CHEKPEDS

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Justice

Vision Zero: Last Chance to flag your intersection

by Team ChekpedsJuly 30, 2014July 14, 2021

Take a minute tonight to mark your “favorite” dangerous intersections! Click on the map DOT will take down the map tomorrow and will start establishing priorities for intersections that should be studied and fixed. Do not miss this opportunity to… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Traffic Justice

25 mph: A Hard-Won Victory in Albany

by Team ChekpedsJune 22, 2014July 14, 2021

Both the Assembly and the State passed bill S07892 allowing New York City to reduce its default speed limit to 25 mph from the current 30 mph. Both Assembly Member Dick Gottfried and Linda Rosenthal were proponents and Senator Brad… Read more

CHEKPEDS, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety

Pedestrian’s delight: 9th Avenue gets a protected crossing at 43rd Street

by Team ChekpedsMay 20, 2014July 14, 2021

This week, DOT installed what hundreds of Manhattan Plaza senior citizens and families with young children have been asking for years: a traffic signal that protects pedestrian crossing 9th Avenue on the south leg from westbound cars turning south from… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Traffic Justice

Vision Zero: Two Full and Emotional Weeks

by Team ChekpedsMay 11, 2014July 14, 2021

Last week, NYC Council Transportation Committee heard public comments on 22 bills designed to be the first phase of Mayor De Blasio’s Vision Zero . The Day started with a press conference where “Families for Safe Streets” which regroup members… Read more

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.

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