Hudsonic Org IRT #3 Transit Improvement Commitee What You Can Do Page

Welcome To The Hudsonic Org IRT #3 Shuttle, The BMT L Train
and The Livonia Ave Walkway Bridge FREE Fare Transfer Point
Transportation Improvement Committees Web Page

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Dear Interested MTA rider and Media Reporter

IRT #3, BMT L Train Article To Be Printed In Newspaper

MTA Ballot Issue #1

MTA Ballot Issue #2

Year 2003 Fare Increase

On Board Political Representative's, Local Businesses, Churches, and NFP Organizations

View Transit Map of Suggested MTA Improvements

Links

Dear: Interested MTA Rider or Media Reporter,

We need your help and feel that after 50 Year’s of riding The MTA Neglect Express. The MTA issues listed below are of “major importance to all Brooklyn N.Y residents”. We would like you to attend one of our regular 6:30 - 8 P.M monthly committee meetings. The Hudsonic Organization has acquired The MTA IRT #3 Transit Committee from UCC. But we still meet on every third Tuesday of the month call for meeting dates { View Page 2 For Monthly Meeting Schedule }. Location at The United Community Day Care Centers Office at 613 New Lots Ave Between Hendrix Street & Schenck Avenue In The ENY Section of Brooklyn N.Y. All Media Reporters are invited this is a long term story that your readers will want to read more about and we ask for you as a concerned Brooklyn residents to attend. Come meet with the committee so we can fully explain the issues stated below. We are also requesting an immediate on going publicity news article with updates, be continuously printed within your own local e-mail newsletter, TV program, or community newspaper to drum up more publicity for our MTA transportation issues. At present we have over 4,500 signatures, there is no deadline date for the return of our MTA petition and newspaper voting ballots from participating readers. Media Rep's please call us, at [212] 631-4218 we need publicity and a guaranteed appearance from you to attend one or more of our quarterly TV Publicity News Cast, or Monthly Meeting Dates. Please print this ongoing valuable story that will benefit not only East New York [ ENY ] and Brownsville Residents, but will speed up and improve service for all Brooklyn MTA Transit Riders when all of the service and construction improvements are finished. The issues in question are fully, explained below and after reading them, we feel you will agree with us to attend a meeting, sign our petition and print this newsworthy story.

We also feel that your readers will agree to the stated issues below by Voting YES, and join with us in this noble and worthy cause. Please place this article within your newsletter or newspaper until further notice, if you cannot print our MTA Voting Ballot Section. Then please print the story for publicity reasons so others may read it. If the reader is interested in participating within our signature petition drive they should download the ballot and e- mail, back to us. Call: Ms. Leonie Bennett {
E-mail: hudsonicorg@yahoo.com or E-mail the single voting ballot/s, or the multiple page MTA signature petition/s list back to The Hudsonic Organizations Office, 375 Fountain Avenue, Suite 4D, Brooklyn N.Y 11208. This will help us acquire more signatures from individual Transit Riders. We need the help of all Brooklyn Community Residents, Block Associations, Churches, Care Centers, Senior Citizen Center Programs, Tenant Associations, and Local not For Profit Organizations to help. For historical documentation, purposes please call and let us know what your newsletter or newspaper name is, the news section, the name of the news article, and the date it will in your newspaper.

       In addition, we have a 15 minute [ LAWB ] documentary video. At present, we are looking for different TV News Programs, to come out and do a complete documentary story to benefit all N.Y.C MTA Riders in the future. We are making history here; this is a typical David and Goliath Story showing how David {The Community} will beat The Giant {MTA} Goliath. Our town hall strategy meetings are geared towards representing a cross section of Individual Transit Riders and Political Representatives from Bed-Sty, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Canarsie, Midwood, Williamsburg, Coney Island, ENY, Brownsville, Bensonhurst, and Bushwick Brooklyn. The MTA has met with us twice, but continuously blocks our efforts and have not moved on any of our suggestions. MTA has also turned down inexpensive service improvement changes we offered! Our communities need answers now as gas prices climb and construction of new homes is bringing in over 50,000 new residents into our community. The MTA does not want to answer for 50 Year’s of Neglect. Truthfully speaking, how do you explain 50 Year’s of share neglect to the public anyway ?
This is a very “HOT”, “HOT”, “HOT” ongoing story. Be part of “ History In The Making By ” !
1. FREE Video =Ask and we will send you a video documentary film of The Livonia Ave Walkway Bridge FREE Fare Transfer Point Reconstruction Project.
2. FREE Video = A Town Hall Meeting with The MTA was video taped and is available for your viewing. To receive a video tape copy ask and we will send the recorded MTA community meeting tape to you. We video taped our town hall meeting with The MTA just for you and for Radio and TV Shows, Motivational, School Classrooms, and Community Organizing Purposes.
E-mail Transit Committee Coordinator: Ms. Leonie Bennett then look on our main Hudsonic Org IRT #3 transit web page for the next monthly Transit Committee Monthly Meeting Date. Meeting are on Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8 P.M at The United Community Center Building @ 613 New Lots Ave Between Hendrix Street & Schenck Avenue In The ENY Section of Brooklyn N.Y. Please Call us “TODAY”, “Because, Brooklyn MTA Transit Riders”?
" NEED YOUR HELP NOW " !

Please Print The Newspaper Article Below
[Only if you have access to a newsletter or newspaper column]
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Attention all NYC MTA riders: We are requesting your help on an urgent matter. The United Community Center Organization began this MTA campaign and in conjunction with The Hudsonic Organization we are working together to bring about local MTA service changes for all NYC passengers. We plan to market and distribute this MTA Signature and Voting Ballot Petitions on a wide scale. Together we hope to improve and make a difference for the riding public of Brooklyn N.Y in the future and we need your help today.

MTA Ballot Issue #1
We, the riding public of Brownsville, East New York, Bed–Sty, Canarsie, Williamsburg, Bensonhurst, Midwood, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Bushwick, and Coney Island Brooklyn would like The MTA to construct a New “East Brooklyn FREE Fare Transfer Point { Please See LAWB Map}. We would also like a Weatherproof Walkway Bridge”, to directly connect, into the IRT #3 Junius Street Train Station on The Brownsville Brooklyn side of the bridge to connect directly into the BMT L Livonia Avenue Train Station on the ENY side of the walkway bridge. The walkway bridge already exist AND WAS ALREADY RECONSTRUCTED In The 1990's BY The MTA. However, it is not a MTA free fare transfer point zone, does not directly access either train station, and should be upgraded, and possess an enclosed weatherproof canopy over the walkway bridge with the bridge split into two walkways. One for train transferring passengers and one side for local resident traffic who need to get on the other side of the bridge for convience. The bridge should include street level handicap and senior citizen access elevators on both sides of the bridge, improved area security, improved street and train station area lighting on both sides of the bridge to illuminate trains stations, bridge and street corners. This way the physically challenge, seniors, MTA passengers, and local residents can freely access and safely cross the [ LAWB ] or go on to board the train with out fear of being mugged, raped, or murdered within the communities area. The [ LAWB ] is utilized by residents pushing baby carriages, senior citizens, wheel chair bound patient's, and residents pushing shopping carts over The Livonia Avenue Walkway Bridge, which crosses over the Brownsville, ENY MTA freight yard.
It takes 4 blocks to roll a wheel chair, or walk South on the Brownsville Junius Street side around the extremely large MTA freight yard. Then you’ll have to wheel chair roll or walk 1 block East on New Lots Ave, and you will have to roll the wheel chair, or walk back 4 blocks North on Van Sinderen Avenue in ENY just to get on the other side. In total you will have wheel chair rolled or walked a total, of 9 blocks just to get around the entire MTA freight yard area walking, or rolling in a wheel chair. Let’s say you will just take the short way home around the Brownsville side of the MTA freight yard to get on the ENY side of Livonia Avenue. You have to walk or wheel chair roll North on the Brownsville Junius Street side, cross over the vehicle carrying Blake Avenue Street Bridge walk or wheel chair roll South down on the Van Sinderen Avenue side just to get around onto the ENY side of the MTA freight yard at Livonia Avenue. In total you would have just walked or wheel chair rolled a total of 5 blocks. That is way we need the Handicap Elevators for the physically challenged, senior citizens and for Women or Men who happen to be walking with a baby carriage or pushing a grocery basket across the bridge. Can you imagine waiting for help, in this desolate area in the middle of the day or night in the dead of Winter, and it is 2 Degrees below Zero? It just gives me “THE CHILLS”! I’ve driven my car by the Livonia Avenue Walkway Bridge for many year’s and have personally seen many women with the old type and new type of baby carriages with two or three small children waiting for someone to come down off of the [LAWB] from ENY just to help them up the 30 stairs on the Brownsville side of the bridge just to cross The Livonia Avenue Walkway Bridge [LAWB] into ENY. I tell you there were a number of times, I personally stopped, got out of my car in the dead of winter, during pouring rain, and during the summer at night and during the day. I have helped a number of local resident's people "I personally did not know", and I help carry their baby carriages and have also helped Senior Citizens walk up the 30 flight of steps onto the { LAWB }. But, sometimes I just did not have the time to help them, and it really hurt me to see someone in need, and I just could not help them out. That is why we strongly believe, that these improvements shall provide a convenient free fare transfer point between trains. Speed up service, relieve congestion, increase security, provide access for the physically challenged, provide access for Senior Citizens and help anyone that has a baby carriage, or shopping cart that needs to get up, across to the other side of the { LAWB } bridge, and also make the entire area safer for all area residents and MTA passengers. These improvements will also give passengers traveling in and out of ENY; Brownsville; Queens, Bushwick, Williamsburg, East Flatbush; Flatbush, Bed-Sty; Canarsie; Crown Heights, Midwood, Bensonhurst, and Coney Island Brooklyn, an alternative route in or out of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens and also provide a new convenient way to arrive at their destinations faster and without paying an additional fare. It is now, more important than ever that a ENY, Brownsville FREE Fare Transfer Point be establish. If the MTA had already established This East Brooklyn FREE Fare Transfer Point Zone. We believe it would presently help to relieve congestion, and speed up service for all Brooklyn residents.
{ See Our MTA Map } Passengers that would normally ride into Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens, on the BMT L, The IND A, C, the BMT Franklin Avenue S Shuttle Train, and the IRT#3 Train Lines. By providing a new, alternative free fare transfer point zone between the Livonia Avenue BMT L, and IRT #3 Junius Street Train Stations located in ENY and Brownsville Brooklyn immediate reconstruction of the transfer point by the MTA could only improve service for the riding public. With over 1000 new homes being built inside of ENY and Brownsville Brooklyn, an additional burden of about 80,000 new daily riders will be placed on an already crowded BMT Franklin Avenue S Shuttle, IND A, C, and BMT L train lines from The East N.Y Train Station in Brooklyn. The Free Fare Transfer Point should have been established back during the 1950’s. We feel its time the MTA’s outdated service plan in Brooklyn caught up with the New Millennium. By voting “YES”, on our MTA Ballot together, we can help to upgrade and change the MTA’s old outdated service plan within ENY and Brownsville Brooklyn. By working together, we can help show the MTA their current service plan shortfalls, and guide them into a new way of looking and thinking of service improvements for all brooklyn daily riders to enjoy in the future. We need to show The MTA “NOW”, how they can improve and transform their old outdated service plan by upgrading and changing it into, The New East Brooklyn FREE Fare Transfer Point Zone located between Brownsville and ENY Brooklyn for fast, convenient, and efficient riding service in the future for all NYC 5 Borough MTA passengers and local residents to enjoy!

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Year 2003 Fare Increase
        The MTA has just instituted a new fare hike! Don't you feel after 50 year's of waiting we deserve a "FREE Fare Transfer Point Zone" ? Please take the time and add your signature to our voting ballot. Let's show the MTA convience plus prompt scheduled service = a successful and valuable system. The MTA's system needs continuity in order for it to work effectively and efficiently. Remember this is a Brooklyn transportation service improvement problem, " Not A Brownsville or ENY Community Problem "! Please keep that in mind as you view our "FREE Fare Transfer Point Zone Map" ! { Page Contents List }

MTA Ballot Issue #2

         The elevated IRT #3 train line between The New Lots and Utica Avenue Train Stations has been experiencing delays ever since I can remember and " I'am 48 Year's Old " ! Trains skip stations, signs are not posted correctly, and the majority of riders don't know from day to day most of the time what will happen when they board the next shuttle train out of the station when exterior structure maintenance is underway. We know that elevated train structures need more maintenance than the under ground train system does but, it has just got out of hand ! I personally feel the only way to clear up this problem is to add a third express track similar to the one the BMT J train line utilizes. This way if track maintenance has to be done, one train just runs up or down on the express track and riders will just have to get off at the Utica or New Lots Avenue Train Stations and have to take the local train back to their desired train stop. I really don't see any logical way of fixing our present problem without installing a new third express track. If you get on the train at the Rockaway Avenue Train Station in Brownsville Brooklyn you'll see old unused railroad wooden tides at certain points just sitting in the middle between the two local train tracks. I can't say for sure, but I will find out and report back to you, but it looks like to me that at one time their might have been an express train running between the two local train tracks. Any how I feel it is the only way to improve service on the IRT #3 line. The MTA say's they always put up structure maintenance signs stating that the shuttle train will be in operation and what stops the train will stop at or skip but. If you ask daily riding passengers if they have seen regular notices posted when construction is ongoing or going to take place ? Most of the daily riding public will tell you that "THEY NORMALLY NEVER SEE ANY SIGNS" ! So either 1.
1. Trains are blowing the signs down as they enter the stations or. 2. Someone is personally pulling down the signs or.
3. The MTA worker that is supposed to hang the signs up puts them up once in a while or.
4. The MTA worker is just taking the shuttle notice signs home and using them for wall paper inside of their home, "You Tell Me" ! Because I still can't figure it out "After 51 Year's" !

Add your signature to our MTA Petition. " aaa-All Aboard ", Let's Give The MTA The Old " Heve Ho " and
STOP The MTA Disrespect Express
At The Station of .....
" POSITIVE CHANGE ",
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On Board Political Representative's, Local Businesses, Churches, and NFP Organizations

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Office
ENY City Councilman Charles Baron
ENY State Assemblywoman Diane Gordon
State Senator John Sampson
ENY State Assemblyman Darryl Towns
ENY Community Board #5
Brownsville Community Board #16
The Strap Hangers Campaign Committee
The Environmental Justice Committee
Help Us Add Your Districts Community Board, Area Political Representatives, Church's, or Organization
Your Name ...........
Should Be Right Here Too "Join Us" ! It's not and ENY or Brownsville Brooklyn Transit Problem Alone. Remember it's all about having continuity throughout the entire Brooklyn MTA System relieving over crowding and, being able to transfer at major train intersections within the system to arrive at your destination faster. Plus the price of gas is going up, that is one of the main reasons why. Our transit improvement campaign makes sense and why you should join us.
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  { Back To Main IRT #3 PAGE # 1 } { Back To IRT # 3 PAGE # 2 } { Increasing Fare Box Revenue and A New Proposed Parking Lot }
{ Livonia Ave Walkway Bridge Reconstruction Means 100's Jobs } { On The Front Line JULY & AUG 2003 News Article }
{ View Our Transit Map of MTA Suggested Improvements }
{ NEW Click Me > Check Out Our Newspaper Comic Strip A - OOOOOO }
"aaa-ALL - A - Board ", " NEXT STOP " ! " Positive Change " !
                   " Watch The Closing DOORS " ! { Air Brake Sound } Shhhh ..
                         Written by: Chairman of The Board - WEb_"MAster Randy Hudson
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