember 28, 2013July 14, 2021

As long as we can remember, NYPD and other vehicles perpendicularly parked on a block length of 36th Street’s north sidewalk, between 9th and Dyer Avenues forcing all pedestrians to walk on the roadway. This is the path to the… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Congestion

Pedestrian Safety: A Tale of Two Cities

by Team ChekpedsNovember 3, 2013July 14, 2021

This week we testified at a City Council Hearing on the collision that killed Samuel Cohen Eckstein. This family’s pain left everyone – including all council members present – in tears. City Council reps, Transportation Alternatives and members of the… Read more

CHEKPEDS, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety

Finally! 42nd Street and 9th Avenue safer for pedestrians

by Team ChekpedsOctober 3, 2013July 14, 2021

After 7 years of dogged persistence on the part of our members, the south crossing at 42nd Street and 9th Avenue is now much safer. When the light turns red on 9th Avenue, pedestrians now get the WALK signal immediately,… Read more