Our friends at Transportation Alternatives are hosting a community workshop next week geared toward making safety improvements on Brooklyn’s Jay Street, “a critical connector to the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge [that] lacks the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure needed to protect New Yorkers from dangerous traffic.” Jay Street was an area of particular concern for cyclists who participated in the the BK Gateway Vision, a 2012 report released by Tri-State, then-Councilmember Letitia James, the Park Slope Civic Council, the Boerum Hill Association and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council that highlights the transportation and land use challenges facing Downtown Brooklyn.

The T.A. Brooklyn Activist Committee hopes to secure “protected bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, bike corrals and other traffic calming measures” to curb speeding and other dangerous behaviors. RSVP here if you’d like to help transform Jay Street into a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly corridor.

The Jay Street Safety Community Planning Forum will be held on March 10 at 6:30 p.m. at 1 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn (in the National Grid Lobby).