Congress has not only codified roundabouts into federal law for the first time, and put them at the top of the list of examples of highway safety improvement projects. They've also defined them as providing “for the safety of all road users.”
The mayor isn't even halfway towards reaching his promise to "make design improvements" at 1,000 intersections this year — and the promised redesigns have overwhelmingly been merely changing the timing of traffic lights.
A 9-year-old child was run down and killed on a Sheepshead Bay sidewalk by a driver turning into a driveway, police said on Saturday, adding that the driver was not charged.