The Adams administration has redesigned a small fraction of streets near schools, leaving the city's 1.75 million children exposed to high rates of car crashes and injuries on school streets as public schools reopen today.
The mother of 28-year-old Carling Mott, who was killed last month by a truck driver while biking on the Upper East Side, says streets near schools should be closed to traffic, which is somehow controversial in New York.
Boosters of the program say its unraveling is predictable, given the city provides few resources to participants and requires them to run their school streets themselves.