Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Vision Zero

First Look at Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero Report and Street Safety Agenda

By Ben Fried | Feb 18, 2014 | 5 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio and several of his agency commissioners released the administration’s Vision Zero report at a school on West End Avenue this afternoon. Streetsblog’s Stephen Miller will have more from the mayor’s event later today. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown of the major takeaways from the report [PDF], which outlines both an […]

SOTC: De Blasio Name Checks Vision Zero, But Not the Transit-Equity Link

By Brad Aaron | Feb 10, 2014 | 1 Comment

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a mention to Vision Zero in his first State of the City address. Near the top of his speech, de Blasio said: “Through Vision Zero, we have begun putting into place ambitious new policies to end the tragic and unacceptable rash of pedestrian deaths on our city streets.” That was […]

Will NYC Act to Get Deadly Cab Drivers Off the Streets? [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Feb 10, 2014 | 24 Comments

An analysis by the Post confirms that cab drivers who injure and kill pedestrians in NYC rarely face sanctions from the Taxi and Limousine Commission. The Post examined 16 serious crashes since 2009 and found that only two drivers had their hack licenses revoked. The cabbies who killed Timothy Keith and Cooper Stock and the […]

Two Events This Weekend Build on Momentum for Safer Queens Streets

By Brad Aaron | Feb 7, 2014 | No Comments

There are a couple of events focusing on safer streets in Queens this weekend. Make Queens Safer will host a pedestrian safety town hall Sunday afternoon, with Congressman Joe Crowley and Assembly Member Francisco Moya. Representatives from the 108th and 115th Precincts were invited to the meeting, along with DOT and the Department of Education. […]

Van Bramer: Deadly Northern Boulevard Should Be a Vision Zero Priority

By Brad Aaron | Feb 6, 2014 | No Comments

City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, state electeds, and advocates gathered in Queens this morning to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to make Northern Boulevard a Vision Zero priority by making hazardous intersections safer for pedestrians. Standing next to a recently repaired bus shelter at Northern and 48th Street, which was nearly destroyed by […]

Meet One of the Minds Behind TrafficStat, NYPD’s Street Safety Initiative

By Stephen Miller | Feb 4, 2014 | 2 Comments

A report laying out Mayor Bill de Blasio’s traffic safety strategy, including a section on policing, is due in less than two weeks. In the meantime, precinct commanders have taken wildly different approaches to the issue, some more successfully than others. As a department-wide traffic safety policy comes into focus, TrafficStat, NYPD’s traffic analysis initiative, is […]

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