As the Prospect Park Youth Advocates stare longingly at the changing leaves outside their classroom windows, daydreaming of a car-free Prospect Park, we begin to reflect on a summer of success.
This summer, four high school students hijacked and revolutionized Transportation Alternatives' historic campaign for a Car-Free Prospect Park.
This summer, three park-side members of the New York City Council rallied for a car-free Prospect Park, and wrote the Mayor in support of a green, safe, healthy, car-free place for young Brooklynites to play.
This summer, Mayor Bloomberg, for the first time in his near eight years in office, said that the City should look into making Prospect Park car-free. "It would be great if we could keep cars out of all parks," he said.
Transportation Alternatives is proud to announce the arrival of our newest, youngest, and certainly smartest staff members, the Prospect Park Youth Advocates. The Prospect Park Youth Advocate Campaign represents T.A.'s first completely youth-oriented and youth-led campaign. These four Brooklyn young people will bring new energy and fresh ideas to T.A.'s 20-year-old quest to rid Prospect Park's loop drive of dangerous and polluting cars.
