Eastern Queens

With monthly meetings, social bike rides and local activism, the Eastern Queens Activist Committee brings people together to change streets on the local level.

No experience is necessary to join in, just a commitment to improving public transit, bicycling and walking in the borough you love.

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Our Team

Laura Shepard
TA Eastern Queens Organizer

Joby Jacob
Volunteer Chair, TA Eastern Queens Activist Committee

Come to Our Monthly Meeting

You can make real, tangible changes to how streets and sidewalks function in Eastern Queens.

The Eastern Queens Activist Committee chooses local campaigns and fights for changes on-the-ground in their neighborhoods, like bike lanes and new pedestrian plazas.

Come to the next meeting to get involved in making these campaigns a success.

Every third Monday of every month at 7 p.m.

We meet via Zoom

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Support Our Active Campaigns

These are the campaigns the Eastern Queens Activist Committee chose for this year.

Eastern Queens Campaigns

Finish the Protected Bike Lane Network in Eastern Queens

We must continue the momentum and quickly roll out necessary improvements to the bike network in Eastern Queens to help our most vulnerable road users.

Southeast Queens Needs a Safe Bike Network

We need protected bike lanes to calm our streets and to protect our pedestrians, cyclists, seniors, and children in Southeast Queens.

Complete the Kissena Way

A family-safe infrastructure connecting and improving Queens parks will benefit all people who live, work, and play in the Flushing Main Street neighborhoods, and visitors from all of Queens.

Motor Parkway East

Completing the Motor Parkway Greenway to Long Island creates safe transportation and recreation options for Eastern Queens residents; support Motor Parkway East.

Complete Street for Utopia Parkway

Utopia Parkway is an integral North-South street in Eastern Queens that thousands of students cross on a daily basis, risking their lives every time they go to school; support Complete Street for Utopia Parkway.

Support Protected Bike Lanes in Bayside and Oakland Gardens

Tell CB11Q and your elected officials why you need protected bike lanes to connect homes and schools to parks and greenways; support Protected Bike Lanes in Bayside and Oakland Gardens.

Our History

We proudly fought for protected bike lanes on Northern Boulevard, where Transportation Alternatives member Michael Schenkman was killed cycling to the Joe Michael's Mile Greenway. We collected over a thousand petition signatures and support from local businesses to push Community Board 11 to approve these safety improvements.

We have allied with Eastern Queens Greenway and are actively working with them to create a continuous protected 13 mile walking, running, biking trail starting at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and finishing in Bayside at Fort Totten Park.

Each year the TA East Queens Committee and the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce host the Tour de Flushing, a free 20-mile bike tour of Eastern Queens. Started in 2017, the Tour is our love letter to the amazing parks of Eastern Queens and food of Downtown Flushing. Our ride grows with new participants each year, and we hope you will join us with your friends to see how much potential there is in a fully connected Eastern Queens Greenway.