This Week: Lots of Livable Streets Action at Community Boards

This week, there are opportunities to support bike corrals, bike lanes, better bus service, and Safe Routes to Schools at community board meetings in Brooklyn and Queens. Plus: Two City Council committees are set to tackle pedestrian safety issues this week.

Here are the highlights. Check the Streetsblog calendar for the full slate of events:

• Tuesday: The City Council sanitation committee will consider a bill to require snow plows to be fitted with lights and audible warnings to prevent pedestrian deaths. It will also consider a bill requiring DSNY to issue an annual report concerning the condition of roadways and pedestrian islands after snow storms. 1 p.m.
• Also Tuesday: Lots of community board action tomorrow night. The Brooklyn CB 1 transportation committee will reconsider three previously-rejected North Brooklyn bike corrals at 6:30 p.m., Brooklyn CB 9 will reconsider a road diet and bike lane for Franklin Avenue at 7 p.m., Riders Alliance will meet with the Brooklyn CB 8 transportation committee to discuss improvements to the B46 bus at 7 p.m., and DOT will present a Safe Routes to School project in Ridgewood to the Queens CB 5 transportation committee at 7:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: The City Council transportation committee will consider two bills: one to increase the number of blind-accessible pedestrian signals and another to give free parking at muni meters in the minutes before paid parking requirements end. 1 p.m.
• Also Wednesday: Join Riders Alliance for cookies and phone-banking to make sure Queens bus riders come out to the upcoming meeting where DOT and MTA are expected to unveil a BRT plan for Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards. 6 p.m.
• Thursday: Weigh in on a project that could bring "shared space" to Downtown Brooklyn. DOT will present conceptual designs for three blocks of Willoughby and Pearl Streets. 6 p.m.