Chapter 7 Recommendations

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AGENCIES

Mayor's Office

Complete negotiations with the New York State Greenway Council concerning the hotel tax mandated by the Hudson Valley Greenway Act, to enable the City to join the other municipalities that are participating in creating a Hudson Valley Greenway system.

NYC Borough Presidents

Establish advisory committees modeled after Bronx Borough President's greenway advisory group to assist in greenway exploration, route development and design, and to recommend effective use of discretionary funds to match federal grants.

NYC and NYS Departments of Transportation

Construct the 1-mile elevated path over the Interboro Parkway to complete the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway.

NYC Departments of Transportation and Parks

Work together to target street renovation projects with tree-planting programs along mapped greenway corridors.

NYC Departments of Transportation, Parks and City Planning

Produce a New York City bicyclist map, showing greenways, bicycle paths and routes, low-traffic streets, and points of interest, to be sold at cost through normal City tourist and publications offices and via the private sector.

To ensure maximum construction and maintenance of greenway routes, at minimum cost, incorporate the greenway and bicycle route recommendations mapped out by the Metropolitan Greenway Com-mittee, Public Space for Public Life, and the Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) into the city's capital project process. Describe route parameters and flag them on the NYC OMB CAPIS computer system.

In conjunction with NY State agencies, secure federal funds available for greenways that are part of highway or mass transit projects or are fundable under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

Adopt as formal policy the Manhattan Borough President's 1992 Comprehensive Manhattan Waterfront Plan.

NY State Dept. of Transportation

Establish statewide public/private task-force modeled on NYC Metro greenways group to oversee distribution of ISTEA enhancement funds. Counties should be represented on the basis of population.

Remove offices from the East River bicycle-pedestrian path at 91st Street (and thereby cure the violation of Section 4(f) of the (U.S.) Dept. of Transportation Act of 1966, (49U.S.C. 1653), that DoT committed by taking parklands where there was a feasible and prudent alternative).