Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

Mayoral Candidates Take a Stand on NYPD’s Treatment of… Transit Crime

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 4 Comments

Quick, what aspect of police work and law enforcement were mayoral contenders addressing when they said the following at Friday’s candidate forum? Bill de Blasio: “It’s hard to report crimes and get the kind of response that you deserve…The police need more training to treat these crimes with urgency…Police need better training and we need […]

Envisioning a Safer Fourth Avenue in Park Slope

By Stephen Miller | Feb 13, 2013 | 1 Comment

Last night, DOT staff led a public workshop sponsored by Borough President Marty Markowitz’s Fourth Avenue Task Force on how to improve 28 blocks of Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, between 15th Street and Pacific Street. DOT expects to have a draft plan for the avenue, one of the borough’s most dangerous streets, within two months. This project follows DOT’s […]

CB 4 Still Pushing DOT for Time to Cross Deadly Hell’s Kitchen Intersections

By Brad Aaron | Feb 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

Manhattan Community Board 4 has renewed its call for safety improvements at the Hell’s Kitchen crossing where an elderly woman was killed by a driver last week. The request comes five years after a resolution that asked for exclusive crossing time for pedestrians at the deadly intersection, and is the latest episode in a years-long, […]

Scared by Dangerous Traffic? Take a Xanax

By Stephen Miller | Feb 6, 2013 | 11 Comments

Once in a while, a story comes along that perfectly encapsulates how dangerous traffic forces people to re-orient their lives. This example, relayed to us by a reader, comes from a recent lecture at the psychiatry department of a major Manhattan hospital about anxiety disorders in the elderly. The lecturer brought up the case of an […]

A Year Later, How’s James Vacca Doing on His Pledge to Protect Pedestrians?

By Ben Fried | Jan 31, 2013 | 11 Comments

Today NYC DOT announced its progress on a series of measures designed to promote safer riding habits among commercial cyclists. The agency has held 17 multi-lingual forums around the city to educate businesses and commercial cyclists about how to ride safely, and distributed kits with reflective vests, bells, and lights to 1,500 commercial cyclists through […]

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Poll: The Hunt for the Worst Intersection in America Continues

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 31, 2013 | No Comments

Earlier this week we looked at the intersection of Route 355 and Shady Grove Road near Rockville, Maryland, flagged by Ben Ross at Greater Greater Washington for being especially hostile to pedestrians, even though it’s the site of a bus stop. We asked if it might be the worst intersection in the country and put out a call for […]

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