Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Vision Zero

Takeaways From This Week’s City Council Vision Zero Hearing

By Brad Aaron | May 2, 2014 | 3 Comments

The office of Ydanis Rodriguez says he is aiming to get several traffic safety bills passed in the near future, while others that were taken up by his transportation committee at a Wednesday Vision Zero hearing may be held up. At a press conference announcing the Broadway arterial slow zone Thursday, Rodriguez said of the […]

NYC Will Roll Out Nine Additional Arterial Slow Zones by September

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2014 | 11 Comments

Over the past three weeks, DOT has been rolling out its 25 mph arterial slow zone program to high-crash streets one by one: Atlantic Avenue, the Grand Concourse, McGuinness Boulevard, and this morning, Broadway in Manhattan. Now, the initiative will expand to nine more streets across the city by the end of August, with 12 […]

Broadway Speed Limit to Drop to 25 MPH From Columbus Circle to Inwood

By Brad Aaron | May 1, 2014 | 13 Comments

The speed limit will be lowered to 25 miles per hour on eight miles of upper Broadway this summer, DOT announced today. Motorists have killed 22 pedestrians on Broadway from Columbus Circle to W. 220 Street in Inwood since 2008, according to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, who was flanked by NYPD officials, city and state […]

Traffic Violence Victims’ Families Tell Their Stories at City Hall

By Stephen Miller | Apr 30, 2014 | 11 Comments

Before the big City Council hearing on street safety legislation this afternoon, elected officials joined families of traffic violence victims outside City Hall to push for speed camera and speed limit bills in Albany, along with more traffic enforcement and better street designs from the de Blasio administration. Three weeks ago, 22-year-old Kelly Gordon was struck and killed […]

Looks Like Marty Golden Is Holding Up Speed Cameras, Again

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2014 | 24 Comments

Dana Rubinstein at Capital New York reports that State Senator Marty Golden has again emerged as an obstacle to NYC speed cameras. On Monday the Assembly passed a bill that would allow the city to deploy 120 additional cameras, bringing the total to 140. We reported yesterday that the allocation of speed camera revenue was a […]

Report Traffic Hazards With NYC’s Vision Zero Map

By Brad Aaron | Apr 29, 2014 | 8 Comments

The city has posted an interactive Vision Zero map for New Yorkers to crowdsource incidents of dangerous driving and other street safety conditions that need attention. “Your knowledge will be used to create a traffic safety plan for each borough that will describe how to make each borough’s streets safer for everyone, whether walking, biking […]

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