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 Tuesday, September 25, 2012 NYC DOT Commisioner Sadik-Khan, Deputy Mayor Wolfson, TLC Commissioner Yassky Extend LOOK! Campaign Calling on Taxi Passengers to Look for Bike Riders When Opening Doors New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Commissioner and Chairman David Yassky today extended the LOOK! safety campaign to combat the dangers of “dooring”—crashes caused when a car door is opened into the path of a bike rider—using new eye-catching decals affixed to taxi passenger windows and a new Taxi TV video that calls on passengers to look out for bike riders when opening a cab door. Starting today, 26,000 eye-catching, orange-and-white window stickers reading “LOOK! For Cyclists” will be available to the city’s 13,000 yellow-taxi fleet, which provide some 200 million rides citywide a year. The video calls on New Yorkers to “Take out their boss/Take out a date/But don’t take out a cyclist’ and will air on video units in every yellow taxi cab on Taxi TV, the dedicated network in cabs, through NYC Media and will also air on the City’s NYC life channel. This campaign extends the campaign kicked off last week with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood that is bringing “LOOK!” street markings to 200 high-crash crosswalks citywide and a concurrent ad campaign, and they are the latest in the City’s ongoing efforts to make New York City’s streets safer for everyone. Commissioner Sadik-Khan, Deputy Mayor Wolfson and Commissioner Yassky previewed the decals and video at an event today at Union Square, joined by Bike New York President Ken Podziba and Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White. PRESS RELEASE # 12-49 |
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Thursday, September 20, 2012 NYC DOT to Offer Special Car-Seat Fitting and Free, Fun Activities for Family Safety Day, Held in Conjunction With “National Seat Check Saturday” The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) is hosting free, one-on-one child safety-seat inspection and installations along with free, fun activities and prizes for all ages on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at NYC DOT’s Access Safety City facility at 672 W. 158th Street in Manhattan as part of its annual Family Safety Day. This event is designed to educate parents, guardians and caregivers about the critical importance of car seats and to provide hands-on guidance for installing them correctly. Fun activities for children and adults will help attendees learn more about safety in and around cars, and underscore the need for New Yorkers of all ages, and especially teens, to buckle up when traveling in vehicles. Family Safety Day is timed with National Seat Check Saturday, which is part of Child Passenger Safety Week, a week-long awareness campaign highlighting the gravity of properly securing all children in appropriate safety seats, booster seats or seat belts—every trip, every time. Appointments for a seat check are recommended, although not required. Participants must bring their own seats for installation. PRESS RELEASE # 12-47 |
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 NYC DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan, US Transportation Secretary LaHood Launch Innovative “LOOK” Safety Campaign, Bringing Innovative Pedestrian Street Markings, Distracted Driving Ads Alerting New Yorker New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced the launch of the new LOOK! safety campaign to highlight the critical need for motorists and pedestrians to pay attention when driving and crossing the street and also introducing the City’s first widespread use of “LOOK” pavement markings at crosswalks alerting pedestrians to oncoming traffic. Ads tailored to drivers feature eyes and will appear on MTA/NYC buses’ rear advertising panels. These ads remind motorists to “Drive smart/LOOK!” with the dramatic statistic that 57% of traffic fatalities involved pedestrians. Another underscores the life-saving benefits of motorists looking before they turn, noting that half of all New Yorkers killed last year by cars at the crosswalk had a green light. The street treatment’s distinctive lettering, installed with the same durable thermoplastic used in other street markings, spell the word “LOOK” with “eyes” drawn within the O’s mimicking eyes looking in the direction of oncoming traffic. Commissioner Sadik-Khan and Secretary LaHood unveiled the new safety campaign at Second Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, one of the dozens of intersections where the markings and ads are featured. PRESS RELEASE # 12-46 |
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Thursday, September 6, 2012 NYC DOT Announces Completion Of “6 ½ Avenue,” Connecting Midtown Public Spaces With New, Safer Pedestrian Crossings New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced the completion of 6 ½ Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, creating a new pedestrian avenue in the heart of midtown. DOT installed new crosswalks to connect and enhance access to these existing, hidden midblock pedestrian spaces. Running about a quarter-mile between and parallel to 6th and 7th avenues from West 51st to 57th streets, the 6 ½ Avenue project brings midblock, high-visibility pedestrian crosswalks, reflective markers and Stop signs for traffic on cross streets, reducing conflicts between motorists and pedestrians. The public spaces connect residential and commercial buildings and these new connections also ease access to local buildings and businesses for the area’s thousands of residents, employees and visitors. Before the project, up to 1,200 pedestrians an hour would cross midblock to reach these plazas at its busiest location, entering the street from between parked vehicles and without established crosswalks. PRESS RELEASE # 12-44 |
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Thursday, August 16, 2012 NYC DOT, NYC Bike Share Announce March 2013 Citi Bike Launch The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), bike share operator New York City Bike Share (NYCBS) today announced that the Citi Bike system will launch in March 2013 with an initial phase of 7,000 bikes implemented at 420 stations. The timeline, agreed to by all parties, does not affect the Citi Bike sponsorship structure, which uses $41 million in private funding from Citi to underwrite the system for five years and ensures that NYCBS will split profits with the City. PRESS RELEASE # 12-42 |
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 NYC DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan Invites New Yorkers to Come Out for Summer Streets 2012, Starting Saturday, August 4 New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner (DOT) Janette Sadik-Khan today reminded New Yorkers and visitors to take part in Summer Streets 2012 and enjoy nearly seven miles of car-free streets in Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park open to free fun, family-friendly activities and healthy recreation for three Saturdays this month—Aug. 4, 11 and 18—from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., as well as to participate in the 30 remaining Weekend Walks at 12 sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens over the coming weeks. This year’s Summer Streets lineup includes several new attractions, including a 160-foot-long zip line, temporary public art and a yoga pop-up park, as well as the return of the free helmet distribution, the 25-foot REI rock climbing wall, free exercise and dance classes and the Whole Foods picnic area for all three weekends. These activities complement the dozens of additional opportunities to play sports, walk, run, bike and rollerblade. PRESS RELEASE # 12-40 |
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012 NYC DOT Announces Reduced Parking Restrictions in Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights to Begin in August New Street Cleaning/Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations in parts of the Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn Community District 7 take effect Monday, August 6th, with enforcement starting Monday, August 13th, now that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has completed the second of two phases to install new, reduced parking regulations. Approximately 2,400 signs in the area were installed during this phase, reducing residential street cleaning parking restrictions from twice a week to just once a week to ease parking for local residents. The new rules were established by the Department of Sanitation at the request of Community Board 7, which became the first community to receive reduced parking regulations since legislation passed the City Council in 2011 allowing for a reduction if local streets met City standards for cleanliness. To be eligible, local streets within the district must receive an average street cleanliness scorecard rating of at least 90 percent for two consecutive fiscal years. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced in September 2009 that the City would continue to reduce parking restrictions in additional locations if street cleanliness ratings remained at high levels, following the implementation of pilot programs in Brooklyn’s Community Districts 2 and 6, and immediately prior to a reduction pilot commencing in Community District 8 in the Bronx. PRESS RELEASE # 12-39 |
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Friday, July 13, 2012 NYC DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan, City Council Members and NYC Restaurants Announce New Delivery Cyclist Education and Enforcement Program New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan , along with Council Members Gale Brewer, Jessica Lappin, Dan Garodnick and Council Transportation Committee Chairman James Vacca, today announced that DOT is expanding its safety efforts with New York’s largest commercial cycling education and safety campaign to make New York City’s historically safe streets even safer. DOT on Monday will activate the City’s first-ever commercial cyclist outreach and enforcement unit, a six-person team of DOT inspectors who will go door-to-door on the Upper West Side providing information to hundreds of restaurants and other businesses that employ cyclists on their existing legal requirements to provide safety information and safe equipment to their delivery workers—including helmets, identifying apparel and ID numbers. After six months, businesses that fail to comply with the commercial cycling laws may receive a violation from DOT resulting in a fine ranging from $100 to $300. NYPD will continue its ongoing enforcement against individual cyclists who ride on the sidewalk or against traffic, who disobey signs and signals or who do not wear a helmet, among other infractions, having given out 14,392 violations last year to cyclists—up from 3,874 in 2010. The participants were joined outside Lenny’s sandwich shop on Columbus Avenue and 84th Street by local business representatives committed to the program, Columbus Avenue BID Executive Director Barbara Adler and NYC Hospitality Alliance Executive Director Andrew Rigie. Lenny’s has one of the city’s more robust commercial cycling safety management programs, with all delivery staff trained in safety; equipped with reflective vests, ID cards; and restaurant management reports indicating fewer safety incidents. PRESS RELEASE # 12-038 |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 NYC DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan and NY Knicks Team Up For "Heads Up" Safety Campaign New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced that the NY Knicks Baron Davis and Larry Johnson have joined DOT’s “Heads Up” street safety ad campaign, which spotlights unsafe behavior and reminds pedestrians, bike riders and motorists to stay alert, obey the rules of the road and keep themselves and others safe. Though his recent injury has kept him off the basketball court, Baron Davis remains committed to the message in a never-before-released video he shot earlier this year, declaring “My head is up—is yours?” as he chides scofflaw pedestrians, bike riders and motorists for ignoring basic safety rules. The video and supporting Heads Up print ad campaign on bus shelters citywide conclude with the phrase “Know the code/share the road.” One print ad calls on pedestrians to watch for turning cars, since “That break-up text can wait.” All ads are titled with the campaign’s imperative: HEADS UP. The video and ads can be viewed at nyc.gov/dot. The Commissioner was joined at the announcement at Greenwich Village’s famed West 4th Street Courts by NY Knick Larry Johnson, a former NBA All-Star and-now a business and basketball operations representative for the organization. PRESS RELEASE # 12-36 |
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Friday, June 22, 2012 NYC DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan Announces Blueprint for Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today released the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway implementation plan, highlighting the specific routing options chosen by Brooklyn communities for the 14-mile pedestrian and bicycle path as part of a years-long public visioning and planning process. The document includes the finalized route, implementation framework and funding options for the 23 capital projects that will complete the greenway as funding becomes available to connect neighborhoods from Greenpoint to Sunset Park. More than five miles of interim greenway, including sections in Brooklyn Bridge Park and along Williamsburg and Columbia streets, are already in place and welcoming large number of visitors. This implementation plan provides a blueprint for the remaining phases, including upcoming construction of permanent protected paths on West, Flushing and Van Brunt streets. The document marks the beginning of the capital project phase following three years of public outreach and community workshops and will help shape the future of the borough’s waterfront by enhancing access, improving safety, and increasing the number of recreational opportunities in these growing neighborhoods. These planning and construction efforts are made possible by $14 million in funding secured by Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez and the outreach efforts of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI) and the Regional Plan Association (RPA). To explore the route and review the implantation plan, please visit nyc.gov/dot. PRESS RELEASE # 12-34 |
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