Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about pedestrian deaths

This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar

By Kea Wilson | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments

Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.

OPINION: The Manhattan DA Must Put Muscle Into Traffic Safety

By Diana Florence | Jan 4, 2021 | No Comments

The office must establish a 'Vehicular Crimes Task Force' to investigate every death or serious injury, argues candidate Diana Florence, a former ADA.

A ghost bike for a cyclist killed last year. File Photo

... While DA Hopeful Quart Seeks Justice for Road Violence Victims

By Dan Quart | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments

That means using all available laws to prosecute drivers for dangerous driving behaviors, argues candidate Dan Quart.

The scene of a fatal bike crash. File photo: Dave Colon

OPINION: Examine the Medical Competency of Crash-Involved Drivers

By Rosamond Gianutsos | Nov 27, 2020 | No Comments

Those who kill or maim rarely face such scrutiny before being allowed to return to the roads. Collision investigations ought to build in that capability.

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How Far Behind is the U.S. in Street Safety? We Can Show You in Three Charts

By Kea Wilson | Oct 10, 2020 | No Comments

We knew it was bad, but not THIS bad.

How Queens Boulevard looks now versus how it could look.

OPINION: Finish the Queens Boulevard Bike Lane Now

By Eliseo Labayen | Sep 11, 2020 | No Comments

The poor leadership of CM Koslowitz is holding up street safety, a Council hopeful says.

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