• Tonight: Queens Community Board 2 and City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer host a community planning workshop to help decide where bike-share stations should be sited in Long Island City and Sunnyside. Preliminary maps have already been released for the area. 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
• Tuesday: Barclays Center neighbors get an update on the arena’s transportation demand management plan, which aims to minimize vehicular traffic to the area, from the developer and Empire State Development. 6:00 p.m.
• Thursday: The Department of Transportation hosts a public workshop to gather community input on the redesign of the Zion Triangle and Legion Street Plaza in Brownsville.

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With six lanes of moving traffic, Fourth Avenue is wide and dangerous. From 2006 to 2011, seven people were killed while walking on Fourth between 65th Street and 15th Street, while dozens more were seriously injured. Since last year, DOT has been meeting with CB 7 and local organizations to plan improvements to the street, and this evening the city will present its proposal at a public hearing — two days before CB 7 is scheduled to vote on it. A strong turnout in support of a safer Fourth Avenue could help save lives.

Here are the highlights — check out the calendar for the whole spectrum of events this week.

• Today: At this public hearing sponsored by Brooklyn Community Board 7, DOT will make a presentation on proposed safety improvements for Fourth Avenue. Following the public hearing, there will be a meeting of the Fourth Avenue Working Group. 6:30 p.m.
• Tuesday: For two years, Transportation Alternatives has been helping a group of young people in the Bronx fight for a safer intersection. After thousands of signatures in support of traffic calming for 172nd Street and Townsend Avenue in the Mount Eden neighborhood, they won! Join TA and the Bronx Helpers for a block party to celebrate a little victory that’s going to make a Bronx neighborhood a whole lot safer. 5:30 to 7 p.m.
• Also Tuesday: DOT will present updates on the 86th Street project and the Fourth Avenue Task Force to the Brooklyn CB 10 transportation committee. 7 p.m.
• More on Tuesday: At a meeting of the Brooklyn CB 2 transportation committee, DOT’s bike-share team will present proposed locations for Citi Bike stations. 6:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT and the MTA hold an open house to present design ideas and solicit public comments on Webster Avenue Select Bus Service. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Thursday: In Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, there are New Yorkers who rely on buses to get from A to B. But even the most important buses in the neighborhood, like the B4, often don’t run up to snuff. Join TA, Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz and Sheepshead Bites for a Sheepshead Bay Transit Rider Town Hall. 7 p.m.
• Saturday: Test ride a bike-share bike, ask questions and give feedback about the program at a Brooklyn Flea bike-share demonstration. 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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The Manhattan community board action continues later in the week as committees address safety and street improvement issues in Harlem, Chinatown and the East Side. Also: You’re invited to join us Wednesday at Red Lantern in Fort Greene for happy hour with the Streetsblog and Streetfilms crew.

• Today: The Manhattan Community Board 6 Public Safety, Environment & Transportation Committee will discuss several proposals for the East Side: bike-share station sitings; the DOT plan for cross-town bike lanes along E. 29th and 30th Streets; and E. 34th Street Select Bus Service. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: Join the Streetsblog and Streetfilms team for an evening of fun and films at the Red Lantern cafe and bike shop in Brooklyn. Celebrate the growing livable streets movement and meet the stars of the My NYC Biking Story Streetfilms. 8 to 10 p.m.
• Wednesday: The Manhattan CB 3 transportation committee will take up the Chinatown curbside study; the co-naming of Delancey Street for slain pedestrian Dashane Santana; and a training program for delivery cyclists. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT present proposed safety improvements for Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard to the Manhattan CB 10 transportation committee. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: Manhattan CB 2 and NYU’s Office of Government and Community Affairs host a panel discussion on East River bridge tolls, congestion pricing and related issues, with panelists Paul Steely White (Transportation Alternatives), Kate Slevin (Tri-State Transportation Campaign), Hope Cohen (Regional Plan Association) and transportation analyst Charles Komanoff. Q&A follows. 6 p.m.
• Thursday: MTA New York City Transit shares the results of its study on Staten Island North Shore transit. 6:30 p.m.
• Saturday: Now in its fifth year, National Train Day is back to celebrate train travel and the ways trains touch the lives of people with events across America. Saturday’s event at Grand Central Terminal will feature live entertainment, interactive and educational exhibits, kids’ activities, model train displays and tours of Amtrak equipment, freight and commuter trains, and notable private railroad cars. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The week kicks off with an important meeting on the future of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, one of the deadliest streets in the five boroughs. Lined with several schools, Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park is a major walking destination for children and families. It’s also a high-speed traffic disaster: From 2008 to 2010 alone, three pedestrians lost their lives in crashes on the stretch that DOT and Community Board 7 will discuss tonight. The public is invited to attend, and support for traffic calming measures could save lives.

• Today: At a meeting of the Brooklyn Community Board 7 Fourth Avenue working group, DOT will present preliminary plans for safety improvements to Fourth from 15th to 65th Streets in Sunset Park. The plans are based on community visioning sessions held in February and March. As with any community board committee, public input is crucial. The DOT flier is here. CB 7 board room, 4201 Fourth Ave.; entrance on 43rd St. 7 p.m.
• Today: The Manhattan CB 5 transportation committee will be holding two back-to-back meetings. The first will feature a presentation by NYU’s Wagner School: “A Capstone Project: A Study of the Penn Station Area.” The second meeting will feature a presentation from the city’s Department of Design and Construction on the revised design for Broadway between W. 42nd and W. 47th Streets. 6 p.m.
• Tuesday: The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management presents “Technology and Urban Mobility: Perspectives from the Front Lines,” a look into technology’s influence on mobility management in New York City. Featuring representatives from the MTA, the Port Authority and Jeff Maki of OpenPlans. 8:30 a.m. RSVP online.
• Tuesday: Would you like to bicycle (or bike more), but don’t feel comfortable riding in city traffic? Volunteers from the Five Borough Bicycle Club will explain your rights to the road, the skills needed to assert them, and how to safely fit in with motor vehicles and ride without stressing out. Hosted by the Park Slope Food Co-Op. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT is holding information sessions on its NYC Plaza Program in each borough. Wednesday’s session will be on Staten Island. 10 a.m.
• Wednesday: The transportation committee of Manhattan CB 8 will discuss bike-share for Roosevelt Island. 6:30 p.m.

• Thursday: Karen Rae, New York State deputy secretary of transportation, will be the featured speaker at a luncheon entitled “New York Works: Connecting the Dots Between Infrastructure and Economic Development.” Rae will “discuss the plans of the state to invest in those critical infrastructure projects necessary to promote and increase economic development, creating jobs, addressing transportation’s financial needs, and improving the state and the region’s economic vitality.” 11:45 a.m. RSVP by tomorrow (May 1). Entrance fee required.
• Thursday: Ahead of Sunday’s Five Boro Bike Tour, Bike Expo New York will give residents and visitors a look at urban cycling. The expo will feature vendors, live-performances, hands-on programming, bike gear giveaways and free bicycle classes for youths and adults. Bike Tour packets may also be obtained at the expo. Pier 36 in Manhattan. Thursday noon to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Friday: DOT hosts the Brooklyn public plaza program info session. 3 p.m.
• Saturday: Transportation Alternatives and Ethikus, a non-profit that promotes ethical purchasing decisions, will host a Bike Friendly Business Ride. The brief tour will visit bike friendly businesses, community gardens and some of the city’s best bike lanes. Free lemonade and pierogies from Bike Friendly Business Veselka along the way, and a free barbeque in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park at the end of the ride. 1 p.m.
• Saturday: Grand Central library and DOT present an opportunity to check out bike-share bikes. Come see the bikes, ask questions and pick up free bike giveaways. 2 to 4 p.m.

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• Tuesday: A panel including Washington D.C. planning director Harriet Tregoning discusses how arts and culture affect urban livability and placemaking, and how to measure the connection. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT’s ongoing series of information sessions about its pedestrian plaza program hits the Bronx. 10:00 a.m.
• Also Wednesday: Second Avenue Sagas’ Ben Kabak interviews the MTA’s Michael Frumin about Bus Time and other transit information projects. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: Clean tech organization E3Think hosts another conference in its “Transportation Transformation” series, looking at everything from electric cars to bike-sharing, ferries, rickshaws and the use of information technologies. Sam Schwartz and Charles Komanoff will speak on Sam’s traffic plan. 7:30 a.m.
• Friday: The Regional Plan Association hosts its annual regional assembly. Guests include Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, and the mayors of New Haven, Hoboken, and White Plains. 8:30 a.m.
• Also Friday: Dan Graham, an expert in transportation economics and statistics from London, gives a lecture on the economic benefits of transportation investment. 9:30 a.m.

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• Tuesday: Matthew Modine speaks at the New York League of Conservation Voters’ Green Professionals Mixer about his Bicycle for a Day initiative. 6:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: Manhattan Community Board 4′s transportation committee gets a look at a preliminary map of the district’s bike-share station locations. 6:30 p.m.
• Also Wednesday: Velo City put on its third annual benefit. Help support an organization that gets young people on bicycles and thinking about their city. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: The Taxi and Limousine Commission holds a public hearing on its plan to allow licensed livery cabs to pick up street hails outside the Manhattan central business district. 9:00 a.m.
• Friday: The Department of Transportation hosts an information session on its plaza program, this time in Manhattan. 10:00 a.m.

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Also, planning for the launch of New York City’s new bike-share system enters a new phase this week, with the first community board seeing a proposal for a final map of station locations. After extensive public outreach, bike-share is starting to become a reality.

• Tonight: Hear some of New York City’s leading transportation techies talk about their projects, from real-time bus information and the MTA’s plans for a new fare payment system to taxi GPS analysis, in an event at NYU’s Rudin Center. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: Representative Joe Crowley, City Council Member Daniel Dromm and Transportation Alternatives host a town hall for Elmhurst residents to talk transit. Expected to be on the agenda are the neighborhood’s crowded buses and the possibility of reopening the LIRR station at Broadway and Whitney Avenue. 6:00 p.m.
• Also Wednesday: After a collaborative planning workshop in March, Manhattan Community Board 3 is ready to get a look at where bike-share stations might actually end up. The board’s transportation committee sees a proposal for a final bike-share map for the area at its monthly meeting. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: State Senator Gustavo Rivera and Transportation Alternatives host a transit town hall for Fordham Heights straphangers. Select Bus Service, which runs through the area and has cut travel times dramatically, will be up for discussion. 6:00 p.m.
• Friday: Clifford Winston, a transportation economist with the Brookings Institution, gives a speech at Baruch College. He will present public sector reforms to improve the efficiency of U.S. transportation policy, but then argue that privatization would be more effective still. 9:30 a.m.
• Also Friday: DOT hosts an open house in Queens for interested parties to learn more about the city’s pedestrian plaza program. 3:00 p.m.

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• Tonight: Join the Carbon Squeeze for its second event on the Upper West Side, featuring Colin Beavan, better known as No Impact Man and executive director of the No Impact Project. Leave inspired to conduct your own No Impact Week. 7 p.m.
• Tuesday: Join the Transportation Alternatives East Side Volunteer Committee for a meeting and bike ride. On hand will be representatives of local pols to talk about the UN land swap that holds the key to filling the gap in the East River Greenway. Please note the meeting will be hosted at Union Settlement, not the Vanderbilt YMCA. The bike ride starts at the Y at 6:00 sharp; the meeting follows at 6:30. Details here.
• Wednesday: Jon Orcutt, NYC DOT policy director and Wagner School adjunct professor, and Linda Bailey, NYC DOT federal programs adviser, will discuss federal transportation spending and the politics surrounding H.R. 7, the recently introduced House bill which would imperil funding for public transit, pedestrian, and cycling projects.
• Thursday: Manhattan Community Board 7 will host a bike-share workshop for the Upper West Side. Sessions begin at 6 and 7 p.m.
• Thursday: The Graduate Program in Urban Design, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, is pleased to announce the eighth annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, featuring NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. 6:30 p.m. No reservations required.

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• Today: Manhattan Community Board 8 will hold a bike-share workshop for Lenox Hill and the Upper East Side. Sessions to begin at 6 and 7 p.m.
• Today: The Park Slope Civic Council is planning a temporary pilot project on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, between Bergen and Degraw, to serve as an example of how the street can better serve all users. Join the PSCC for a pilot project workshop this evening at 6 p.m.
• Today: The transportation committee of Manhattan CB 5 will discuss, among other items, DOT’s proposed crosstown bike lanes for 29th and 30th Streets, while DOT will reveal plans for new mid-block pedestrian crossings from 51st Street to 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. 6 p.m.
• Tuesday: The City Council Transportation Committee will take up mayoral vetoes of the muni-meter grace period and the ban on sanitation stickers for cars that block street sweepers. Also on the agenda: the livery passenger bill of rights and DOT web site accessibility. 9:30 a.m.
• Tuesday: DOT hosts an open house on new design concepts for Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue between 15th and 65th Streets. 6:30 p.m.

• Wednesday: The Regional Rail Working Group will discuss near-term strategies to advance the Penn Station Metro-Hub plan, including a “pilot” for all day service linking points in New Jersey with points in the Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut; and PATH/NYCT fare integration. 6 p.m.
• Wednesday: WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein will lead a panel discussion on transit, sustainability and climate change. Featured panelists are David Bragdon, director of the mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability; Projjal K. Dutta, MTA sustainability initiatives director and an expert in environmental design and transportation; and Dr. Klaus H. Jacob, research scientist and professor at Columbia University. 6 p.m.
• Wednesday: After the hit-and-run death of cyclist Ronald Tillman in Grymes Hill, advocates will be seeking public input on street conditions at the Howard Avenue Traffic Safety Community Forum. The meeting will take place at Wagner College, where Tillman was a student. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: DOT continues its series of workshops on safety improvements for Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard. 6 p.m.
• Saturday: The BK Gateway Transportation Workshop will address congestion, traffic and street safety in Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Northern Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. 10 a.m.

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• Tuesday: TLC Commissioner David Yassky will lead a talk on five-borough taxi service, which will legalize street hails for 18,000 livery cabs. 8:30 a.m.
• Wednesday: Brooklyn Community Board 3 hosts a planning workshop on bike-share in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Sessions at 6 and 7 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT will present plans for the extension of protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues to the Manhattan CB 4 transportation committee. Also on the agenda: an update on planned improvements to 34th Street. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT will hold a Spanish language bike-share presentation at El Puente in Williamsburg. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: Brooklyn CB 1 hosts a bike-share planning workshop for Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Sessions at 6 and 7 p.m.
• Friday: Steve Vaccaro, a daily cyclist and lawyer representing cyclists and cycling organizations, will speak and take questions on cycling law topics, including the role of the police and the district attorney in crashes, how to navigate the no-fault process, and the recent ticket blitzes in Central and Prospect Parks. Presented by the Five Borough Bike Club. 6:30 p.m.

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• Tuesday: Manhattan Community Board 1 will hold a bike-share planning workshop for Tribeca, Battery Park City, City Hall and the Financial District. 6-8 p.m. 
• Tuesday: The Manhattan CB 2 transportation committee will discuss box-blocking and traffic calming on Broome and Kenmare streets. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: Manhattan CB 3 will review pedestrian safety measures for Delancey Street. 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: At a public meeting, DOT and MTA staff will present the final plan for Hylan Boulevard Select Bus Service. 7 p.m.
• Wednesday: Manhattan CB 5 hosts a bike-share planning workshop for Midtown, Times Square and the Flatiron District. 6 p.m.
• Thursday: The third bike-share workshop of the week will take place in Brooklyn, care of CB 6, which covers Park Slope, Gowanus, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. 6:30 p.m. 
• Thursday: NYMTC will hold a public information session on bike and pedestrian infrastructure for the 2015-2040 Regional Transportation Plan. 6:30 p.m.; also available online.
• Sunday: The NYC Street Memorial Project will hold the 7th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk to honor city cyclists who lost their lives in the last year. The event starts at 11 a.m.; check the Ghost Bikes web site for schedule updates.

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The big-picture discussion this week is happening at NYU Law School, where Jon Orcutt and Charles Komanoff will be the stars at a forum about the city’s attempts to curb congestion through road pricing, bike lanes, parking policy and transit service. During the conversation, Komanoff will unveil details of “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz’s new road pricing plan, featured in the New York Times today.

• Tonight: Manhattan CB 6′s transportation committee debates a proposal to stripe crosstown bike lanes on 29th and 30th Streets. 7:00 p.m.
• Tuesday: Help plan where bike-share stations will go in Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens at a workshop hosted by Community Boards 8 and 9, as well as City Council Members Letitia James and Al Vann. 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT’s Jon Orcutt and congestion pricing advocate Charles Komanoff discuss the city’s efforts to speed people’s commutes at a forum held by NYU Law. 12:25 p.m.
• Also Wednesday: On the Upper East Side, CB 8′s transportation committee discusses two motorist proposals to annex curbside space: removing a bus stop and reducing metered parking hours. 6:30 p.m.
• Saturday: In preparation for a commemorative ride, the NYC Street Memorial Project is holding a work day to make and install ghost bikes honoring slain cyclists. 11:00 a.m.

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• Tonight: Community Board 3 hosts a bike-share planning workshop for the East Village, Lower East Side, Little Italy and east Chinatown. 6:30 p.m. And: The first in a series of events from the Carbon Squeeze, a group of Upper West Siders who have banded together to uncover practical ways to reduce their carbon output. 7 p.m.
• Tuesday: The aforementioned Prospect Park Task Force forum begins at 6:00 p.m.; the CB 9 pedestrian plaza event starts at 7:00.
• Also Tuesday: The public will have two opportunities this week to comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Tappan Zee Bridge. Discarding years of planning, Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing a super-sized Tappan Zee that includes no plans for transit, no known price tag and no definitive funding formula. Tuesday’s hearing will take place in Rockland County (4-9 p.m.); the second is on Thursday in Westchester (4-9 p.m.). Comments will also be accepted by e-mail until March 15. See TSTC’s Tappan Zee site for details.
• More Thursday: The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) holds its annual meeting, “Infrastructure at a Crossroads: Financing the Region’s Transportation Needs,” featuring state DOT commissioner Joan McDonald. 11 a.m.
• Saturday: Queens Community Board 2 hosts a bike forum, where the public can share ideas with DOT staff. 10 a.m.

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This is also a big week for bike-share planning, with Manhattan Community Board 3 and Brooklyn Community Board 2 hosting public workshops to discuss where public bike stations should go.

• Tuesday: The Rudin Center hosts a conversation with James Vacca. 8:30 a.m. RSVP online.
• Also Tuesday: Where should bike-share stations go in East Midtown and the Upper East Side? Community Board 6 and local electeds host a public workshop about station siting with NYC DOT. 6 p.m.
• More Tuesday: NYC DOT’s Park Smart program has cut traffic while allowing more drivers to access shops in Park Slope. At this presentation to Queens Community Board 2, DOT will explore bringing smarter prices for curbside parking to the congested streets of Long Island City. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: Community Board 2 hosts a public workshop to plan where bike-share stations should go in Downtown Brooklyn and surrounding neighborhoods. Two sessions: one beginning at 6 p.m. and another at 7 p.m.

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On Wednesday the City Council Public Safety Committee and Transportation Committee are holding a joint oversight hearing looking into NYPD crash investigations and traffic enforcement. If you would like to testify at the hearing, you can send an e-mail to TA’s Juan Martinez by this evening, with the subject line “Feb. 15.”

• Monday: Join the East Village Community Coalition and Local Spokes for a workshop to envision the East Village as a better neighborhood for cycling. 6:00 p.m.
  
• Wednesday: Peter Vallone and James Vacca hold a joint oversight hearing on NYPD crash investigations and traffic enforcement, titled “Proceeding with Caution – An Examination of NYPD’s accident response and enforcement of traffic rules relating to cars, bikes, and trucks.” 10 a.m.
  
• Also Wednesday: A one-block extension of the 2nd Street bike lane, the permanent design of Forsyth Plaza, and a speed bump on Orchard are on the agenda of the Manhattan CB 3 Transportation Committee. 6:30 p.m.
• More Wednesday: The Museum of the City of New York hosts a panel about NYC DOT’s innovative reallocation of city street space, featuring “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz, NYC DOT deputy commissioner Bruce Schaller, and the RPA’s Jeff Zupan. Reservations required. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: NYC DOT takes its bike-share presentation to Chinatown for public information sessions in Mandarin and Cantonese. The Mandarin presentation starts at 3 p.m., and the Cantonese one starts at 4.
• Also Thursday: The public workshop to help design Fowler Square in Fort Greene is an important one for local residents to attend. Community Board 2 has voted for the plaza, but a small yet vocal contingent of opponents disrupted a plaza workshop last year. 6 p.m.
• And More on Thursday: Join Assembly Member Marcos Crespo and Transportation Alternatives’ Rider Rebellion for a town hall discussion about how to improve transit in the Bronx. 6:30 p.m

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Also on the calendar this week:

• Monday: Join Manhattan Community Board 2, local residents and business owners at a roundtable planning workshop to help decide how bike share should work and where stations should be sited in the West Village, Tribeca and and SoHo. Street-savvy participants are needed for this key meeting, which starts at 6 p.m.
• Also tonight: The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 6 will take up the DOT proposal for crosstown bike lanes on East 29th and 30th streets from 1st to 8th avenues, as well as a request from the 13th Precinct for an eastbound left turn lane marking on East 20th Street at 1st Avenue.
• Tuesday: The Manhattan CB 2 transportation committee will discuss how to mitigate “congestion, noise and hazardous conditions from intense vehicular traffic on the Kenmare-Lafayette-Broome Street section of the route from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Holland Tunnel.”
• Thursday:  NYC DOT will present its Classon Avenue traffic calming proposal to Brooklyn Community Board 8. 
• Also Thursday: DOT and electeds will hold a public workshop to discuss the future of Fourth Avenue between 15th and 65th streets.

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• Tuesday: People who live and work on Manhattan’s West Side can help choose where bike-share stations will go in Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea at a workshop hosted by Community Board 4. 6:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: Second Avenues Sagas author Ben Kabak interviews former MTA open data expert Sarah Kaufman about how technology is reshaping public transportation, part of a series at the New York Transit Museum. 6:30 p.m.

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• Tonight: Adolfo Carrión hosts a town hall meeting in the Bronx to discuss the ongoing efforts, funded by the federal government, to promote transit-oriented development around the borough’s Metro-North stations. 6:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: DOT brings its bike-share demonstration to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, showing commuters the new transit option they’ll have access to later this year. 3:00 p.m.
• Friday: Andrew Cuomo hosts his fellow Democratic governors for a conference promoting public-private partnerships in infrastructure construction. 8:00 a.m.
• Saturday: DOT’s bike-share demo moves down to the Lower East Side’s Essex Street Market. 12:00 p.m.

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Also: Tonight the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 2 will consider a proposal from local residents to stripe a bike lane on Lafayette Avenue, and the city’s extensive public outreach for its bike-share program continues, with discussions in both English and Spanish.

• Today: James Vacca’s City Council Transportation Committee won’t discuss the MTA budget, but will tackle four separate ways to make it more convenient to park illegally. 1:00 p.m.
• Tonight: Brooklyn CB 2′s transportation committee discusses the proposal for a bike lane on Lafayette Avenue, which has 1,400 signatures supporting it. 6:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: Manhattan Community Board 4′s transportation committee discusses both bike-share and bike lanes. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: A panel hosted by the Women’s City Club tackles the funding challenges facing the MTA’s capital program. 12:30 p.m.
• Also Thursday: The Department of Transportation continues its bike-share outreach with a Spanish-language presentation at Grand Street Settlement 6:00 p.m.
• Saturday: The Park Slope Civic Council discusses whether, where, and how to bring 20 mph zones to the neighborhood. 11:45 a.m.

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• Tuesday: The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 7 discusses a proposal to turn part of 59th Street one-way, continues debating electric bicycles, and hears a presentation from Streetsblog publisher Mark Gorton on the place of the automobile in New York City. 7:00 p.m.
• Wednesday: To mark the opening of an exhibit on New York City’s plans for bike-share, the American Institute of Architects hosts a conversation between DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Alta Bicycle Share President Alison Cohen. 6:00 p.m.
• Also Wednesday: The Department of Design and Construction gives Manhattan CB 3′s transportation committee an update on the Forsyth Street Plaza planned for the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. 6:30 p.m.
• Thursday: Former Lieutenant Governor and MTA chief Richard Ravitch speaks to the Transportation Research Forum about the economic consequences of underfunding infrastructure. 11:45 a.m.
• Friday to Sunday: Recycle-A-Bicycle hosts the second annual Youth Bike Summit, a national conference that brings young people together to explore “how bicycling can be a legitimate and safe form of transportation for today’s youth.” Rep. Nydia Velazquez will give the conference’s keynote address on Saturday. Friday, 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 8:30 a.m. Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

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