Overview
- Transportation Alternatives, Families for Safe Streets, and Open Plans say 12,261 people have been killed or seriously injured since 2022 and pinpoint 118 intersections with at least five such crashes, affecting nearly 3 million residents nearby.
- Backers are urging a vote on Intro. 1138 to ban parking within 20 feet of every intersection and to require installing hard barriers at 1,000 corners annually.
- DOT says it will keep using a data-driven, targeted strategy under Vision Zero and cites its study warning that universal daylighting without physical barriers could increase injuries, noting some listed hotspots already have daylighting.
- Reporting from Streetsblog and Gothamist says the speaker has engaged with a DOT counterproposal to daylight about 100 sites per year without a barrier mandate, and that sponsor Julie Won is weighing scaling the bill to roughly three-quarters of intersections.
- The measure counts 27 co-sponsors and would need at least 34 votes to override a likely mayoral veto, with council leaders saying negotiations continue ahead of the session’s final stated meeting.