New York, NY -- Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez will announce the kickoff of Car Free NYC 2017, with a countdown to a Car Free Day on Earth Day, tomorrow at 9:15am at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Pfizer Auditorium at 5 Metrotech Center.
Following a highly successful Car Free Day on Earth Day in 2016, where several streets in NYC were closed to car traffic and featured activities for city residents, this kickoff will mark the first event in the road to Car Free Day 2017.
The kickoff event will feature presentations from Cubic Transportation Systems, MasterCard and Microsoft, which helped to measure the results of 2016's successful Car Free Day event; Perkins Eastman, who have developed a plan to create a Car Free Broadway; and Transportation Alternatives, discussing their proposal for a "people way" on 14th Street and Grand Street in Brooklyn.
There will also be a panel discussion, exploring the larger policy goals to lower emissions from the transportation sector, investment in public transportation and rethinking the use of space in NYC.
The kickoff event will detail ideas for Car Free Day '17 and discuss the importance of developing a city less reliant on single occupancy vehicles.
What: Car Free Day Kickoff Event
Who: CM Ydanis Rodriguez; Brooklyn BP Eric Adams; Jay Walder, CEO, Motivate; Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives; Jonathan Cohn, President, Perkins Eastman; Cubic Transportation Systems, MasterCard, Microsoft; Regional Plan Association; TWU100; NYU Professor Richard Werner;
Matt Daus, former TLC Chair; and many others as partners, including: NY Restoration Project; Bike New York; iDEKO Productions; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Hornblower; Target; FedEx; ZipCar; Lyft; (full list of participating organizations can be found here:
http://www.carfreeday.nyc/#sponsored-by)
Where: Pfizer Auditorium, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 5 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY
When: Tuesday, January 31st 9:15 AM
