N E I G H B O R S A S S O C I A T I O N ( L I N A )
t r u c k s a f e t y r a l l y
TAKE BACK OUR STREETS
Bring Flashlights & Whistles
For too long, our community has been victimized by illegal tractor
trailer traffic. Broome, Houston and Canal Streets are unlawfully used by more
than a thousand tractor trailers daily. Over-length, over-weight, or off of
the truck route, these monster trucks, thicken our air and lungs with toxic
exhaust, menace pedestrians and motorists alike, destroy public and
private infrastructure, break the peace at night and in general destroy street
life in our community. Trucking will get even worse over the next year when
Fresh Kills is closed on Staten Island. Garbage that is now transferred
out of Manhattan by barge will now be trucked out through the Holland
Tunnel. There will also be additional tractor trailers transporting municipal
waste from Brooklyn. They already number in the hundreds daily.
It's time for action. Join your neighbors, make your voice heard and
protest the inaction by the Mayor's office on, this critical issue.
Join COUNCIL MEMBER KATHRYN FREED, STATE SENATOR TOM DUANE & ASSEMBLY MEMBER
DEBORAH GLICK and demand change.
Your attendance is critical. Bring your kids, pets and drag along your
neighbors. Bring flashlights and whistles. A large turnout is
imperative to create a political issue. The next two years are major election years. Send a message to the politicos that our urban environment must not be
sacrificed to unplanned economic activity. The problem of tractor
trailers impacts communities throughout the City. Activists from Hunters Point,
Flushing, Williamsburg, Red Hook and the West Village have all vowed to
attend.
Our agenda includes:
*24 hour zero tolerance enforcement at the Holland Tunnel &
Williamsburg
and Manhattan Bridges.
*Passage of Council Member Kathryn Freed's legislation that would limit
truck size in NYC to 33 feet. The same limitation is already in place
in Wall Street and Mid-Town.
*Increased recycling budget and legislation that would require all
businesses to recycle.
*For the Dept. Of Transportation to post signs in accordance to law
advising trucks of length, weight and route restrictions.
This rally is sponsored by Trees Not Trucks, Transportation
Alternatives, The Tri-State Transportation Campaign and Right-Of-Way & Friends of Hudson Square.
For more information call TREES NOT TRUCKS (Carl Rosenstein) at 212-343-2881
The Friends of Hudson Square
Board of Directors:
David B. Reck, Pres, Robert Lichtenberger, V. Pres, Eli Hausknecht,
Sec., Queva J. Lutz, Tres., Cynthia Carpathios, Nancy Miller, Martin Sheridan, Joseph Vasta. FHS is a member of the Manhattan Neighborhood Council
HELP END ILLEGAL TRUCKING IN SoHo
CLEAN AIR --- TRUCK SAFETY RALLY
THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 5:30-7:00 PM
BROOME AND LAFAYETTE STREETS
ASSEMBLE AT THE PUFFIN ROOM (435 Broome) AT 5:00 PM
A Volunteer Community Association
512 Greenwich St., NYC, NY 10013
V-(212)966-1899 F-(212)343-0916
