Columbus Avenue BID outlines new traffic initiatives.At its eighth annual meeting, The Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) celebrated its recent achievements and outlined seminal initiatives, including a major "place-making" effort to create a greener, calmer and reduced trafficked area within the BID district, which extends along the avenue from West 67th to West 82nd Streets. The rousing hour-and-a-half meeting at Isabella's on Columbus Avenue and West 77th Street was packed to capacity with business leaders, property owners, merchants and elected officials. The keynote speaker, Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, outlined various traffic calming traffic calming n → reducción f de la velocidad de la circulación traffic calming n → ralentissement m de la circulation measures and the affects on traffic flow and quality of life in the City. Transportation Alternatives is considered the leading pedestrian and transportation reform group in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and is currently working with the Mayor's office on congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. pricing and other programs. Mr. White commended the BID as a local leader in traffic calming initiatives and said he hoped it would become the testing ground for preliminary trials. In addition to working with Transportation Alternatives, the Columbus Avenue BID has retained Project for Public Spaces Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. Planning and design rooted in the community forms the cornerstone of PPS’s philosophy. Building on the techniques of William H. (PPS (Packets Per Second) The measurement of activity in a local area network (LAN). In LANs such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, as well as the Internet, data is broken up and transmitted in packets (frames), each with a source and destination address. ) for a study on place-making initiatives. "The BID's beautification beau·ti·fy tr. & intr.v. beau·ti·fied, beau·ti·fy·ing, beau·ti·fies To make or become beautiful. beau programs, such as our annual plantings and pedestrian lighting, have already contributed greatly to the avenue's popularity," pointed out Barbara Adler, executive director of the Columbus Avenue BID. "Now our mission is to make Columbus Avenue even more of a destination by creating appealing public spaces where people will want to stop and linger and enjoy all the Avenue has to offer." Towards this goal, Adler announced an upcoming three-hour workshop/ charette and dinner on September 10 at the American Museum of Natural History American Museum of Natural History, incorporated in New York City in 1869 to promote the study of natural science and related subjects. Buildings on its present site were opened in 1877. , sponsored by the BID and produced by Project for Public Spaces. Information regarding the complimentary event is being made available on the Community Board 7/Manhattan website, www.CB7.org, or by calling the BID office at 212-721-5048. |
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