Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about CHEKPEDS

This Is the Tool You Need to Push for Safer Streets in Your Part of NYC

By Brad Aaron | Mar 2, 2018 | No Comments

When CHEKPEDS introduced Crash Mapper a year ago, it was already an improvement over City Hall's Vision Zero View. Crash Mapper uses the same data as the city map, but the public can do a lot more with it.

Crash Mapper provides greater flexibility to query and visualize crash data than the city's Vision Zero View tool.

Map the Dangerous Streets in Your Neighborhood With This New Tool

By David Meyer | Mar 8, 2017 | No Comments

The street safety advocates at Hell's Kitchen-based Chekpeds have relaunched NYC Crash Mapper, a tool lets you drill down on traffic crash data in your neighborhood, community board, or City Council district. The new Crash Mapper interface is a step up from City Hall's Vision Zero View tool, which launched in 2014, in some important ways.

The Missing Piece in DOT’s Left-Turn Safety Plan: Real Split-Phase Signals

By Brad Aaron | Aug 9, 2016 | 13 Comments

Split-phase traffic signals protect pedestrians and cyclists by separating them from turning drivers — people walking and biking across the street get their own signal phase, and drivers turning into the crosswalk get another. Research indicates that split-phase signals are highly effective at preventing traffic injuries and deaths. But when DOT revealed its strategy to reduce crashes caused by left-turning […]

TSTC and Manhattanites Call for Port Authority to Improve Bus Facilities

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2014 | 8 Comments

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign joined locals in Hell’s Kitchen today to call on the Port Authority to invest in improved and expanded bus facilities to relieve pressure on local streets. With no more space left in the authority’s existing facilities, a growing number of buses are parked by curbs near the Port Authority Bus Terminal. […]

CB 4 Still Pushing DOT for Time to Cross Deadly Hell’s Kitchen Intersections

By Brad Aaron | Feb 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

Manhattan Community Board 4 has renewed its call for safety improvements at the Hell’s Kitchen crossing where an elderly woman was killed by a driver last week. The request comes five years after a resolution that asked for exclusive crossing time for pedestrians at the deadly intersection, and is the latest episode in a years-long, […]

Proposal for New Park Near Lincoln Tunnel Endorsed by CB 4

By Brad Aaron | Jan 3, 2013 | No Comments

A community-driven proposal to create a new public space on a street near the Lincoln Tunnel was endorsed by Manhattan Community Board 4 Wednesday. The plan, as reported by DNAinfo in December, is to convert three lane-widths of leftover asphalt on Dyer Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets into a park. That stretch of Dyer […]

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