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Vision Zero achievements and equity in street safety
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Commissioner Rodriguez highlights the achievements of the Vision Zero initiative over the past ten years and emphasizes the equitable distribution of street safety improvements across New York City.
- Traffic fatalities in 2023 were at their lowest level since 2020, down 5% since the start of the Adams administration.
- Senior pedestrian fatalities were at the lowest in recorded history, down 17% from 2022.
- The equity and street safety report shows that traffic deaths have declined most significantly in lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
- These neighborhoods have received a higher share of street redesigns since Vision Zero began in 2014.
Ydanis Rodriguez
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Let's talk about Vision Zero.
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Last year marked ten year anniversary since the start of vision zero.
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Something that my soul worked together with Melissa Pespica Viberita at that time and Mayor Di Blasio.
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And today with the new leadership of the council and Mayor Adams, we continue working around vision zero.
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Traffic fatalities were at their lowest level since 2020.
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Down 5% since the start of the Adams administration.
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Senior pedestrian fatalities were at the lowest in recorded history.
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Down seventeen percent from '23.
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Since the program began in 2014, the agency has been committed to bringing road safety to every corner of the five boroughs and distributing our street improvement project equitable.
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And that commitment is having results.
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As shown in our recently released equity and a street safety report, traffic deaths have declined most significantly in lower income neighborhood and neighborhood of color in our working class community.
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And this neighborhood have received a higher share of a suite redesigns since vision zero began.
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Of course, as mayor Allen said, myself, you chair, and the council, one dead is too many for all New Yorkers.
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And we will continue to work to deliver high impact project across the city That enhance road safety and bring us closer to the goal of zero fatality on our street.