Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Vision Zero

The Missing Piece in DOT’s Left-Turn Safety Plan: Real Split-Phase Signals

By Brad Aaron | | 13 Comments
Split-phase traffic signals protect pedestrians and cyclists by separating them from turning drivers — people walking and biking across the street get their own signal phase, and drivers turning into the crosswalk get another. Research indicates that split-phase signals are highly effective at preventing traffic injuries and deaths. But when DOT revealed its strategy to reduce crashes caused by left-turning […]

DOT Lays Out a Strategy to Make Left Turns Less Dangerous

By David Meyer | | 28 Comments
DOT will be ramping up the use of intersection treatments to protect pedestrians and cyclists from left-turning drivers, the agency announced today. The initiative is paired with a DOT study, “Don’t Cut Corners” [PDF], that illustrates the disproportionate danger of left turns. Mayor de Blasio had announced in January that reducing the risk of left turns […]

TA: Unfocused, Ineffective NYPD Enforcement Isn’t Helping With Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | | 29 Comments
Since the launch of Vision Zero more than two years ago, NYPD has yet to develop a comprehensive strategy to target dangerous driver behaviors that are known to cause most injuries and deaths. To the contrary, a new Transportation Alternatives report finds that NYPD enforcement often targets the people most vulnerable to traffic violence, while motorist violations like […]

Behold the Transport for London Traffic Collision Map

By Brad Aaron | | 1 Comment
As City Hall staffers work on improvements to Vision Zero View, hopefully they’re taking cues from Transport for London’s collision map. Launched last September, the TfL map “shows traffic collisions that resulted in personal injury and were reported to the police” from 2005 through 2015. Some features of the TfL map that Vision Zero View doesn’t currently have: Crashes are […]

NYPD “Bicycle Safe Passage” Stings Aren’t Creating Safe Passage for Cyclists

By David Meyer | | 10 Comments
Rather than ticket cars blocking Jay St #bikenyc lane, I saw @OpSafeCycle @NYPD84Pct ticketing bikes near Mnhtn Bridge. #WhenIsBrattonDone? — dave ‘paco’ abraham (@subtle116) July 26, 2016 Earlier this year, when City Hall announced NYPD’s “Bicycle Safe Passage” enforcement initiative to ticket drivers for blocking bike lanes and failing to yield to cyclists, it sounded like a […]

Crash Data Show NYC Is Losing Ground on Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | | 6 Comments
After a four-month hiatus, City Hall is again updating its Vision Zero View map with new crash data, and through the first six months of 2016, traffic deaths rose slightly compared the same period last year. Through the end of June, 111 people lost their lives to traffic violence, up from 107 in the first half of 2015. Drivers […]
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