EV Grieve: Tonight: Discussion about the 'Tompkins Square ...

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As you may recall, CB3 member Chad Marlow, and the group that he founded in 2011, the Tompkins Square Park & Playground Parents? Association (TSP3A), are kicking off a major neighborhood safety initiative.

Allow me to cut-and-paste this from the previous post on the topic:

It involves applying to the Department of Transportation to have them create what the group is calling the "Tompkins Square/Alphabet City Slow Zone" (TSACSZ).

The TSACSZ, in short, is an effort to improve pedestrian safety for children and all others who live/work/play in the proposed 0.38 square-mile zone by reducing motor vehicle speeds. As Marlow writes, the slow zone program "takes a well-defined, relatively compact area, and reduces its speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour, with further reductions to 15 miles per hour near schools."

And tonight, the proposal gets the CB3 committee treatment:

Transportation & Public Safety / Environment Committee
Tuesday, May 7 at 6:30pm ? Community Board 3 Office, 59 East 4th Street (btwn 2nd Ave & Bowery)

? Request for support of the proposed "Tompkins Square/Alphabet City Slow Zone"

Marlow introduced the proposal with this op-ed first published in The Villager.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Call for an East Village 'slow zone' (34 comments)

Source: http://evgrieve.com/2013/05/tonight-discussion-about-tompkins.html

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