Margara crosses Third Avenue at Sunset Park. She asks her daughter to always turn to both sides and take precaution in this vehicular artery where there have been several fatal accidents: “It is very dangerous, especially here on Third Avenue. That he is always looking both ways and that when he is on the sidewalk, be a little more pa ‘inside because there may be an accident “.
And this avenue is one of the dangerous spots in Brooklyn, which according to a report by the organization, Transportation Alternatives, has seen the second most dangerous start of the year in recent years. There were 24 deaths from January to April in the county, while 70 deaths on the streets throughout the city.
Erwin Figueroa, Director of Organization at Transportation Alternatives, comments: “It means that these first four months of the year are the ones with the highest number of deaths since 2014.”
And the organization says that this is the third consecutive year with an increase in fatalities. In the government of Mayor de Blasio there are already more than 1,000 dead in the streets.
This has been experienced closely by neighbors in Brooklyn: “This morning I was crossing and he almost gave me a car.” Someone else adds: “Cars are fast, cars go fast. Sometimes they go over the top, there are times when they go over the top without stopping.”
That is why activists call for the reduction of vehicular traffic: “We reclaim 25% of the space that has been allocated to cars. We will give it back to people, in the sense that bike lanes can be added, bus lanes can be added” .
The municipal government said, through a statement, that they are concerned about the numbers but that they ask the state legislature to reduce speed limits and give control of speed cameras to the city.
Meanwhile, some neighbors also ask for the redesign of avenues, such as the one on Third Avenue.
Because different cyclists pass along this avenue alongside cargo trucks and high-speed cars, which has caused accidents in recent years,
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