Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

Report: All New NYC Garbage Trucks Should Have Life-Saving Side Guards

By Stephen Miller | Feb 26, 2015 | 2 Comments

Earlier this month, the city announced a pilot program to add side guards, which prevent people from being dragged under the rear wheels of large vehicles, to 240 trucks in the city fleet. It’s a start, but there are thousands more trucks on NYC streets that need this life-saving equipment. A new report from the U.S. […]

De Blasio Defends Right-of-Way Law to Dimwits in Albany [Updated]

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2015 | 33 Comments

Update [February 26]: The quote from the mayor has been updated to include his full response. At a hearing in Albany this morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the new city law that enables police to file misdemeanor charges against drivers who injure or kill people with the right of way. He also shed some light on […]

Another Pedestrian Killed on Nightmarish Bronx Broadway Stretch

By Brad Aaron | Feb 24, 2015 | 24 Comments

A hit-and-run driver killed a pedestrian last night on a stretch of Broadway in the Bronx with a history of fatalities, and where motorists injured one person walking per week last year. Daniel Cabrera was attempting to cross Broadway at W. 225th Street in Marble Hill at around 7 p.m. yesterday when he was struck by […]

Pedestrian Deaths Have Fallen in Every Borough Except Staten Island

By Stephen Miller | Feb 20, 2015 | 23 Comments

DOT released the final installment of its pedestrian safety plans yesterday with a report for Staten Island [PDF], where the nature of pedestrian crashes is different than in the other boroughs. Over the past three decades, the city as a whole grew approximately 19 percent while the number of pedestrian fatalities was cut in half. On Staten Island, […]

West Harlem CB Members to DOT: Let Drivers Use Neighborhood as Shortcut

By Stephen Miller | Feb 20, 2015 | 44 Comments

Riverside Drive in West Harlem is shaping up to be another test case for DOT’s commitment to safety improvements, and whether the agency will allow ignorance of basic street design principles and fear of change guide its decisions. DOT didn’t put bike lanes in its road diet plan for Riverside Drive. Now, key members of […]

If You Walk in Brooklyn, Chances Are You’ll Cross a Street That Needs Fixing

By Brad Aaron | Feb 19, 2015 | 8 Comments

DOT released its Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan for Brooklyn today. As with analyses issued earlier this week of Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx, the Brooklyn report [PDF] singles out streets, intersections, and swaths of neighborhoods where motorists make it especially dangerous to walk. Judging by the “priority map,” most major streets in Brooklyn are in need […]

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