Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

Rodriguez Bill Would Mandate Daylighting at 25 Intersections Per Year

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2015 | 19 Comments

City Council transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez introduced legislation today intended to improve pedestrian safety along bus routes and at intersections with high crash rates. Intro 912 would require DOT to daylight the five “most dangerous intersections” in each borough annually, as determined by the number of fatalities and injuries. Curb extensions would be installed to […]

Bratton Won’t Stop Talking About Removing Times Square Plazas

By Stephen Miller | Aug 27, 2015 | 38 Comments

It wasn’t just an offhand remark. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has reiterated his desire to eliminate the public plazas at Times Square and go back to the days when people were spilling off the sidewalk into the path of traffic. This time, he’s insisting that taking away space for people won’t just cure Times Square of topless women and costumed […]

No Charges for Driver Who Killed Sheepshead Bay Woman in Crosswalk

By Stephen Miller | Aug 26, 2015 | 18 Comments

NYPD has not filed charges against the driver who killed a Sheepshead Bay woman in the crosswalk just blocks from her home yesterday afternoon. Carol Carboni, 52, was crossing Nostrand Avenue from west to east at 3:35 p.m. yesterday when the driver of a 2013 Infiniti sedan, making a left turn from eastbound Avenue Z to northbound […]

Eyes on the Street: Clinton Street’s New Bikeway

By Stephen Miller | Aug 25, 2015 | 10 Comments

A new two-way bikeway is under construction to provide a connection between the Williamsburg Bridge and the East River Greenway. The route along Clinton Street extends the existing two-way protected bike lane between Delancey and Grand an additional five blocks to South Street, where it connects to the waterfront bike path beneath the FDR Drive. The waterfront greenway, which […]

Atlantic and Washington Gets Fixes, Now What About the Rest of Atlantic?

By Stephen Miller | Aug 24, 2015 | 6 Comments

The multi-leg intersection of Atlantic Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Underhill Avenue has received its second round of street safety improvements in four years. Adding to a 2011 project that expanded pedestrian space, this latest set of changes includes new turn restrictions, crosswalks, and larger median islands [PDF]. Advocates welcomed the changes, but want DOT to think […]

It’s de Blasio and Bratton vs. the World on Times Square Plazas

By Stephen Miller | Aug 20, 2015 | 94 Comments

Let’s start with some basic facts: Most people like Times Square better now that it has more room for people. Gone are the days when the sidewalks were so meager that you had no choice but to walk in traffic. After Broadway went car-free through Times Square in 2009, pedestrian injuries plummeted 40 percent. Retail rents soared. And yet, going against […]

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