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🗓️ 4 February 2024
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0:00.0 | A decade ago, on January 15, |
0:03.0 | Bill DiBlazio visited the site of a tragedy. |
0:06.0 | It was the intersection where an eight-year-old boy named Neshat Nahan was killed by a semi-truck |
0:11.0 | as he walked to school. |
0:12.0 | I stood a few moments ago. killed by a semi truck as he walked to school. |
0:12.6 | I stood a few moments ago at No Schatz Memorial |
0:18.1 | and you could feel there how great the sense of loss was you could feel how different things could |
0:26.3 | have been and you could see exactly where his life was lost and that it didn't have to be that way. |
0:34.0 | De Blasio was just two weeks into his first term as mayor of New York City. |
0:38.0 | He came to give a speech, but first he spoke to the boy's parents. |
0:42.0 | I could tell it was deeply painful, but I also admired that they wanted to tell their story. |
0:48.1 | They wanted their son's memory to continue and they wanted us to learn and act. |
0:53.5 | De Blaseo's speech laid out how New York City would act. |
0:57.0 | He announced that New York would be the first U.S. City to officially adopt a policy called Vision Zero. |
1:03.2 | The goal is literally to reduce fatalities on our roadways to Zero. |
1:08.2 | The core concept is it treats every death as preventable. Vision Zero is a road safety approach first pioneered in Sweden, where it was a big success. |
1:18.0 | After New York signed up to the program, dozens of cities across the U.S. followed. |
1:22.0 | What a beautiful December day in Washington, D.C. |
1:25.9 | I'm pleased to see you all here. |
1:28.3 | And I'm even more pleased to talk about Vision Zero. |
1:32.3 | San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, |
1:35.2 | where the mayor signed the executive directive |
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