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DOT's approach to Vision Zero and safety improvements
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Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez outlines DOT's approach to Vision Zero and overall safety improvements, highlighting the success in reducing traffic fatalities. Deputy Commissioner Eric Beaton provides additional context on the department's daylighting study.
- Vision Zero approach includes engineering, education, and enforcement
- New York City has achieved the lowest number of traffic fatalities in 113 years
- DOT defends its daylighting study, stating it included before-and-after analysis of intersections daylit within the past five years
Ydanis Rodriguez
2:51:26
And one thing that I want to highlight to everyone is that with the hardening of daylighting plus all the work that we do around Vision Zero, which is made by the three e.
2:51:37
The first e is the e of engineer.
2:51:39
The second e is the e of educational.
2:51:42
And the three e is the e of enforcement.
2:51:45
But today, we have the lowest numbers of traffic fatality when we are compared to any other year for the last one hundred thirteen years.
2:51:57
We hope to continue seeing these numbers as low as today.
2:52:01
We are proud of the work that we do with hard dining, creating pedestrian island, redesigning our streets to make it safe for pedestrian, for cyclists, and even for drivers.
Julie Won
2:52:11
I also want to just put on the record that the DOT study doesn't even include the before and after analysis of New York City's intersections with daylighting.
Eric Beaton
2:52:20
The study did include a before and after analysis of intersections that were daylight within the past five years which is where we have the good data.
2:52:28
So we did look at that and it did show the particular improvement for hardened daylighting and essentially no change for the other locations that were daylit.