Get Involved

If you like the vision42 proposal, please sign our Online Petition and consider sending Mayor Eric Adams and your other elected representatives a message, urging them to support an
auto-free light rail boulevard for 42nd Street.

Contact local officials

You can copy this letter and/or use your own words. Then send it to Mayor Eric Adams or your other representatives at:

Mayor Eric Adams
City Hall
New York, NY 10007

PHONE: (212)-788-3000
FAX (212) 788-2460

Dear Mayor Adams (or other representatives):

We urge you to reassess the role of the automobile in our pedestrian-and-mass-transit city. New Yorkers and visitors from around the world deserve an alternative to the current overcrowded sidewalks and sooty gridlock caused by cars and buses along 42nd Street. There is another way! Property owners, straphangers, tourists, theater goers, security consultants, disability advocates, and community groups are all getting behind the vision42 proposal to convert 42nd Street into a landscaped, auto-free light rail boulevard.

The vision42 plan can, within tight time and budget constraints, provide a low-floor, pedestrian-friendly light rail line running river-to-river in a dedicated right-of-way, within a vastly improved walking environment. It should very nicely complement the subways, creating first class surface transit that will be a truly effective competitor to private motoring. The landscaped, auto-free street will become a destination in itself, rather than a place to be avoided. And the vision42  project could ultimately set the pace for a future network of such streets throughout the City’s five boroughs.

We hereby request the City of New York to seriously consider the vision42 plan as a dynamic alternative to the continued dysfunctional condition of surface transit and the walking environment on this very central street of our city and region.

Sincerely,

Join the working group

If you would like to contribute your ideas, efforts, and possible expertise toward realizing this project, please consider joining the vision42 working group.

The project benefits greatly from the contributed talents and efforts of our volunteers — these have included brainstorming, assisting at presentations, website editing and updating, attending community board meetings, and designing leaflets and images for this website.

We normally meet on the third Tuesday of each month — see NEWS/Meetings & Events, from 6pm to 8pm, at a central midtown office. If you are interested in participating and would like to receive the Agenda, please contact us.

Contact the vision42 team

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