page_title: Time's Up!
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Time's Up! / History / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Early image from Time's Up's founding of the pedi-cab industry in New York City.
context_page_description: Time's Up! Environmental Organization was founded in 1987 to help educate New Yorkers about environmental awareness. One of its main focuses is to promote non-polluting transportation, by advocating biking. Among other activities, Time's Up! helped found New York City's Pedicab industry, and takes an active role in maintaining community gardens. Recent initiatives include supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
  Time's Up! is run completely by volunteers, currently with over 150. Time's Up! also has a video documentary team. Dr. Michael Nash, the director of Tamiment Library, wrote: “Time's Up has been at the center of a new generation of activist politics in New York."
context_section_description: Time's Up! Environmental Group was founded in New York City in 1987. Since 1991, Time's Up! has been campaigning to promote hybrid vehicles, pedal assist technologies, and advocacy of biking. Time's Up! holds a monthly  moonlight ride in Central Park to raise environmental awareness. These group bike rides create a safe place for people to cycle together because it is an auto-free ride.  This helps establish everyday commuters and has helped continuously increase cycling every year.
  In 1992, Time's Up! assisted with Green Apple Map, which pinpointed 145 sites in New York City that have made an environmental impact and have sparked a local-global movement. Time's Up! launched a campaign to reclaim public space from automobiles, including a traffic calming ride in Central Park, advocating auto-free streets, and encouraging sustainable infrastructure.
  In 1994, Time's Up! volunteers, working with the Hub Station, founded the Pedicab industry in New York City. Pedicabs operate similar to a taxi in that they pick up passengers, though without the pollution associated with motorized taxis. In 1994, mostly in pieces, 12 pedicabs were brought into NYC with the idea of test marketing them. George Bliss, from the Hub Station, was one of the early pioneers of this project, working with Time's Up! volunteers and a donated space by Light Wheels on Crosby Street, NYC. At the Crosby Street space, Time's Up! began to put together the pedicabs, and started introducing them to the streets. Pedicabs have struggled building up their presence in New York, especially when the city installed roadblocks and tried to put a cap on them.
   However, thanks to the support of many Time's Up! volunteers, pedicabs prevailed, and they are all over New York, replacing toxic carbon combustion with clean human powered energy.
  In 1996, Time's Up! worked with the Wetlands Activism Collective on their awareness campaign. Time's Up! started the Street Memorial Project beginning in 1996. This project commemorated cyclists and pedestrians killed by motorists while raising awareness of unsafe local infrastructure. 
  In 1999, Time's Up! teamed up with a coalition to cultivate some community gardens and protect endangered ones. This project also created dozens of new gardens with Time's Up! volunteers and community support. Time's Up! is a part of many other community garden cleanups as well.
caption: Early image from Time's Up's founding of the Pedi Cab industry in New York City.
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