Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Vision Zero

Naomi Doerner on How Street Safety Advocates Can Support Racial Justice

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 22, 2016 | No Comments

When a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, shot and killed Philando Castile earlier this month, the encounter began with a traffic stop. The stop fit a pattern: Castile had been pulled over many times before — 46 times in 13 years — but few of those citations were for dangerous driving. More prevalent were stops for minor issues like […]

Wider Sidewalks Coming to Flushing’s Crowded Main Street

By David Meyer | Jul 19, 2016 | 9 Comments

Main Street in Flushing gets more foot traffic than anywhere else in New York after Times Square, but its sidewalks are too narrow to handle all those people. So later this month, the city will begin expanding the sidewalks on four blocks of Main Street, Council Member Peter Koo, DOT, and the Department of Design and […]

DOT Overrides CB 10, Advances E. Tremont Safety Project After Cyclist Death

By Brad Aaron | Jul 19, 2016 | 8 Comments

DOT will implement a road diet on the stretch of East Tremont Avenue where a motorist killed cyclist Giovanni Nin in June. Last year DOT had dropped the project in response to a hostile reception from Bronx Community Board 10. In early 2015, DOT proposed a number of improvements for East Tremont between Williamsbridge Road and Bruckner Boulevard [PDF]. The plan would reduce […]

TA: City Hall’s Spending Decisions Are Limiting Life-Saving Street Designs

By Brad Aaron | Jul 14, 2016 | 3 Comments

Transportation Alternatives says the de Blasio administration’s failure to fully fund Vision Zero street improvements is limiting the number of split-phase traffic signals DOT can install to prevent collisions at dangerous intersections. In June, 30-year-old cyclist Olga Cook was killed by an allegedly drunk driver who made a right turn across the Hudson River Greenway at Chambers Street, one […]

Advocates Don’t Expect Judge’s Ruling Against Right of Way Law to Hold Up

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 19 Comments

In rejecting the case against a school bus driver who struck and killed an elderly woman in a Queens crosswalk, a criminal court judge deemed the city’s Right of Way Law unconstitutional. The constitutionality of the law had previously been upheld in a different court, however, and street safety advocates don’t expect the new ruling to […]

NYC Traffic Deaths Fell in First Five Months of 2016

By David Meyer | Jun 27, 2016 | 14 Comments

Traffic fatalities in NYC declined 11 percent through the end of May compared to the same period last year, according to NYPD crash data. Up-to-date crash data hasn’t been available through City Hall’s Vision Zero View website since the end of February, with the city saying it will post fresh data after a new reporting system is implemented. NYPD has, […]

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