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Press Releases
View our press releases and statements about reports, traffic violence, and safe streets in New York City.
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Alexa Sledge
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Jacob deCastro
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![Families for Safe Streets Releases New Report Analyzing the Deaths of the 100 Children Killed by Traffic Violence Since the Launch of Vision Zero, Memorial Website](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/b38df663-8f17-44d3-b568-cbe55cc1cd53/20221012TransAltMorningBikeTrain-6.jpg)
Families for Safe Streets Releases New Report Analyzing the Deaths of the 100 Children Killed by Traffic Violence Since the Launch of Vision Zero, Memorial Website
One-third of the children killed while walking or biking were killed on their way to or from school.
![Statement from Transportation Alternatives on Urgent Need to Redesign McGuinness Boulevard Following Reports that Mayor Adams Reversed Redesign](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1688674163813-NG7Y9C1JZD7628LLED1M/DSC01383.jpg)
Statement from Transportation Alternatives on Urgent Need to Redesign McGuinness Boulevard Following Reports that Mayor Adams Reversed Redesign
There have been dozens of community meetings on the McGuinness project. There are 18 schools within a quarter-mile of McGuinness Boulevard.
![Statement from Transportation Alternatives as Congestion Pricing Clears Final Federal Hurdle](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1687980319706-E5HV6W50XXFWL14H76DW/53006302911_80571efae2_k.jpg)
![Transportation Alternatives Releases New Report Showing Benefit of Adjusting Vehicle Fees, Calls on State Lawmakers to Pass New Legislation from Senator Gounardes, Assemblymember Mamdani](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/18f95ab4-4e4e-45c5-ae6f-996678dcfabf/DSC01622.jpg)
Transportation Alternatives Releases New Report Showing Benefit of Adjusting Vehicle Fees, Calls on State Lawmakers to Pass New Legislation from Senator Gounardes, Assemblymember Mamdani
For every 1,000 pound increase in vehicle weight, there is a 46% increase in motorist fatalities.
![Testimony: Oversight Hearing on Electric Vehicle Infrastructure](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1679417962755-RRRPQ1HQL48GM46JVWCF/TA+Logo+Gray+Social+Card.png)
![With Strong Majority Support in State Assembly, Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets Demand Assembly Pass Sammy’s Law When Session Resumes ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/cd75d6d6-d377-4c5d-8562-929ab95a143d/DSC00920.jpg)
With Strong Majority Support in State Assembly, Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets Demand Assembly Pass Sammy’s Law When Session Resumes
Since Sammy’s Law was introduced on January 20, 2023, 88 New Yorkers have been killed by traffic violence.
![Safe Streets Hunger Strikers Demand Speaker Heastie Call Vote on Sammy’s Law After Speeding Driver Kills Pedestrian in Midwood](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1679417962755-RRRPQ1HQL48GM46JVWCF/TA+Logo+Gray+Social+Card.png)
![Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets Statements After State Senate Passes Sammy’s Law](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/e742fd15-c43d-494d-b9bb-966d57054a98/DSC00760.jpeg)
![Safe Streets Advocates Demand Action After SUV Driver Kills Bicycle Rider in Greenpoint](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/25f72c1e-a9f0-481a-91b8-c512e016d674/Driggs+and+Monitor.png)
![Transportation Alternatives Statement After SUV Driver Kills Bike Rider in Sheepshead Bay](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1679417962755-RRRPQ1HQL48GM46JVWCF/TA+Logo+Gray+Social+Card.png)
![Statement from Transportation Alternatives After City Council Passes Home Rule Resolution Supporting Sammy’s Law ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/77050667-018c-46a8-ab52-67cb70c30c09/IMG_1729.jpg)
Statement from Transportation Alternatives After City Council Passes Home Rule Resolution Supporting Sammy’s Law
Sammy’s Law would allow New York City to finally set its own speed limits. 42% of pedestrians struck by motor vehicles at an impact speed of 25 mph will sustain serious injury or die.
![Transportation Alternatives Statement After Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian in East Harlem](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1679417962755-RRRPQ1HQL48GM46JVWCF/TA+Logo+Gray+Social+Card.png)
Transportation Alternatives Statement After Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian in East Harlem
Crashes have killed 85 people in 2023 — a fatality rate 9% higher than the Vision Zero-era average. Traffic violence has killed 36 pedestrians in 2023.
![Transportation Alternatives Releases New Policy Agenda for New York City to Successfully and Safely Embrace E-Micromobility](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/f588a9df-b96e-452c-9319-c192d6c91d8f/DSC00560.jpeg)
Transportation Alternatives Releases New Policy Agenda for New York City to Successfully and Safely Embrace E-Micromobility
The new e-micromobility position paper details Transportation Alternatives’ recommendations for e-bike and e-scooter policy in the city.
![State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal; Assemblymembers Jo Anne Simon, Zohran Mamdani; Council Members Christopher Marte, Shahana Hanif, Carlina Rivera Join FSS, TA, Advocates At Rally for Sammy’s Law](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1683921765994-Y8C3U45GD9SU70LKOEXL/DSC00323.jpg)
![Transportation Alternatives Statement After Truck Driver Kills Bike Rider in Bed-Stuy](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1684270842871-XU3OV2Q9CA2X4V6W3P9W/DSC00234.jpg)
![Traffic Crashes Killed 51 People in the First Three Months of 2023, Including Vision Zero-Era Record Nine Bike Riders](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1684271044340-WDYG5ISJHJCHMOCX6X3V/TA+FSS+Social.png)
![Transportation Alternatives Statement After Hit-And-Run Driver of SUV Kills 14-Year-Old Boy Riding a Bike in Astoria](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1679417962755-RRRPQ1HQL48GM46JVWCF/TA+Logo+Gray+Social+Card.png)
![Transportation Alternatives Statement After Three Crashes Kill Two Pedestrians, One Bike Rider in Four Hours](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1684271044340-WDYG5ISJHJCHMOCX6X3V/TA+FSS+Social.png)
![Council Members Shekar Krishnan and Erik Bottcher, Transportation Alternatives, Open Plans, Advocates Urge DOT to Improve Open Streets for Schools in Open Letter](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e29e189cbb31405a731aac/1684271143067-CKT6YYMKAQL8UUCSQCX4/DSC00063.jpeg)