Livable Streets Community

We've got a treat this week for Livable Streets members. Account pages have been upgraded to give you an activity feed -- similar to what you see on the homepage of a Facebook account -- of everything new in your groups. Whether you belong to one group or many, this page is really useful for getting a quick overview of what your fellow Livable Streets activists are up to.

Red light cameras are a hot topic in Connecticut this week as well as New York. Members of the CT Livable Streets Campaign are working to gain ACLU support for a bill that will bring badly needed red light cameras to New Haven. Kirsten Bechtel explains why she, as a driver, wants the cameras:

Some good news comes to us this week of an Upper West Side synagogue's support for Livable Streets. From Gil Kulich on the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance group blog:

If you want to use the Livable Streets Community site to organize in your neighborhood, this week we've got a great example of what you can do with your group.

Our New York readers who've been keeping close tabs on the stalled MTA rescue will want to check out the South Bronx Livable Streets group this week, where Susan Donovan has been blogging about the saga, including yesterday's protest at Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr.'s office. The group is also a great place to join up with others working on issues such as waterfront access in the Lower Concourse rezoning.

This proposal for Brooklyn's Park Circle -- Grand Army Plaza's twin traffic disaster at the opposite end of Prospect Park -- comes from Streetsblog Flickr pool contributor Sean Kenney. Currently, extraneous asphalt and accelerating vehicles abound here (check after the jump for a shot of existing conditions). Says Sean about his re-design:

Livable Streets Community member Dan Latorre has gone above and beyond the call of duty in his activism this month. After prodding Transportation Alternatives' Brooklyn committee to organize their work through a Livable Streets Group, he set up two online conference sessions to teach other members about the array of tools offered and what they're best suited for. The group's 19 members are now busy using their blog and wiki pages to share meeting minutes and other information, and manage their various initiatives. Now, he and fellow group member Kevin Vincent are spearheading a brilliant project to deliver bulk orders of bike rack requests to the DOT.