"Take a picture, save the city. This just in from our friends at CHEKPEDS (which sort of stands for the Clinton-Hell's Kitchen-Chelsea Coalition for Pedestrian Safety): a new app that you need now more than ever. The same people who created the indepensible Crashmapper are back with "Walkmapper," which allows you to snap a picture of a streetscape defect and report it directly to the city and the elected official in that neighborhood. Manhattan Community Board 4 used it recently to report more than 200 missing pedestrian ramps! (It's also great for reporting a missing bike rack, a broken streetlight, or an ill-timed crosswalk light.)"
"Instead of using the 311 app, and hunting through menus or sometimes being bounced off the app and to a website, "Walkmapper" streamlines and automates what shouldn't be such a damn complex process of helping the city help itself. To download the loooong-needed app, you should click here - and get started on making the city a better place."
CHEKPEDS launched Walkmapper to let users snap photos of streetscape defects and report them directly to the city and local elected officials. Manhattan Community Board 4 used the app to report more than 200 missing pedestrian ramps. Walkmapper handles reports such as missing bike racks, broken streetlights, and mistimed crosswalk lights while avoiding the menus and redirects of the 311 app. The piece also notes that the e-bike problem stems from high-powered motorcycles posing as e-bikes that city enforcement has not removed. Separate incidents include a fatality from an unsecured solar panel, a hit-and-run injuring an 11-year-old, a Range Rover crash in the Hamptons, and a multi-bus crash in Flushing that hurt over a dozen people.
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