Vision Zero picks up speed

I can't imagine NYC being willing/able to pay whatever the post election price is for tolling the East River, but am still entertained by watching this movement unfold.

They really just need a red light and speed camera where the Manhattan bridge exits onto Canal. I can't tell you how many cars and trucks blow through that light or gun it like their in a NASCAR race. Also the right turns permitted on red after stopping sign needs to go. Buses just gun through that turn without looking and end up almost hitting cyclists who have the green light leading to the bike path. 

I get that some of the trucks fly through Chinatown like bats out of hell but honestly I have more trouble with cars and buses on Canal then trucks. I also hate to say this but Chinatown has some of the worst jaywalkers in the city. As a group they'll all decide to just get up and jaywalk into oncoming traffic. The only reason more of them don't get hit is they always do this as a large group. It's actually quite funny to see them silently synchronize this expertly executed mass jaywalking. Unlike the jaywalkers in Midtown who have pack leaders and stragglers the ones in Jaytown more or less stay together. 

To talk about traffic fairly everything should be made equal ..like.. coming to a full stop for traffic lights/signs and no jay walking.

Vision Zero Atlantic Avenue walking tour

When: Saturday, November 15, 9:00AM – 11:00AM
Where: Corner of Nostrand Avenue and Atlantic Avenue

Learn the unique problems, and some local activists’ hopeful solutions, to one of Brooklyn’s most dangerous streets. Transportation Alternatives’ Brooklyn Activist Committee is hosting this educational walking tour of Atlantic Avenue. Along the route of this group walk, you’ll learn how many Brooklyn communities rely on Atlantic Avenue, and the story of local activists’ fight to change it. Your presence will be a critical show of support for the campaign to rebuild this central thoroughfare.

Wear walking shoes and comfortable clothes. This two and a half mile walk will keep a leisurely pace. Everyone is welcome, but you need to RSVP to attend.

RSVP here: http://my.transalt.org/site/Calendar?id=101561&view=Detail&autologin=true&pw_id=2961

Hmm, that sounds really interesting!

It is 2 hours long, which might be long enough to witness an accident.

If you don't want trucks on Atlantic Avenue, this is the only alternative.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/nyregion/port-authority-looks-to-19th-century-technology-to-cope-with-a-21st-century-problem.html?_r=0

Is Transportation Alternatives about to pony up $600 million for a freight tunnel?

@homeowner
I suspect you misread the article; $600M would only purchase a deluxe float bridge:

"The cost of the five options for expanding the float bridge now under review range from about $100 million to $600 million, the Port Authority estimates. A four-mile-long, underwater tunnel that could accommodate freight trains, and possibly trucks as well, would cost far more — from $7 billion to as much as $11 billion, none of which has yet been arranged."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/nyregion/port-authority-looks-to-19th-century-technology-to-cope-with-a-21st-century-problem.html?_r=0


I don't think Transportation Alternatives is going to be able to come up with that kind of $ by charging only $40 for membership and throwing the occasional gala.

http://www.transalt.org/support

Very interesting idea and seems like a good one.  Quite simple actually, and effective.  Freight trains in Brooklyn...

Needless to say, you'd still need to have trucks bring the supplies from where ever the train is, to where ever the supplies are actually needed (ie restaurants, supermarkets, Targets, etc)

The participants of the TA Atlantic Avenue Walking tour:

2014 had the lowest numbers of pedestrian deaths on record.

The Daily News and other entities credit Vision Zero.

http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-pedestrian-traffic-deaths-hit-record-nyc-article-1.2060325

Vision Zero advocates-
I am pleased to introduce Den Decker. He seems like a smart man, with good ideas. Involve him in Vision Zero 2.0

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150211/jackson-heights/vision-zero-does-nothing-keep-streets-safe-assemblyman-says

A reactionary whose time in office is limited.

He is a potential supporter.

I can see that he could be if he runs away from this audit and drops his anti-bicycle agenda. But this audit nonsense is political grandstanding to appeal to the pro-death and dismemberment crowd. Yet he is trying to appear to be a friend to pedestrians while questioning life saving safety measures. 

Nothing outs someone who pretends to like you like a big hug.

...that's what the Vision Zero crowd should give him.

The Vision Zero master plan for Brooklyn was published today.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ped-safety-action-plan-brooklyn.pdf

....the city is reshaped.

A reader should go to this and count how many times the phrase "complete streets" is used:

press:  http://www.wsj.com/articles/nycs-vision-zero-gains-traction-1450144040

Well, it's not going to gain a lot of traction until MTA drivers stop running into people. Last night in Sheepshead Bay was #3 in the last few months. Obviously it's not only the regular drivers doing the killing.

I expect those who drive the most, to have the most crashes.

...However, I hope that they are still among the safest in terms of miles driven.

My father owned his own yellow cab for over 20 years. He never ran over anyone. It's usually the drivers that drive the most miles that try to be the safest.

It is going to take people a while to realize that one can be the safest, and have the most accidents.

...the accidents per mile statistics.

Tell that to the mayor. He wants things done "yesterday."

Yet  he arrives late.

Mayor declares Vision Zero is a success:

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/069-16/mayor-bill-de-blasio-2015-was-officially-safest-year-ever-new-york-city-streets

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It's not entirely successful... A good friend was killed last week in Manhattan, hit by an SUV while crossing the street.