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Anti-Vision Zero Town Hall Postponed After Pols Bail Following Little Boy’s...
Opponents of Vision Zero decided against criticizing the city’s signature road safety initiative on Thursday night — and all it took was the killing of a little boy. Hours after 7-year-old Kamei...
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Queens Blvd. Gets Beaucoup Biden Bucks
One of the city’s biggest projects is now also one of the Biden Administration’s biggest. The redesign of Queens Boulevard — an epic, decade-long struggle to add a bike lane to a roadway once known as...
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Safety Last: Feds Rely Too Much on States’ Vision to Get to ‘Zero’
A version of this article originally appeared on Vision Zero Network. Read the original here. As local, regional and tribal communities in the U.S. commit to Vision Zero in record numbers, the national...
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… And the Biggest Failures and Disappointments of 2023
The second year of the Adams administration had a lot of new lows for the street safety movement, as the mayor dispelled notions that he would follow legal requirements to build out miles of bike and...
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NYPD Hands Out ‘Vision Zero’ Awards After 257 People Were Killed and 40,000...
Police brass on Friday announced that 70 of its 77 precincts — or 91 percent — failed to achieve Vision Zero in 2023, capping a year in which more than 39,000 were injured and 257 people were killed...
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Vision Zero: Ten Years of Mixed, Inequitable Results, Report Shows
As Vision Zero celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, one word stands out about all when analyzing its success: Meh. The city has spent hundreds of million dollars on street improvements that...
View ArticleWHAT NEXT?: Four Things Mayor Adams Must Do to Save Vision Zero
New York City’s Vision Zero program is, by some measures, a major success: Traffic fatalities dropped since Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his plan to reshape city transportation policy around reducing...
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Vision Zero at 10: Bill de Blasio Looks Back in an Exclusive Interview
No single New Yorker is as connected to Vision Zero as Bill de Blasio, the mayor who launched the initiative in 2014. There was definitely some vision in the policy, but not the “zero” part, with...
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SAFETY LAST: DOT Added No New Protected Bike Lanes in Four ‘Priority Districts’
Four Brooklyn neighborhoods that were named Vision Zero “Bike Priority Areas” in 2017 still haven’t gotten any new bike routes — part of a group of 10 community boards that the city vowed to improve,...
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SEE IT: Streetopia’s Vision for West 72nd Street Puts People First
Pedestrians, bus riders, and micro-mobility users make up three-quarters of people on bustling W. 72nd Street — but receive just 1.8 percent of the roadway design. A new proposal from Streetopia UWS...
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