CHEKPEDS

Join Us for the 2nd Annual Pedestrian Memorial Walk

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 2, 2009July 14, 2021

The NYC Street Memorial Project invites you to walk with us on Sunday, January 4th, 2009, in our 2nd Annual Memorial Walk for pedestrians killed by automobiles on NYC streets. This year’s memorial walk is part of the 4th Annual… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets

CALL TO ACTION : Give us back our Sidewalks!

by Team ChekpedsDecember 11, 2008July 14, 2021

Community Board 4 undertakes a study of how to best use the ever shrinking sidewalk space: As you already know, our sidewalks are ever more crowded with more pedestrians and a panoply of so called amenities. Community Board 4 is… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Events, Pedestrian safety

NEWSTANDS: Amenity or Annoyance? How Many and Where ? Transportation Committee of CB4 to discuss and draft a policy

by Team ChekpedsNovember 11, 2008July 14, 2021

Wednesday , November 19th, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Fulton Houses, 119 9th Avenue ( btw 18/19th) Community Board 4 will discuss the city ‘s current criteria to approve newstands locations and evaluate suplemental conditions the Board may want the applicants… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety

Pedestrian Safety summit: DOT Commissionner gets an earful of frustrated complaints from West Side’s feisty pedestrians.

by Team ChekpedsOctober 15, 2008July 14, 2021

In May 2008, our elected officials convened a pedestrian summit with the DOT commissioner. More than 150 vocal residents showed up and shared a collection of grievances all very resonable. If none of them were new to us , it… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Events, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

Pedestrian Safety Town Hall

by Team ChekpedsApril 20, 2008July 14, 2021

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

Rapid Diagnostic of Crash Locations

by Team ChekpedsMarch 11, 2008July 14, 2021

Wednesday March 12th, NY City Council’s transportation Committee will vote on a bill requiring the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) to study and make improvements at crash locations. This bill would require the DOT to conduct the following… Read more

DOT STUDY

Martin Treat: DOT and Pedestrian Safety-Good News

by Team ChekpedsFebruary 19, 2008July 14, 2021

Good news on DOT’s focus on Pedestrian Safety in the scope NYMTC study Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Traffic Study. In December, before he left for duty in Iraq, Chris Hardej of NYMTC’s Designing Streets for Pedestrian Safety, told me that… Read more

DOT STUDY

Sue Raskin & Ruth Lennon Comments

by Team ChekpedsFebruary 15, 2008July 14, 2021

Sue and Ruth asked me to post the following: Response from both Sue Raskin and Ruth Lennon, Co-chairs of the PennSouth Cooperative Council “We are in complete agreement with Christine Berthet’s recommendations. Considering pedestrian safety and traffic calming measures are… Read more

DOT STUDY

Eric’s comments

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 13, 2008July 14, 2021

My major concern with this study is the fact that DOT will be collecting data on ONLY 1 day . I don’t know how reliable their data collection is in terms of day-to-day and month-to-month variation, but they tried to… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Complete Streets, Congestion, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice, Transit

2007 in perspective: Happy New Year

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 7, 2008July 14, 2021

We wish you a SAFE 2008 with more time to cross the street, plenty of neck downs, Barnes’ dances and speed bumps to slow down the cars, and NYPD enforcing the law . We wish you a HEALTHY 2008, with… Read more