Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

Harlem CB Chair Complains Bus Lanes Have Slowed Her Cab Rides to Subway

By Stephen Miller | Feb 10, 2015 | 55 Comments

Manhattan Community Board 10 Chair Henrietta Lyle thinks bus lanes have made it harder to get around Harlem. In a conversation with Streetsblog, Lyle disputed our coverage of Select Bus Service on 125th Street and waved off data from the Census and NYC DOT. She also dismissed WE ACT for Environmental Justice, which had worked with bus […]

UWS Residents to Brewer: No More Street Safety Obstructionists on CB 7

By Stephen Miller | Feb 9, 2015 | 17 Comments

Will Gale Brewer reappoint noted street safety obstructionist Dan Zweig to Community Board 7? Families of traffic violence victims came to her State of the Borough address yesterday seeking an answer. Protesters stood outside Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall with signs — “Gale, You Have the Power to Fix CB 7” and “Lives Matter More Than Parking […]

Who’s Against Better Sidewalks and Bus Stops? These People…

By Stephen Miller | Feb 6, 2015 | 23 Comments

Bus bulbs are sidewalk extensions at bus stops that enable passengers to board without the driver pulling in and out of traffic. They save transit riders time, shorten crossing distances for pedestrians, and keep sidewalks from getting cluttered by bus stop furniture. Who could be against that? Well, on the Upper East Side, a few […]

UWS Residents Silently Protest Manhattan CB 7 Inaction on Street Safety

By Lisa Orman | Feb 4, 2015 | 42 Comments

[Last night, residents of the Upper West Side staged a silent protest at the general meeting of Manhattan Community Board 7, hoping to get the attention of a board that has repeatedly failed to take action on street redesigns proven to reduce injuries and deaths. Local residents fighting for street safety improvements find themselves stymied […]

Victims’ Families to Electeds: End the Obstruction of Safe Streets on the UWS

By Stephen Miller | Jan 22, 2015 | 17 Comments

Years of frustration with the leadership of Manhattan Community Board 7 boiled over at a traffic safety forum on the Upper West Side last night. Twice during the event, neighborhood residents who lost family members to traffic violence called on elected officials not to reappoint Dan Zweig, who has co-chaired CB 7’s transportation committee for […]

New Year, Same Old Community Board 10

By Stephen Miller | Jan 16, 2015 | 11 Comments

Despite serving an area of the city where the vast majority of people don’t own cars, Manhattan Community Board 10 has delayed, watered down, or otherwise worked to foil several major projects to improve transit and street safety in the past few years. After obstructing 125th Street Select Bus Service and refusing to support traffic […]

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