Broadway the Rivertowns (Sleepy Hollow through Hastings-on-Hudson) is set up for one thing: cars. Now's the time to change it. We need a Broadway everybody can use.
The State Department of Transportation wants feedback on their Route 9 Complete Streets proposal (which runs from the Old Dutch Church in Seepy Hollow to Hastings-on-Hudson's south end). Giving that feedback right now is crucial because the plans are still in flux. But in a few days, the edits will be finalized, and that's what will get built.
The DOT's proposal falls short of the vision and goals that 220 community members clearly communicated to the DOT in March. Applying our political power now can ensure the DOT does a GREAT job. (Here is what a GREAT job looks like.)
Click the link for where you live:
We need to flood the zone. Get as many people as possible to help too. Take this flyer and give it to friends, post it in public places, etc.
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Bike Tarrytown was founded because we kept meeting people who said they want to ride bikes for local errands, but are too scared. So in three months we photographed 100 people seeking safe streets.
The lack of safe bike infrastructure forces them to drive places -- using parking spaces when they get there, while creating congestion, pollution and crashes along the way.
Guess what were the #2 and #4 things people most requested during Tarrytown's Comprehensive Plan outreach process? "Deploy Complete Streets... starting with Routes 9 & 119" and "Bike Infrastructure."
Sleepy Hollow's Comprehensive Plan received similar public input. Improving biking and walking infrastructure was the most frequent desire at the first workshop and 30 people came to a Trustee meeting in support safer streets, plus 50 emails and 10 postcards were written.
Many merchants we've spoken with are in favor of a protected lane being built on Broadway for human scale mobility devices, because more people means more profit. There's wide spread agreement that improving parking management is an important part of the process.
To this end, we are organizing public support for the Route 9 Active Transportation Project.
Here's our two page primer on the topic (PDF):
The Journal News created a nice article and video about the campaign.
Our op-ed in the Hudson Independent, paired with the Chamber of Commerce's positive take on the matter: web, PDF.
Here's how the Hudson Independent covered the study's Final Report. We wrote a Letter to the Editor to clarify that "we continually meet people tired of being forced to drive" due to our infrastructure not welcoming walking, cycling and transit.
Our Director wrote the report of Sleepy Hollow's recommendations to the Route 9 study. He gave a presentation about it to the Board of Trustees (video, slides), joined by 10 residents in the audience -- a record for a Work Session? :). Here are responses to the various concerns Mayor Wray and the Trustees raised.
We're working tirelessly to ensure Broadway is safe for accessing the Tappan Zee Bridge's biking/walking path (opening ~mid-2019). Our two most recent letters on the topic are about getting a crosswalk where the TZB path reaches Broadway and a properly wide, safe connection to the OCA at Lyndhurst. Further efforts are linked to from those pages.
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Our letter requesting NYS DOT implement snow removal policies for protected bike lanes.
History of how Sleepy Hollow's prior Mayor blocked the Route 9 project.
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