RIRA Island Services Committee Lists Roosevelt Island Quality of Life Priorities For 2009

Roosevelt Island Red Bus Image from RIOC

What are the most important issues of concern regarding the quality of life and services available on Roosevelt Island? The Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Island Services Committee (ISC) met during the first week of January and formulated the following list of priorities that they will concentrate upon to improve life here on Roosevelt Island. From RIRA's ISC:

Issues:

Committee reviewed and discussed a variety of identified Roosevelt Island services issues. We decided to work on the following for the next 4 – 6 months:

- Red bus morning rush hour schedule – need to optimize to improve convenience.

- Athletic Fields – regulations, permits and schedule of users.

- Disabled accessibility to F train at Roosevelt island station – resolve.

- Credit card theft at Octagon and elsewhere – publicize and interact with Postal Officials.

- Contingency plan when subway is out-of-service to bring people back to Roosevelt Island – Get RIOC to develop.

- Agreement with MTA that there will be no construction related disruptions of F train service while tram is shut-down for reconstruction – RIOC should obtain.

RIOC's Operations and Governance/Operations Committee will be meeting this afternoon at 4 PM for the first time in 11 months and a web cast of the meeting will be available soon thereafter. A member of RIRA's ISC will be in attendance as well.