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This Week: See the DOT Fifth Avenue Bikeway Plan
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On Thursday, DOT will reveal its plan for a protected bike lane on Fifth Avenue. Fifth gets more bike traffic than any other southbound avenue in Manhattan, according to DOT bike counts, and New Yorkers have been asking the city to make it a complete street for years. DOT committed to studying a redesign in 2014.
This Week: Planning for a 14th Street With No L Train
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The looming L train shutdown will disrupt travel for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and demands a serious response. This week you can speak up for a robust plan to keep people moving sans L train at a workshop in Manhattan, where advocates are calling on DOT and the MTA to implement transitways on 14th Street and Delancey Street.
This Week: Help Plan the Future of Surface Transit in NYC
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DOT is working on a citywide plan to improve streets for transit, including new bus lanes and better biking and walking access to stops and stations. This week DOT will host workshops in Queens and the Bronx to hear from New Yorkers about how their transit system could be better.
This Week: Hear From the Candidates for Vacant Harlem Council Seat
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In a district where the overwhelming majority of residents don't own cars, Inez Dickens opposed bus improvements for 125th Street and prioritized high-speed driving over traffic-calming on Morningside Avenue. Will her successor be better?
This Week: Improving Access to the Sunset Park Waterfront
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On Thursday DOT and UPROSE will host a workshop on the Sunset Park Upland Connectors project, which aims to improve walking and biking access between the neighborhood’s residential core and waterfront businesses and public spaces, including the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.
This Week: Rally for a 14th Street PeopleWay
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Transportation Alternatives is organizing a rally for the 14th Street PeopleWay at Union Square on Thursday evening. The PeopleWay concept calls for dedicating 14th Street exclusively to transit, walking, and biking.
This Week: Tell DOT to Make the Grand Concourse a Complete Street
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On Thursday you can weigh in how to make the Grand Concourse safer for all street users at a DOT workshop. The same day at Brooklyn CB 2, DOT will present several safety projects, including the Amity Street Wiggle.
This Week: Get Involved in the Next Round of Queens Blvd Safety Upgrades
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It’s important to keep advocating for safe bikeways where people can ride outside the door zone on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park and Forest Hills, because allocating that street space to biking will involve more parking removal than previous sections of the project.
This Week: Tell DOT to Prioritize a Safer Times Plaza in 2017
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On Saturday Transportation Alternatives will hold a rally, with Borough President Eric Adams, to urge the city to fix Times Plaza in 2017.
This Week: Speak Up for a Safer Dyckman Street
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Upper Manhattan advocates have been asking DOT for a protected bike lane on Dyckman Street for nearly a decade.
This Week: 111th Street, Riders Alliance on Transit in 2017
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Last month DOT revealed its compromise plan to redesign 111th Street in Corona. Tomorrow DOT will present the current plan to the Queens Community Board 4 transportation committee.
This Week: Rally for a Grand Street PeopleWay
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Brooklyn’s Grand Street is a major connection between Williamsburg and the Williamsburg Bridge, and will be key to moving people across the East River when L train service is disrupted for Sandy-related repairs. Grand Street is also where Matthew von Ohlen was killed by a hit-and-run driver while cycling last summer. This week Transportation Alternatives will launch the Grand […]