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Introduction to Intro 1138: Universal daylighting proposal
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Eric Beaton introduces Intro 1138, which proposes universal daylighting at all intersections across New York City. The bill aims to enhance safety for all road users, particularly pedestrians, by prohibiting parking near crosswalks.
- Intro 1138 would prohibit standing or parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk at intersections
- The bill requires DOT to implement hardened daylighting at a minimum of 1,000 intersections each year
- DOT shares the council's commitment to enhancing safety, particularly at intersections
- In 2023, DOT redesigned 2,988 intersections with various safety treatments
Eric Beaton
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Next, intro eleven thirty eight sponsored by council member one.
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This bill would prohibit standing or parking a vehicle within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection or require daylighting at all intersections across the city, and require DOT to implement hardened daylighting, or daylighting with physical infrastructure installed, at a minimum of 1,000 intersections each year.
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DOT shares the council's commitment to enhancing safety for all road users, particularly our most vulnerable road users, pedestrians.
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We also share the council's interest in enhancing safety at intersections.
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Last year we redesigned 02/1988 intersections with a wide range of treatments.
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We published Vision Zero borough safety action plans using a data driven approach which show us where our safety improvements will have the greatest effect and help us determine where to implement projects.
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The plans identify priority corridors and priority intersections based on locations where the most pedestrians were killed or severely injured using multiple years of data.
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We then use our robust toolkit to implement targeted treatments that produce the greatest safety benefits at these locations which include hardened daylighting and other treatments.
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This approach is working.
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Traffic fatalities in 2024 were 15% lower than the year before Vision Zero began despite the pandemic era rise in dangerous driving.
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But let me be clear, one death is too many and we have more work to do.