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Title: Changing the Odds for Safety with Laws and Enforcement Track: Change Format: 90 minute moderated discussion Abstract: Traffic fatalities have become a worldwide epidemic - 1.3 million people die in traffic crashes every year. Learn about recent successes in laws for cycling and walking, volunteer-led education actions, and enforcement that helps make roads safer for all modes. This panel will include advocacy, law and enforcement experts. Presenters: Presenter: Steph Routh Hopscotch Town Co-Presenter: Noah Budnick Transportation Alternatives Co-Presenter: Ray Thomas Swanson, Thomas, Coon & Newton
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From 100,000 Voices
to Vision Zero
Changing the Odds for Safety:
With Laws and Enforcement
Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
September 9, 2014
Noah Budnick
Deputy Director
Transportation Alternatives
@noahbudnick
Committed to improving every New Yorker’s safety and walking, biking & transit options.
• EST: 1973
• Staff: 27 full-time, 35 part-time
• Members: 12,000
• Street Activists: 100,000
ABOUT TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES
Mad
• A New Yorker is killed every 31 hours
• Every three hours, a New Yorker suffers a serious injury: dismemberment,
disfigurement, or permanent disability
• Every eight minutes, a New Yorker is injured in traffic
Traffic crashes are the #1 cause
of injury-related death for children.
• 12% of City residents are older than 65
• 36% of pedestrians killed in traffic crashes are older than 65
• Traffic crashes are the #2 cause of injury related death for seniors
(after falls)
• Traffic deaths and serious injuries are
preventable: Vision Zero is a city where no
one is killed in traffic.
• People are imperfect; they make mistakes:
Our street policies must be designed to
encourage people to make better choices, and
to minimize the danger posed when people
don’t make the best choices.
• We know why traffic crashes happen.
Therefore, we can and must act to prevent the
ensuing injuries and deaths.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
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Road Fatalities in New York City
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
(%) Voters polled Very important
Important/Not
important
Growing the economy and creating jobs 96 99/1
Preserving the quality of the mass transit system 83 96/3
Cracking down on reckless driving to improve safety 75 95/4
Fostering safer and more walkable neighborhoods 72 94/5
Protecting the environment and city parks 60 94/7
Reducing traffic congestion 51 91/7
ISSUE IMPORTANCE
I’m going to read you some issues facing New York City. Please
tell me if you think the following issue is very important, somewhat
important, not very important, or not at all important.
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
T.A. 2013 Election Year Platform:
The Safety First Plan: A Five-Borough Blueprint for New York City Streets
• Data Driven Traffic Safety Enforcement
• Though more New Yorkers are killed in traffic than murdered by guns, the New York City Police Department does not take its traffic safety mandate seriously. The data driven strategy that helped reduce street crime is not applied to traffic crime. Many of the most serious infractions -- vehicular speeding and failure to yield to pedestrians -- do not receive adequate enforcement priority. The next mayor must strengthen the NYPD’s commitment to traffic safety by instituting a data driven, zero tolerance policy for traffic deaths and serious injuries and set and start work on a multi-year goal of eliminating traffic deaths in New York City.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
AUGUST RALLY
• BRATTON EVENT?
“We aren’t going to wait and lose a son, a daughter, a parent
or a grandparent in another senseless and painful tragedy.
Our top responsibility is protecting the health and safety of our
people. From tougher enforcement to more safely-designed
streets and stronger laws—our work starts today”
- Mayor Bill de Blasio, January 15, 2014
STRATEGIC PLANNING
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
• Home Rule over the Speed
Limit and Automated
Enforcement Programs
• Targeted enforcement of the
most dangerous offenses
• Redesign of major arterial
streets
STRATEGIC PLANNING
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
The NYPD is applying data driven strategies to street safety
• 70% of fatal pedestrian crashes are caused by motorists who make
dangerous choices; speeding and failure to yield were the two leading causes
of injury and death
The NYPD has publically established Vision Zero as a target
• Communicate problems, solutions and goals
• Significant increase in enforcement of the most dangerous violations
– Speeding
– Failure to yield
• Increasing engagement with communities and the media
• Participating in Vision Zero forums and partnering on education campaigns
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
• 25MPH
DATA DRIVEN SAFETY
60% of pedestrian fatalities
occur on only 15% of our
streets - arterial streets, which
are wide streets that carry high
volumes of traffic at high
speed.
In addition, pedestrian crashes
on arterial streets are
approximately 66% more
deadly than crashes on smaller
streets
ARTERIAL TRANSFORMATION
ARTERIAL TRANSFORMATION
November 13-15, 2014
• Learn about Vision Zero in the public
policy and behavior change contexts
• See real world examples of Vision Zero
• Share best practices for maximum results
• More information: transalt.org/VZCS
Noah Budnick
Deputy Director
Transportation Alternatives
@noahbudnick
