Progress has not come without some retreat. According to Vision Zero’s objective, it is difficult to meet anyone, including Ms. Trottenberg, who believes that by the target year of 2024, the city will achieve zero deaths. Last year, street casualties increased, and they may be on the way to increase again this year, resulting in an epidemic in Ms. Trottenberg’s use of motorcycles and reckless driving, as people avoid the subway.
“It appears to have become a national phenomenon,” he said. “It’s been a year of spirit and some chaos, and unfortunately it’s played out in a variety of areas, including our roads.”
Still, the building blocks are felt in place.
In 2013, New York City won the right to install speed cameras near 20 schools. Ms. With the help of Trottenberg, the city received state authority to install thousands of speed cameras in the 7 won0 zones, which the city said would cover every primary, middle and high school in the city. When traffic safety cameras were banned in Texas last year, New York City now has the largest municipal speed camera program in the country, Ms Trottenberg says.
In an effort to improve pedestrian safety, New York City lowered its default speed limit to 25 miles per hour.
Ms. Trottenberg worked with the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to implement the city’s first busway along 14th Street in Manhattan. More busway work is underway.
And she extended the city’s network of safe bike lanes from 36 miles to 120 miles, even though advocates say the quality of the bike lanes – and the lack of city enforcement in them.
“We have cars and trucks parked in the bike lanes of all time in the city, the best protected,” said John CRuckett, New York’s director of communications and former policy director of the city’s Department of Transportation. “The defenses they are putting in are weaker than before. Even with bus lanes. ”
