Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

People Flock to the Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza for a Day

By David Meyer | May 2, 2016 | 1 Comment

On Saturday, neighborhood residents got an eight-hour taste of the one-block plaza DOT has proposed near the Bushwick-Ridgewood border. Going by the turnout, a permanent plaza would be a hugely popular public space for the neighborhood. The block of Wyckoff Avenue between Myrtle Avenue and Gates Avenue was car-free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Foot traffic started slow, but by the […]

Seaman Ave. Has a Bike Lane and Sharrows, But It’s Still a Speedway

By Brad Aaron | Apr 22, 2016 | 17 Comments

The thermoplast is down on the new northbound Seaman Avenue bike lane — but it’s really a bike lane and sharrows. Unless DOT makes a bolder move and puts a protected bike lane next to Inwood Hill Park, not much is going to change on this important Upper Manhattan bike route I’ve written about this project, which […]

After Fatal Hit-and-Run, Queens CB 1 Calls on DOT to Redesign 21st Street

By David Meyer | Apr 20, 2016 | 11 Comments

Queens Community Board 1 endorsed a resolution late last night asking DOT for a “comprehensive redesign of the entire length of 21st Street along Complete Street principles.” The vote comes after a hit-and-run driver killed 45-year-old Sean Crume walking across 21st Street at 30th Road, where there is no signalized crossing, earlier this month. It was the fourth fatality on […]

TSTC: Cuomo and State DOT Need to Get Serious About Pedestrian Safety

By David Meyer | Apr 6, 2016 | 4 Comments

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is calling on Governor Cuomo and New York State DOT to increase funding for much-needed safety improvements on the state’s most dangerous streets. Tri-State’s 2016 “Most Dangerous Roads for Walking” report, released this morning, summarizes the state of pedestrian safety in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and identifies the streets where the most pedestrians were killed from 2012 to 2014. […]

NYPD and DOT Back Bill to Expand Right of Way for Pedestrians

By David Meyer | Apr 4, 2016 | 9 Comments

NYPD and DOT both support a bill to give pedestrians more legal protection under the city’s Right of Way Law. The Right of Way Law took effect in August 2014 and made it a misdemeanor to hit a pedestrian or cyclist who has the right of way. But district attorneys and the police department often decline to […]

Inside the Latest “Distracted Pedestrians” Con

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 31, 2016 | 40 Comments

Hospital records from 2014 showed that distracted walking accounted for 78% of pedestrian injuries throughout the United States. — Daily News, Sunday, March 27, 2016 A report released in 2015 by the Governors Highway Safety Association found an increase in pedestrian fatalities, and cited texting while walking as partly to blame. Nearly two million pedestrian injuries […]

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