CHEKPEDS

Bike Share is coming – Pick the locations!

by Team ChekpedsOctober 23, 2011July 14, 2021

DOT is making the rounds presenting the bike share program. You can see it here. They will soon come back with proposed locations for the stations ( one ever four blocks) and we will be sure to distribute widely. The… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Congestion, Events, Transit

Speak Up! : 34th Street Transitway – Traffic Analysis Results

by Team ChekpedsSeptember 30, 2011July 14, 2021

Please join the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) for a public open house on Select Bus Service on 34th Street. Click Here for the flyer. At these meetings DOT will present the results… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Events, Pedestrian safety, Transit

Join Us: CB4 Transportation Committee (new date)

by Team ChekpedsJune 25, 2011July 14, 2021

Due to various scheduling conflicts the CB4 Transportation Committee will meet in July on a different date. CB4 Transportation Committee Thursday, July 14, 2011 – 6:30 pm Holland House, 351 W 42nd Street, Piano Room Agenda presently includes DDC- DEP… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Congestion, Transit

Bus Terminal Hits Its Limits

by Team ChekpedsMay 6, 2011July 14, 2021

Don’t we know it! It still feels good that it now well recognized and documented. The article provides a glimpse of the tough trade offs the dispatchers have to make , and how this often results in buses circling on… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Events, Sidewalk, Transit

Join Us: CB4 Transportation committee to focus on 34th Street

by Team ChekpedsApril 16, 2011July 14, 2021

The upcoming transportation Committee of CB4 will take up a number of issues relevant to residents of 34th Street and its surroundings: 34th Street Transitway, long distance buses at 9th Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, and the illegal curb… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Complete Streets, Events, Transit

Join Us: 34th Street redesign unveiled

by Team ChekpedsMarch 26, 2011July 14, 2021

This public meeting is subsequent to the next Committee Advisory Committee, on March 14th .

CHEKPEDS, Pedestrian safety, Transit

CAll For Action: Pedestrians and bus riders must come first on 34th Street.

by Team ChekpedsMarch 1, 2011July 14, 2021

East Side residents and businesses have launched a full fledge attack on a DOT project to speed up buses on 34th Street (including our own M16) and give more space and safety to pedestrians who regularly overflow in the street… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Transit

Bus riders frustrated at MTA’s response to blizzard

by Team ChekpedsJanuary 20, 2011July 14, 2021

City Council’s Transportation Committee held a hearing on MTA’s response to blizzard. Here is our testimony : The bus lanes and routes were not the first lanes to be cleared of snow. Considering how critical is the good functioning of… Read more

CHEKPEDS, Events, Transit

CB5 to host a hearing on 34th Street Transitway

by Team ChekpedsNovember 18, 2010July 14, 2021

In the meantime, Community Board 4’s Representative on the CAC, Brett Firfer, has asked DOT a presentation of their findings to date.

CHEKPEDS, Events, Transit

Moynihan Station and the Complexity of Major Public Projects

by Team ChekpedsNovember 13, 2010July 14, 2021

Join “Our Own” Anna Levin, in a preseentation and discussion of this monumental project. The Politics of Developement Wednesday, November 17, 2010 – 6:00 pm Theresa Land Community & Students Center, Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th Street (btwn 5th &… Read more