Mayor Bill de Blasio is touting the success of his Vision Zero program to reduce the number of pedestrian and traffic fatalities in New York City.
De Blasio said on Tuesday that from January 1 to May 25 in 2013, there were 65 pedestrian fatalities.
He said that last year, after he took office and some Vision Zero safety measures were put in place, that number fell to 47 over the same period. This year, it’s 44.
The mayor said overall traffic fatalities have also fallen from 95 at this point in 2013 to 91 last year and 81 this year.
But he acknowledged that the “work of Vision Zero never ends” and that further safety improvements and tougher enforcement were needed.
(AP)
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Of course the idiots Vision Zero plan is cutting down accidents. The roads are now being traveled at speeds of shopping carts going down the isles in shoprite! Not much happens when 2 or more carts collide!
http://nypost.com/2015/05/26/youre-45-more-likely-to-be-murdered-in-de-blasios-manhattan/
Murders are way up so far this year in Manhattan, The NY Post reports. An increase of about 45 percent.
I wander why his undertaking of making NY safer by adding speeding cameras just made NY more dangerous?
Do you know what vision zero is? The mayor has a vision for us to have zero inour pockets!! JUST SAYING!!