CHEKPEDS

Success! Bloomberg launches Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge

by Team ChekpedsDecember 9, 2012July 14, 2021

This week Mayor Bloomberg announced the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of New York City’s public pay telephones. The goal… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Pedestrian safety

Steps to a Walkable Community

by Team ChekpedsNovember 12, 2012July 14, 2021

Three weeks ago (it seems like an eternity), Sam Schwartz Engineering published jointly with America Walks a complete guide on how to improve the environment for pedestrians. This is quite a breakthrough to have one of the better known transportation… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Traffic Justice

Pedestrian First Awards: NYPD Officers Dunnell and Deas

by Team ChekpedsOctober 20, 2012July 14, 2021

We routinely complain to the NYPD of the traffic agents behavior, of the fact that no moving violations are given to poor drivers and generally that we, pedestrians, do not feel protected. So when one of our members, David Solnick… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Congestion, Pedestrian safety, Transit

SPEAK UP: Enough band aids! Let’s fix the bus issue once and for all!

by Team ChekpedsOctober 8, 2012July 14, 2021

Although we have scored many successes in our battle to rid our streets of buses, we are still losing the war: curbside parking is disappearing as development in Hudson Yards accelerates, while the need to bring ever more tourists is… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Sidewalk

Last Call for Phone Booths guidelines

by Team ChekpedsSeptember 28, 2012July 14, 2021

On Wednesday October 3rd, Manhattan Community Board 4 will vote on recommendations for the future of phone booths as part of the new 2014 franchise contract. It is important that you document which problematic pay phone should be removed as… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety

Delivery Cyclists Education in full swing on 9th Avenue

by Team ChekpedsJuly 21, 2012July 14, 2021

To coincide with the installation of the bike lanes, CHEKPEDS has designed a turn-key Business Owner Education package and partnered with the Midtown North and South Precincts to undertake a systematic education of all businesses owners and their bike delivery… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Complete Streets, Events

Speak Up: Help Shape the Region’s 25 Year Transportation Plan

by Team ChekpedsJune 28, 2012July 14, 2021

Bus garage? Bus terminal? 41st street subway stop? the # 7 continuing to New Jersey? a Selct Bus line on 11th Avenue? These are all big capital projects that are needed yesterday in our neighborhood. The only way to make… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety

Jane Jacob’s Walk – An inspiring experience

by Team ChekpedsMay 7, 2012July 14, 2021

Saturday morning 40 pedestrians set out to visit Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea to experience first hand the improvements of our streets. The walk was sponsored by Transportation Alternatives, the original creators of the Safe Route To Schools program, and by… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Pedestrian safety

The Incredible 17 seconds Life Preserving Interval (LPI)

by Team ChekpedsMay 1, 2012July 14, 2021

Three years ago , CHEKPEDS members Eric Muise gathered a petition to obtain safety for pedestrians in crossing 34th Street at Dyer Avenue , an exit to the Lincoln Tunnel. Martin Treat explains how it helps pedestrian safety. Since then… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Events, Traffic Justice

Join Us: Press conference on Illegal Honking

by Team ChekpedsApril 29, 2012July 14, 2021

Join David Yassky, Taxi Limousine Commissioner and Citizens Committee for New York in a flash action to remind Taxi Drivers in our neighborhood that honking is illegal.In October 2011, David Yasski reminded Cab Drivers that honking is illegal . This… Read more