In 2022, the city registration drop in traffic fatalities for the first time since 2019, compared to the highest nationwide increase in four decades. Pedestrian fatalities decreased by 6.3% over the previous year and by 35.9% over 2013 figures, the last year before the implementation of the Vision Zero road safety plan.
Ydanis Rodríguez, New York City Commissioner of Transportation
In 2022 we had one of the best years in reducing pedestrians who lost their lives in accidents. However, for Mayor Eric Adams and myself, plus the 5,000 Department of Transportation workers, one death is a lot.
OVER THE PAST YEAR, the Department of Transportation has focused particularly on safety at intersections, where the majority of pedestrian fatalities and injuries occur. Instead of renovating 1,000 intersections, more than 1,400 corner improvements were completed including redesigns, signal upgrades, stop sign installations on all streets, and elevated crosswalks, among others. This year, the effort will continue.
Ydanis Rodríguez New York City Commissioner of Transportation
More investments. We had the money allocated by Mayor Adams when he promised that his words were in line with his allotment of 18% of the budget for our agency.
The Department worked with state legislators to expand the speed camera enforcement program in school zones to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
ydanis rodriguez
New York City Transportation Commissioner]]
Most car owners in New York drive as fast as 25 miles per hour and are respectful of the pedestrian. Do not cross the red light. These dead we have, many times workers or migrants, beautiful and precious people, lose their lives because of a small group of motorists driving drunk, at high speed and who do not respect the laws of New York.
The number of offenses detected by speed cameras such as the one installed at this intersection has been reduced from month to month. In August, there were 755,000, followed by 661,000 in September, 586,000 in October and 565,000 in November.
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