‘Vision Zero’ pedestrian safety plan pinpoints Brooklyn’s trouble spots
One Pedestrian Every 3 Days Seriously Injured or Killed
Reaction has been positive in the borough to the Brooklyn Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, which was unveiled on Thursday by NYC Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and NYPD’s Patrol Borough Brooklyn North Deputy Inspector Amin Kosseim.
The plan identifies Brooklyn’s most dangerous corridors, intersections and areas, which are clearly identified in the plan’s Brooklyn Priority Map. The announcement was held at Brooklyn Ascend Charter School in Brownsville, where the Department of Transportation (DOT) will install a midblock pedestrian safety median, traffic signal and a new crosswalk on Rockaway Parkway this year.
Rockaway Parkway is identified as a “Priority Corridor,” meaning that it historically had high rates of death and severe injury to pedestrians. Priority corridors, intersections and areas will be the focus of future engineering and planning, education and enforcement activity. An average of 46 pedestrians were killed in Brooklyn each year in the three-year period from 2011 to 2013.