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New York City Transit is the life blood of New York City, moving more than 187.9 million passengers per month. However, the Lexington Avenue Subway Line is currently over 150% of capacity. As the City grows we must improve capacity and investigate transportation alternatives. We must find alternative transportation routes for residents of Roosevelt Island by modifying current subway service, trams, ferries, and even building additional subway stations.

While we are building any improvements, including the long overdue Second Avenue Subway, we must make sure that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is transparent by making its construction plans available to the people, open to review and suggestions from the community, and accountable should final decisions be made by the MTA without public comment.

While the Mayor's Congestion Pricing plan may not have been enacted, it is important not to let a greener New York fall by the wayside. As your City Council member I will work with you to implement initiatives that preserve our environment, improve transportation and make New York City a clean, affordable, and accessible place to live.

NYC Century Bike Tour Celebrates 25th Anniversary with “Ride for Vision Zero”

The NYC Century Bike Tour is a one-of-a-kind cycling event. That’s
because all of the routes – 35, 55, 75, or 100 miles – are designed to
show riders the diversity of New York’s neighborhoods and how to
navigate them safely. To illustrate bicyclists’ right to the road,
there are no street closings during the tour – bicyclists ride with
traffic and obey traffic laws.

“There are few things as beautiful as an early morning sea of bikers
coursing through the veins and arteries of New York City’s pathways,
said City Council Member Ben Kallos. “The NYC Century Bike Tour
represents New York City neighborhoods in all our diversity, from the
scenic Rockaways to the Bronx—a real taste of our city’s vast and
varied parks and transportation infrastructure.”

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Bus Riders Hail City Council For Allocating Funds to Install Over 100 New Countdown Clocks at Bus Stops

New York, NY— Members of the Riders Alliance, a grassroots organization of subway and bus riders, thanked members of the City Council on Sunday for allocating City funds to expand the successful “bus countdown clock” program that has been popular in in its first two locations on Staten Island.  The clocks are installed and maintained by the City Department of Transportation (DOT) and are built on new MTA technology that shows where the bus really is at any given moment.

Riders Alliance members had requested that the City Council allocate discretionary funds to bring bus countdown clocks to more communities around the city, and 11 City Council Members responded with funds.   In total, Council Members allocated almost $2.8 million, enough to install more than 100 bus countdown clocks.

Bus countdown clocks will now be appearing in the following City Council districts:

·         Bronx:  Fernando Cabrera ($113,000); Andrew Cohen ($40,000)

·         Brooklyn:  Brad Lander ($240,000); Mark Treyger ($100,000)

·         Manhattan: Margaret Chin ($260,000); Dan Garodnick ($950,000); Corey Johnson ($35,000); Ben Kallos ($640,000)

·         Queens: Eric Ulrich ($180,000); Mark Weprin ($35,000)

·         Staten Island: Steven Matteo ($200,000)