5% Increase in Traffic Deaths This Year de Blasio's Vision Zero Plan Flops No Effect
More Money for Vision Zero
De Blasio looks to funnel $317M into Vision Zero (NYP) *
Spinning Transportation Dept
Safe Streets Advocates 'Horrified' By 10 Traffic Deaths In First 10Days Of 2017 (Gothamist)
de Blasio: Forget Vision Zero . . . Drunk Driving Marginalized MADD Mad
De Blasio found a way to marginalize drunk driving (NYP) First, of course, came Mayor de Blasio’s reply to CNN’s Jake Tapper about adding to the list of 170 offenses that trigger city cooperation with the feds on illegal aliens. “Is grand larceny or drunk driving a very minor offense?” Tapper asked. “Drunk driving that doesn’t lead to any other negative outcome, I could define as that,” de Blasio came back. Oops: “There is nothing minor when drunk driving kills or injures 300,000 people every year,” said Richard Mallow, the state director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “Drunk driving is always a major offense.” Then, later in the week, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Brooklyn) read the mayor a list of other possible additions: “Sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse in the second or third degree, grand larceny, welfare fraud, identity theft.” De Blasio declined to promise anything. They’re not even bending on drunk driving yet: City Hall would only tell WCBS’s Marcia Kramer that it will get “thoughtful attention and conversation.” Beware, Mr. Mayor: You don’t want to make MADD any madder — or Team Trump.
Vision Zero Has Been Success At Raising Money From Tickets Not Lowing Pedestrian Deaths
Faced with escalating deaths of pedestrians and cyclists, de Blasio insisted his administration wasn’t losing sight of the Vision Zero program, saying the city is ramping up efforts to stem traffic fatalities, the Daily News writes.
Vision Zero Speed Bumps
Since de Blasio took office, traffic deaths have dropped, bus service has expanded outside of Manhattan and there are more bicycle lanes. Yet drivers complain about more speeding tickets, residents grumble about increasingly crowded subway trains and many advocates are beginning to question the administration’s commitment to delivering on its Vision Zero initiative to reduce traffic deaths. * Driver crackdown crashes into reality (NYDN Ed)
Cyclists Dying Despite de Blasio's Vision Zero
Despite de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative, so far this year motorists have killed 17 cyclists, putting 2016 on the path to being one of the deadliest for bike riders in recent years, the Daily News reports.
Vision Zero Arrests are Incoherent Mess
A law that de Blasio and the New York City Council championed that allowed for the arrest of drivers who strike pedestrians in crosswalks, causing injury or death, was an incoherent mess, the Daily Newswrites:
Traffic Criminalizing Dead End
TALK ABOUT A BLIND SPOT: Criminalizing drivers a dead-end road to street safety(NYDN Ed) 
Trust de Blasio Closing the Parks to Traffic Will Have No Historic Effect on Traffic
Monday Update Veteran Assemblyman Keith Wright wants NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to put the brakes on a plan to close most of Central Park to weekday car traffic, fearing it will creating traffic problems for his constituents in Harlem .
De Blasio plans to permanently close large portions of Central, Prospect Parks to weekday car traffic: sources (NYDN) * Sources: De Blasio to cut cars in Central and Prospect parks (Capital) * Sources: Mayor to Expand Car Ban in Central, Prospect Parks (NY1)* NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will close large parts of New York City ’s two most celebrated parks to car traffic on weekdays. The closings in Central Park and Prospect Park Prospect Park 's East Side Neighbors Fume Over Exclusion From Car Ban (DNAINFO) NYC Parks Update Majority of NYC parks forced to operate with part-time crews(NYP) More than three-quarters of all parks in New York City
Vision Zero Mixed Results Lots of Tickets
de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan, aimed at reducing pedestrian deaths to zero, has had mixed results in its first year, with traffic deaths down but only by 4 percent in problem corridors
EXCLUSIVE: Daily News investigation finds mixed results in mayor’s Vision Zero plan as city sees six traffic-related deaths in the last 10 days — SEE THE INTERACTIVE (NYDN) A street -by-street analysis of those first 12 “slow zones” reveals successes and challenges.
TWU Protests Vision Zero's Arrest of Its Drivers
TWU Local 100 ad slams Bill de Blasio over Vision Zeroplan that has resulted in arrest of six bus drivers (NYDN) The head of the city’s largest transit union has developed a case of road rage for Mayor de Blasio over a street-safety program that has left several bus drivers in cuffs. An ad paid for by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 that will run in the Daily News on Wednesday features an illustration of the mayor. He’s wearing a sash that reads “Mr. Progressive” and he’s putting handcuffs on a bus driver. The image runs under the words, “Uncuff ’em, Mayor De Blasio!” The ad blasts de Blasio for his Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic deaths for “criminalizing an entire class of hard working, law abiding unionized workers. Six bus drivers have been arrested under the so-called Right of Way law that makes it a misdemeanor for drivers to fail to yield and strike pedestrians or bicyclists crossing with the light, according to the NYPD. There have been 23 arrests made under the law to date. Samuelsen said drivers deal with blind spots and difficult left turns in a crowded city without dedicated traffic signals, all while trying to stick to a rigorous schedule. The City Council is considering a bill to exempt MTA bus drivers from the Right of Way law.* A new ad takes on the mayor over the arrests of several busdrivers due to Vision Zero: (NY1)
3rd Worst State Highest Speeding Helps Push the Middle Class Out
New York is the 3rd worst state for speeding tickets(NYP)
Traffic, Vision Zero and Speed Cameras
Central Park Cuts Speed Limit After Two Bike Deaths
In the wake of two pedestrian deaths caused by collisions with bicycles, Central Park has lowered the speed limit for cars and bicycles to 20 miles an hour from 25, while reconfiguring intersections with heavy foot traffic, the Times reports
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 5% Increase in Traffic Deaths This Year de Blasio's Vision Zero Plan Flops No Effect 
More Money for Vision Zero
De Blasio looks to funnel $317M into Vision Zero (NYP) *
Spinning Transportation Dept
Safe Streets Advocates 'Horrified' By 10 Traffic Deaths In First 10Days Of 2017 (Gothamist)de Blasio: Forget Vision Zero . . . Drunk Driving Marginalized MADD Mad
De Blasio found a way to marginalize drunk driving (NYP) First, of course, came Mayor de Blasio’s reply to CNN’s Jake Tapper about adding to the list of 170 offenses that trigger city cooperation with the feds on illegal aliens. “Is grand larceny or drunk driving a very minor offense?” Tapper asked. “Drunk driving that doesn’t lead to any other negative outcome, I could define as that,” de Blasio came back. Oops: “There is nothing minor when drunk driving kills or injures 300,000 people every year,” said Richard Mallow, the state director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “Drunk driving is always a major offense.” Then, later in the week, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Brooklyn) read the mayor a list of other possible additions: “Sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse in the second or third degree, grand larceny, welfare fraud, identity theft.” De Blasio declined to promise anything. They’re not even bending on drunk driving yet: City Hall would only tell WCBS’s Marcia Kramer that it will get “thoughtful attention and conversation.” Beware, Mr. Mayor: You don’t want to make MADD any madder — or Team Trump.
Vision Zero Has Been Success At Raising Money From Tickets Not Lowing Pedestrian Deaths
Faced with escalating deaths of pedestrians and cyclists, de Blasio insisted his administration wasn’t losing sight of the Vision Zero program, saying the city is ramping up efforts to stem traffic fatalities, the Daily News writes.
Vision Zero Speed Bumps
Since de Blasio took office, traffic deaths have dropped, bus service has expanded outside of
Cyclists Dying Despite de Blasio's Vision Zero
Despite de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative, so far this year motorists have killed 17 cyclists, putting 2016 on the path to being one of the deadliest for bike riders in recent years, the Daily News reports.
Vision Zero Arrests are Incoherent Mess
A law that de Blasio and the New York City Council championed that allowed for the arrest of drivers who strike pedestrians in crosswalks, causing injury or death, was an incoherent mess, the Daily Newswrites:
Traffic Criminalizing Dead End
TALK ABOUT A BLIND SPOT: Criminalizing drivers a dead-end road to street safety(NYDN Ed)
Trust de Blasio Closing the Parks to Traffic Will Have No Historic Effect on Traffic
Monday Update Veteran Assemblyman Keith Wright wants NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to put the brakes on a plan to close most of Central Park to weekday car traffic, fearing it will creating traffic problems for his constituents in
De Blasio plans to permanently close large portions of Central, Prospect Parks to weekday car traffic: sources (NYDN) * Sources: De Blasio to cut cars in Central and Prospect parks (Capital) * Sources: Mayor to Expand Car Ban in Central, Prospect Parks (NY1)* NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will close large parts of
Vision Zero Mixed Results Lots of Tickets 
de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan, aimed at reducing pedestrian deaths to zero, has had mixed results in its first year, with traffic deaths down but only by 4 percent in problem corridors
EXCLUSIVE: Daily News investigation finds mixed results in mayor’s Vision Zero plan as city sees six traffic-related deaths in the last 10 days — SEE THE INTERACTIVE (NYDN)
TWU Protests Vision Zero's Arrest of Its Drivers
TWU Local 100 ad slams Bill de Blasio over Vision Zeroplan that has resulted in arrest of six bus drivers (NYDN) The head of the city’s largest transit union has developed a case of road rage for Mayor de Blasio over a street-safety program that has left several bus drivers in cuffs. An ad paid for by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 that will run in the Daily News on Wednesday features an illustration of the mayor. He’s wearing a sash that reads “Mr. Progressive” and he’s putting handcuffs on a bus driver. The image runs under the words, “Uncuff ’em, Mayor De Blasio!” The ad blasts de Blasio for his Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic deaths for “criminalizing an entire class of hard working, law abiding unionized workers. Six bus drivers have been arrested under the so-called Right of Way law that makes it a misdemeanor for drivers to fail to yield and strike pedestrians or bicyclists crossing with the light, according to the NYPD. There have been 23 arrests made under the law to date. Samuelsen said drivers deal with blind spots and difficult left turns in a crowded city without dedicated traffic signals, all while trying to stick to a rigorous schedule. The City Council is considering a bill to exempt MTA bus drivers from the Right of Way law.* A new ad takes on the mayor over the arrests of several busdrivers due to Vision Zero: (NY1)
3rd Worst State Highest Speeding Helps Push the Middle Class Out
New York is the 3rd worst state for speeding tickets(NYP)
Central Park Cuts Speed Limit After Two Bike Deaths
In the wake of two pedestrian deaths caused by collisions with bicycles, Central Park has lowered the speed limit for cars and bicycles to 20 miles an hour from 25, while reconfiguring intersections with heavy foot traffic, the Times reports
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A Cash Cow Speed Trap Camera
Keeping the Middle Class In NYC?
Speed camera generates $77,550 in just one day(NYP) A speed camera in Brooklyn tallied a bank-busting 1,551 tickets in a single day this summer, according to the Department of Transportation. At $50 a pop, the July 7 ticket blitz generated $77,550 for city coffers.The area’s city councilman, Chaim Deutsch, praised it for making roadways safer. “If anyone is speeding . . . they deserve a summons,” he told the blog Sheepshead Bites. But Councilman Mark Treyger has blasted the camera’s location as a speed trap.
Speed camera generates $77,550 in just one day(NYP) A speed camera in Brooklyn tallied a bank-busting 1,551 tickets in a single day this summer, according to the Department of Transportation. At $50 a pop, the July 7 ticket blitz generated $77,550 for city coffers.The area’s city councilman, Chaim Deutsch, praised it for making roadways safer. “If anyone is speeding . . . they deserve a summons,” he told the blog Sheepshead Bites. But Councilman Mark Treyger has blasted the camera’s location as a speed trap.
SHOCKING Campaign Promises of Less Tickets Untrue
NYC has given out a lot of tickets this year(NYP) City enforcement agents set a ticket-blitz record this year by handing out 57,166 tickets in April, the most of any month in three years — despite Mayor de Blasio’s pledge to cut back on the summons avalanche. In the previous five months of 2013, agents gave out just 197,278 tickets, or 40,363 fewer. “The thing that we’re focused on immediately is ending the arbitrary ticket blitzes that were revenue-based,” the mayor said in February, two months after taking office. He even cut projected fines revenue from $859 million to $789 million. In March, the City Council with the mayor’s support made changes in regulations that officials estimated would reduce fine revenues by 25 percent. But the number of restaurant summonses given out in May was 2,239, down only slightly from 2,336 in May 2013. The Sanitation Department, which accounts for more than 60 percent of all ECB summonses, wrote 40,517 tickets in April, also a three-year record. The FDNY also had a big month this March, the second-highest month on recent record blazing ahead with 5,411 violations.The ECB collected more than $67 million between January and June, compared to about $66 million in the same time period last year, officials said
Parking After the Street Sweepers Council Bill Again . . . Pandering?
de Blasio Like Bloomberg Says Proposal Will Lead to Dirtier Streets
Street sweeping 2.0(NYDN Ed)
A bad Council idea could lead to a better plan for alternate-side parking. Ultimately, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez’s bill reflects both the Council’s overblown belief that every difficulty can be outlawed and an utter lack of creative thinking during an era of high-tech innovation. City buses are equipped with GPS devices. You can use a smartphone to see exactly where they are. Ditto snow plows and a growing number of cabs and livery cars. If street sweepers were similarly equipped, a sweeper driver could post that a block was open for parking as soon as cleaning was finished. Drivers and enforcement agents alike could then keep track electronically.
New York Council Bill Aims to Ease a Parking Burden(NYP)
A bad Council idea could lead to a better plan for alternate-side parking. Ultimately, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez’s bill reflects both the Council’s overblown belief that every difficulty can be outlawed and an utter lack of creative thinking during an era of high-tech innovation. City buses are equipped with GPS devices. You can use a smartphone to see exactly where they are. Ditto snow plows and a growing number of cabs and livery cars. If street sweepers were similarly equipped, a sweeper driver could post that a block was open for parking as soon as cleaning was finished. Drivers and enforcement agents alike could then keep track electronically.
New York Council Bill Aims to Ease a Parking Burden(NYP)
Legislation
that will have a hearing before the City Council would allow drivers to
return to parking spaces once street sweepers pass on
alternate-side-parking days.* .@NYCSanitation says changing the alternate-side parkingrules would be unworkable.(WNYC)*
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Sanitation Department warned
against a proposal to loosen alternate-side parking rules, saying it
will lead to dirtier streets, the Daily News reports: * PUMP YOUR BRAKES: Mayor de Blasio objects to easing of rules on alternate-side parking during street sweep days(NYDN) “The department objects to the bill, officials said, because it would
impede their ability to go back and double-clean streets, a common
practice especially during the fall. ‘If we didn’t need to go back
around the block, it wouldn’t be an issue. But very frequently we’ve had
to go back,’ said Paul Visconti, the department's assistant chief of
cleaning operations. It is a ‘misconception,’ Visconti said, that anyone
sitting in a parked car is immediately issued a summons when street
cleaners approach.”de Blasio's Trash 180 * De Blasio voiced support for
reforming alternate side parking rules a day after his Sanitation
Department testified that such changes could leave many streets jammed
with trash, the Observer reports:
Will Building A Speed Trap Make NY Safer . . . What About Heavy Jail for Illegal and Bad Drivers?
Vision Zero Zone Accident
Man Struck in Brooklyn Vision Zero Zone in Critical Condition
NYC traffic deaths 701 → 249 , '90 to '11.
De Blasio is looking to Sweden for tips on pedestrian safety. The country has had zero traffic deaths – in accordance with national law.
A Safety Plan With Swedish Logic and City Smarts(NYT)
New York can learn a lot from Sweden, which has tamped down on traffic
fatalities by focusing on design and technological solutions rather than
by placing the onus on the driver.
This City is just all too clever...Let's put speed cameras everywhere, then lower the speed limit to a ridiculous... http://fb.me/117i83Fyn
* Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, serves as a model for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” policy goal, which would reduce traffic fatalities to zero, the Times writes: http://goo.gl/JpQCvF
Speed Cameras . . .
More Traffic Cameras For Schools Crossings
* New York City’s Open Data website now features NYPD motor vehicle collision data in machine-readable format from as recently as the day prior: http://goo.gl/TISKKw
Drivers hit with 88% more traffic tickets in Crown Hts. and Prospect Hts. this year, data shows: http://dnain.fo/PtfHhv
Vision Zero Zone Accident
Man Struck in Brooklyn Vision Zero Zone in Critical Condition
Traffic Control Spin
Charges dropped against Manhattan man, 84, given a jaywalking ticket by cops: lawyer (NYDN)Kang
Chun Wong was stopped by police on the Upper West Side in January for
allegedly jaywalking. During the encounter, he was knocked to the
ground, struck his head and blacked out.*An Atlantic Avenue slowdown, absent speed cameras(Capital)Today the de Blasio administration put Atlantic Avenue drivers on notice.* Brooklyn’s Atlantic Ave first to see speed limit drop(NYP) * Atlantic Avenue Speed Limit Lowered to 25 Miles an Hour(WSJ) * Atlantic Avenue first city road to go to 25 mph(NYP)
* Legislation that would approve hundreds of speed cameras in school zones, which has the support of Cuomo and other top lawmakers, is expected to be one of the first items lawmakers take on when they return to the Capitol, the Associated Press reports: http://goo.gl/tzBOKV
City Unveils Dozens Of New Slow Zones To Cut Down On Traffic Fatalities http://dlvr.it/5Xy8Th
Interactive: The impact of motorcycle helmets on deaths http://nyti.ms/1dP0BOW
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