Mayor puts his ‘Vision Zero’ plan in motion
Announces goal of reducing traffic fatalities on city streets
Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced an ambitious plan to reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents on city streets down to zero in 10 years and ordered a group of agencies to work together to come up with a comprehensive road map on how to achieve that goal.
The plan presented by de Blasio on Wednesday is called “Vision Zero” and the agencies involved, including the Police, Transportation, Health and Mental Hygiene departments and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, will function as a working group dedicated to implementing the plan.
So far this year, there have been 11 New Yorkers killed in traffic—seven of them pedestrians, according to the mayor’s office.
“This will be a top-to-bottom effort to take on dangerous streets and dangerous driving. We aren’t going to wait and lose a son, a daughter, a parent or a grandparent in another senseless and painful tragedy,” de Blasio said, adding that he wants the working group to have a particular focus on reducing accidents in which pedestrians are injured or killed.