Local Spokes

Formed in2010 as the Lower East Side-Chinatown Bicycling Coalition, Local Spokes’ nine partner organizations work together to engage local residents to envision the future of bicycling in the diverse neighborhoods of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. We seek to understand the community’s various perspectives through multilingual outreach, community visioning sessions, and a youth ambassadors program. This participatory process will result in the drafting of a conceptual plan and development of additional resources to address potential barriers and increase accessibility to bicycling. Ultimately we hope to create a new model for inclusive and sustainable transportation planning & development.

Local Spokes members include nine partner organizations:

Asian Americans for Equality

Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)

Green Map System

Hester Street Collaborative

Recycle-A-Bicycle

Times Up!

Transportation Alternatives

Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

Velo City

Chinatown Working Group

Since 2009, Two Bridges has actively participated in the Chinatown Working Group (CWG), a community-based planning initiative to help shape the future of Manhattan’s Chinatown, and to formulate and work with New York City agencies to implement a precise, comprehensive, meaningful, timely and broadly supported community-based plan. The CWG stakeholders coalition consists of civic, cultural, community and small business organizations, individuals, representatives of Community Boards 1, 2 & 3, and other interested parties. Two Bridges has a particular interest in issues of housing affordability, preservation, neighborhood revitalization, and the social and economic well being of families, seniors and youths.