Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Vision Zero

Precinct Where Drivers Killed Seniors in Crosswalks Ramps Up Bike Tickets

By Stephen Miller | Nov 21, 2014 | 129 Comments

If you’re an NYPD precinct commander interested in issuing lots of tickets to cyclists in a short period of time, the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge bike path is a tempting place to send your officers. While the intersection itself has fewer crashes than other parts of the neighborhood, the regular stream of cyclists funneling […]

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What Would a National Vision Zero Movement Look Like?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 21, 2014 | No Comments

Earlier this week, New York-based Transportation Alternatives released a statement of 10 principles that emerged from the Vision Zero symposium the group sponsored last Friday. It was the first-ever national gathering of thought leaders and advocates committed to spreading Vision Zero’s ethic of eliminating all traffic deaths through better design, enforcement, and education. I caught […]

Highlights From Today’s Vision Zero Symposium Panels

By Stephen Miller | Nov 14, 2014 | 53 Comments

Street safety professionals, elected officials, and advocates from cities around the world gathered in New York today for the Vision Zero for Cities Symposium, a conference organized by Transportation Alternatives to examine New York’s street safety approach and share best practices for eliminating traffic fatalities. The morning panels featured Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, TLC Commissioner […]

DOT Unveils Interactive Vision Zero Map, But NYPD Data Still Incomplete

By Brad Aaron | Nov 14, 2014 | 2 Comments

As the Transportation Alternatives Vision Zero for Cities Symposium got underway in Downtown Brooklyn this morning, DOT released an interactive map of traffic crashes, street safety projects and more. One piece that’s still missing, though: NYPD enforcement data. “Vision Zero View” maps injury and fatal crashes based on the latest available data, updated monthly, and […]

Treyger Defends Legislating by Anecdote at Bike-Texting Press Conference

By Stephen Miller | Nov 13, 2014 | 66 Comments

Think there’s already too much media attention devoted to Council Member Mark Treyger’s bill to ban texting while bicycling? He’s just getting started. Joined by other council members and representatives of Bike New York, Treyger held a press conference on the steps of City Hall this morning to extoll the legislation’s importance, framing it as a component […]

Vision Zero Year One: An Early Assessment

By Jon Orcutt | Nov 12, 2014 | 5 Comments

New York’s transportation reform and traffic safety movement notched huge wins when mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio adopted Vision Zero as part of his platform in 2013, and again this year when the new mayor put the policy into action within days of taking office. Vision Zero created a policy rubric for the de Blasio […]

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