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The Brian Lehrer Show

Vision Zero Turns 10

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Politics, News, News Commentary, Wnyc, Radio, Npr, Arts, New, Lerer, Media, Bryan, Nyc, Daily News, York, Public

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

New York City launched the Vision Zero street safety program ten years ago. Alec Hamilton, WNYC's senior producer for Morning Edition, talks about the progress it made and the many challenges that still remain as people continue to be killed or injured on the streets in high numbers, plus listeners weigh in with the intersections they think need safety upgrades.

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0:00.0

Brian Laird on W.N.C. and'll close the show today by inviting you to call in and help us report

0:17.0

the story of the 10th anniversary of the New York City Street Safety Plan called Vision Zero,ed out by the DeBlazio administration, the program

0:26.4

has now been implemented for a full decade since 2014, but the number of pedestrian

0:32.0

fatalities remains high far from zero all this week the

0:36.5

WNY newsroom will be looking at the legacy of the program where it has

0:41.6

succeeded in making streets safer, which it has in a bunch of cases

0:45.9

and where it has failed.

0:47.7

So listeners, here's where you come in for today's end of show call in.

0:52.1

Since implementing Vision Zero is literally

0:54.3

a block-by-block pursuit, help us report this story.

0:58.0

What intersections or stretches of road near you

1:02.0

do you find concerning?

1:03.6

Put it on our reporters map.

1:05.6

212 433 WNYC.

1:09.2

212 433 962.

1:14.8

and beyond that give us a Vision Zero success story if you have one from your neighborhood

1:19.9

to model it for others.

1:21.3

212 433, 962.

1:25.0

So for example, Queens Boulevard, as many of you

1:27.4

know, used to be called the Boulevard of Death.

1:30.2

And then they put in a bike lane which improved safety significantly.

1:37.0

That's one example.

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