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“It’s time for the next phase of Vision Zero”: Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets Testify in Vision Zero Oversight Hearing

So far this year, over 170 New Yorkers have been killed in traffic. Per capita, New Yorkers are killed in traffic at double the rate of global peers. Coming in line with cities like London, Berlin, ...
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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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NYC Century

Transportation Alternatives’ mission is to reclaim New York City from cars, transforming our streets into safe, sustainable, and equitable places to walk, bike, take transit, gather, and thrive.
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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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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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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 and Families for Safe Streets Analyze Data From First 10 Years of Vision Zero

Traffic fatalities were 16% lower in the last ten years compared to the decade preceding Vision Zero – a difference of more than 450 lives. Pedestrian fatalities fell 29% from 2014 to 2023. Since the ...
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Lifestyles of the Rich & Reckless: Super Speeders Drive Luxury Cars, Rack Up Millions in Speeding Tickets Annually — New Data from Transportation Alternatives and Families ...

Super speeders are 72% more likely to drive a new vehicle, and 57% more likely to drive a luxury vehicle than the average driver. In 2025, super speeders racked up more than $10 million in speed ...
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Transportation Alternatives, Families for Safe Streets Statements After Dump-Truck Driver Hits and Kills Bike Rider in Midtown

This is the 149th person killed so far in 2026 on New York City streets. This is the 36th person killed in traffic in Manhattan in 2026 — up 33% from this point last year. This is the 20th person ...