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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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Child & Pedestrian Fatalities Rose in 2024 While 132 Vehicles Received 100+ Safety Camera Tickets, With Two Exceeding 500, New Data from Transportation Alternatives & Families for Safe Streets
Child and Pedestrian Fatalities Rose in 2024 While 132 Vehicles Received 100 or More Speed Safety Camera Tickets, Including Two Vehicles Who Received More Than 500, New Data from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets Shows
“If Mayor Adams wants to make New York a better place to raise a family, he needs to fix his streets” – Statement from Transportation Alternatives after Mayor Adams’ State of the City Address
NEW YORK — Today, Transportation Alternatives released the following statement after Mayor Adams’ State of the City Address.
Statement from Transportation Alternatives after Tow Truck Driver Strikes and Kills a Pedestrian in Hit-and-Run in the Bronx
Traffic violence has killed 242 New Yorkers this year so far, 15 more than average.
Transportation Alternatives Welcomes Ben Furnas as Next Executive Director
Furnas, an architect of Vision Zero and urban sustainability expert, comes from Cornell University, where he served as the Executive Director of The 2030 Project: a Cornell Climate Initiative
Statement from Transportation Alternatives after Traffic Violence Kills Three New Yorkers and Leaves Two Others Critically Injured over Thanksgiving Weekend
Over the holiday weekend, traffic violence killed three New Yorkers and left two others critically injured. Drivers struck four pedestrians in the Bronx and Brooklyn, killing three people.
These tragedies underscore the alarming and persistent rise in pedestrian fatalities across the city — highlighting an urgent need for action to protect our most vulnerable residents.
Less than Two Months before Congestion Pricing, New Data Analysis from Transportation Alternatives Shows New Yorkers Embracing Biking and Rejecting Car Ownership
Every borough now has fewer car-owning households than it did in 2020.
In October, bike ridership was up at every location where data was recorded.
Both the Williamsburg Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge saw 100,000 more bike trips each in October 2024 than in 2019, a record high for the month.
Statement from Families for Safe Safe Streets on 2024’s World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Queens Community District 7, which includes Flushing, has been the most dangerous district for pedestrians in the last 10 years, and the second-most dangerous district for everyone.
Five children have been killed in Queens so far this year, more than were killed at this point in nine of the last 10 years.
15 children have been killed in New York City so far this year, far above average and more than were killed by this point in nine of the last 10 years.