CHEKPEDS

Can Vision Zero succeed without good information?

by Team ChekpedsDecember 26, 2014July 14, 2021

In November , CHEKPEDS testified at a hearing of the City council Technology committee that NYPD was allocating vastly more resources to car crashes without no physical injuries than to crashes with pedestrians/bicyclists injured or killed. CHEKPEDS has always been… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Clean Air, Congestion, Events, Transit

Join Us to Meet with our Favorite Bus Companies

by Team ChekpedsSeptember 14, 2014July 14, 2021

CB4 Transportation Committee Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m. Cameo Studios, 307 West 43rd street, Studio B The executives of many of our favorite bus companies – including New Jersey Transit – have accepted to meet with the community to discuss… Read more

9th Avenue Renaissance, CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Greening, Pedestrian safety

Pedestrian Delight: 41st Street Protected Crossing

by Team ChekpedsSeptember 5, 2014July 14, 2021

After six years of asking and two neighbors killed, it is finally SAFE for pedestrians to cross 41st Street on the West side of 9th Avenue! As you can see below, pedestrians are actually talking and smiling while crossing the… Read more

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.