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New York City’s Deadly Super Speeder Threat Exploded This Summer; More Than 16,000 Dangerous Drivers Would Have Been Slowed Down if the Program Had Immediately Gone Into Effect

Including the three months after the Stop Super Speeders bill was signed into law, a total of 16,510 drivers would have now qualified if the program had immediately gone into effect. To qualify, ...
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Transportation Alternatives, Families for Safe Streets Statements After Weekend of Carnage Kills Five New Yorkers

164 New Yorkers have been killed in traffic so far this year, including 14 children. More than twice as many children have been killed in traffic this year compared to this point last year. 23 bike ...
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Updated Spatial Equity Tool From TA, MIT Shows Widespread Inequity, Racial and Economic Divides in Bus Speeds, Plaza Access, Flood Exposure; Demonstrates Need for Congestion ...

Spatial Equity NYC, an online data tool released by Transportation Alternatives and the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) at MIT, depicts the impact of car-centric planning and ...
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FIELD TOURS

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Your City Your Voice Activist TrainingLocation: Wagner Park ClassroomYour City, Your Voice shares the lessons learned over years of hyper-local, grassroots activism. Absorb the ...
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Child & Pedestrian Fatalities Rose in 2024 While 132 Vehicles Received 100+ Safety Camera Tickets, With Two Exceeding 500, New Data from Transportation Alternatives & Families ...

Child fatalities rose 33% in 2024, from 12 to 16, tied with 2022 as the worst year for child fatalities under Vision Zero, and double the number of child fatalities in 2018, the safest year under ...
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New York Electeds Call on the Mamdani Administration to Fully Implement Sammy’s Law

Dear Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Department of Transportation, We, the original sponsors of Sammy’s Law, along with the undersigned elected officials from across New York City, are ...
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After 24/7 Speed Cameras, Safety Projects, and over a Decade of Vision Zero, Historically Safe 2025 on New York City’s Streets Demonstrates the Need to Double Down on What Works

NEW YORK — In 2025, after the installation of 24/7 speed safety cameras, street redesigns, and over a decade committed to Vision Zero, traffic crashes killed 206 New Yorkers, making it tied for the ...
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Open Streets Forever

Open Streets are popular, beloved, effective, and lifesaving. But, new research from Transportation Alternatives (TA) found that the benefits of Open Streets — from reduced traffic violence to ...
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New Data from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets Shows Vision Zero Works, Should Be Expanded; Congestion Pricing Has Made Streets Safer

Pedestrian fatalities remain high in Brooklyn, where the Adams administration has stalled and reversed several street safety projects. In the first half of 2025, there were 90 fatalities in NYC — a ...
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Transportation Alternatives Releases “The Road to Affordability: A Streets and Transportation Agenda for the Next Mayor of NYC”, Plan Outlining How Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can ...

When Mayor-elect Mamdani takes office on January 1, he will control over 6,300 miles of streets throughout the five boroughs. Reducing car dependence is one of the best ways to reduce costs for New ...
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“Like Shooting a Gun Into a Crowd”: Just 10 Drivers Threaten 2.5 Million New Yorkers, According to New Data from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets

In 2025, the top 10 super speeders in New York State were caught by New York City’s school zone speed cameras an average of 179 times each, at least once every other day, with the most reckless driver ...
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“Where is Mayor Mamdani’s Vision Zero Plan?” Child and Cyclist Fatalities Rise as Advocates Demand a Comprehensive Street Safety Strategy

Traffic fatalities are up 86% for bike riders and 50% for children. 100% of pedestrians were killed in intersections without complete hardened daylighting. 1,500 pedestrians have now been killed since ...