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The city's Summer Streets program, which will transform seven miles of Manhattan streets (from Centre Street to Lafayette Street to Fourth Avenue to Park Avenue, up to East 72nd) into car-free boulevards for three Saturdays, letting people walk, cycle, dance and much more, start this Saturday at 7 a.m. The streets will be vehicle-free until 1 p.m.
The Department of Transportation has a number of activities planned at certain parts of the route--dance classes, fitness classes from Crunch, seminars about bicycle commuting, musical performances. Transportation Alternatives is also offering group rides to Summer Streets from the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. There are even volunteer opportunities.
Here's a map showing the route and all of the accessible cross streets.
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o lordy. some people drive to work on saturdays! as if they dont shut off enough streets and avenues for the many pride parades already!
And it's just terrible that for SIX WHOLE HOURS outdoor space in the city is going to be used by PEOPLE instead of by cars, isn't it?
THIS IS UNACCAPTABLE!!111
PEOPLE IN THE STREETS? BUT THE STREETS ARE ONLY 4 CARS! DUH! who cares about people, anyway?
i'm goning to need 6 hours where they let 18 wheelers and buses ram into central park
The DOT shoved this down the effected communities' throats without any community input.
There was no advance notice to the communities along the route, just a publicity campaign by a slick media consultant firm to 'sell' this idea to the naive public.
If this was such a good idea, why is the city spending millions on an ad campaign to convince people it is a good idea?
The people who live along the route objected at the community board, but were ignored.
The hippy bike-riding DOT commissioner wants it, but fortunately we only have 17 months of her nutty schemes before Bloomberg leaves office.
Better the money were spent on our schools or mass transit.
Hippy bike-riding. Haha, good one.
There goes Mr. "thefacts" again. Pray tell, please cite exactly where any reliable source says the city is "spending millions on an ad campaign to convince people it is a good idea"? You can't? I didn't think so. You should change your user name to "mybaldfacedlies."
"Hippy": Sort of hip? Is there a different between hippy and hippish? Or hippesque?
I'll be out riding on it. People hate on everything on this blog.
thefacts = thestupid
Well, in my neighborhood they started using amplified sound at 910 am and kept dodging the rule ("no amplified sound before 10:00 am") for one-half hour before admitting that "no amplified sound" did not mean it was okay to use amplified sound quietly. [See http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/faq/faq.shtml for rule] In a related matter, if bicyclists are to use NYC streets more fully, I think they should also be trained, licensed, and insured; their vehicles should be registered and inspected for safety; their parking should be regulated; and any violation of the above, or traffic rules, should penalized. Anything short of this is not only reckless, but a liability nightmare for pedestrians and motorists.