Traffic Safety Improvements in New York City
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SAFE STREETSDEPT OF TRANSPORTATION nyc Traffic Safety Improvements In New York City MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG JANETTE SADIK-KHAN mayor June 2007 commissioner Safe Streets NYC: Traffic Safety Improvements in New York City June 2007 DISCLAIMER: The preparation fo this report was funded by the Federal Highway Administration of the United States Department of Transportation and the New York State Department of Transpor- tation. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Federal Highway Administration or New York State Department of Transportation. This document is disseminated by the New York City Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. This report does not consitute a standard, specification or regulation. Note: All new content since the last publication of this report (April 2006) is identified by red bold fonts. May 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS IMPROVING TRAFFIC SAFETY 1 Fatalities 2 NYC Compared to the USA 5 Severe Injuries 7 Traffic Accidents 8 High Accident Locations 9 Locations Discussed in this Report 14 THE BRONX 15 Grand Concourse 16 Grand Concourse Pedestrian Safety Demonstration Project 20 Grand Concourse and East 170th Street 27 Grand Concourse and East 183rd Street 29 South Bronx Churches 31 East Fordham Road, East Kingsbridge Road, Bainbridge Avenue 36 University Avenue, West 181st Street, Hall of Fame Terrace 40 BROOKLYN 43 Grand Army Plaza 44 Improvements in the Vicinity of Eastern Parkway & Kings Highway, Linden Boulevard, Remsen Avenue 48 Eastern Parkway 49 Kings Highway, Linden Boulevard, Remsen Avenue 60 Ocean Parkway 69 Bushwick Ave, East New York Ave, Jackie Robinson Parkway 71 Gerritsen Avenue 75 Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Improvements 80 Court Street 82 Smith Street 84 Fulton Street Corridor 86 MANHATTAN 92 East 20th Street and First Avenue 93 Park Avenue and East 33rd Street 97 Edgecombe Avenue 101 Upper Park Avenue 104 West 30th Street and 9th Avenue 109 Triangle at Canal, Laight and Varick Streets 112 Improvements in the Vicinity of Henry Hudson Parkway and West 95th and 96th Streets 118 Henry Hudson Parkway Interchange 120 West 95th Street and Riverside Drive 125 West 96th Street and Broadway 128 West 95th Street between Riverside Drive, and Amsterdam Avenue 131 West 96th Street and West End Avenue 133 QUEENS 135 Queens Boulevard 136 Queens Boulevard Pedestrian Study 138 Queens Boulevard Pedestrian Study (Phase II) 147 Queens Boulevard High Accident Location Improvements 154 Queens Boulevard, Woodhaven Blvd, and 59th Avenue 155 Queens Boulevard, Van Dam Street and Thompson Avenue 157 Shore Front Parkway 159 Rockaway Freeway 163 Linden Boulevard and South Conduit Avenue 165 Main Street: Southbound Service Road at 68th Drive 167 Main Street: Southbound Service Road at 73rd Avenue 169 Cooper Avenue Underpass and 74th Street 171 Van Wyck Expressway and North Conduit Avenue 174 Northern Boulevard Corridor 177 Northern Boulevard and Clearview Expressway 181 Francis Lewis Boulevard between 120th Avenue/220th Street and 125th Avenue/232nd Street 184 Francis Lewis Boulevard between Springfield Boulevard and 120th Avenue/220th Street 187 69th Street, Grand Avenue and Long Island Expressway 189 Parson’s Boulevard and Kissena Boulevard 191 80th Avenue 194 STATEN ISLAND 197 Hylan Boulevard 198 Hylan Boulevard Left Turn Improvements 203 Hylan Boulevard and Reynolds Street 207 Father Capodanno Boulevard 209 Page Avenue and P.S. 6 211 Borough Wide Daylighting Initiative 214 Forest Avenue, Morningside Road and Richmond Avenue 217 Narrows Road South and Richmond Road 220 BROOKLYN / QUEENS 222 Atlantic Avenue Safety Improvements 223 Atlantic Avenue- Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway Boulevard 225 Atlantic Avenue- Brooklyn Corridor 227 Atlantic Avenue- Safety Study 229 CITYWIDE INITIATIVES 231 Citywide Oversized Street Name Signs 232 Improving Safety at Intermodal Transit Stops / Bus Stops under the El 236 36th Avenue and 31st Street 241 39th Avenue and 31st Street 242 Jerome Avenue and Burnside Avenue 245 Bay Parkway and 86th Street 251 Citywide Pedestrian Bridge Safety Project 255 IMPROVING TRAFFIC SAFETY IMPROVING TRAFFIC Fatalities SAFETY Over the past several years, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has actively accelerated its efforts to improve pedestrian and traffic safety by instituting a proactive and systematic approach to the identification of locations throughout the city where innovative safety mitigation measures need to be implemented. While the scope and scale of these projects vary in terms of improvements, there is no greater testament to the City’s efforts than the decline of both pedestrian and vehicular fatalities over the past seventeen years. Some of the most remarkable strides have been Fatalities by Mode: Percentage Share - 2004, 2005 and 2006 made over the past three years 60% Fatalities by Mode - 2004, 2005 and 2006 as the Department has seen 50% 52% 51% 180 49% fatalities reach historic lows. In 40% 160 162 30% 156 2004, a watershed year for 156 Fatalities (%) 24% 140 20% 23% 22% 14% 14% traffic safety, traffic-related 120 10% 12% 7% 7% 8% 7% 5% 5% fatalities fell to 298, the lowest 100 0% Pedestrians Drivers Passengers Motorcyclists Bicyclists tally since 1910 when there 80 2004 2005 2006 77 Total Fatalities were 332 fatalities. In 2005, 60 68 68 fatalities increased slightly to 40 45 45 36 20 22 24 321, but by 2006 fatalities had 22 16 21 16 0 fallen again to 315, the second Pedestrians Drivers Passengers Motorcyclists Bicyclists lowest annual total. 2004 2005 2006 SAFE STREETS NYC 2 Since 1990, traffic fatalities decreased by 55.1%. Some of the most noticeable improvements have occurred more recently as fatalities have declined 20% since 2001. An examination of fatalities by mode finds that all modes have experienced significant declines over the past 17 years. As indicated in the table and chart below, pedestrian fatalities have fallen by 55.7% since 1990, to 162 in 2006 from 366, and have, in the past 17 years, averaged approximately 50% of all fatalities. This is a dramatic improvement since 1950 when pedestrians made YEAR Pedestrians Drivers Passengers Motorcyclists Bicyclists TOTAL 1990 366 160 121 34 20 701 1991 304 169 101 31 21 626 Total Fatalities By Mode: 1990 - 2006 1992 291 152 93 37 19 592 1993 284 130 76 29 17 536 400 1994 246 120 86 21 15 488 1995 242 120 79 25 18 484 1996 235 101 63 10 17 426 1997 254 130 74 13 22 493 1998 183 94 57 14 20 368 350 1999 202 114 46 23 35 420 2000 187 95 59 21 18 380 2001 192 105 58 24 13 392 2002 189 103 53 19 22 386 2003 177 93 55 19 17 361 300 2004 156 68 36 22 16 298 2005 156 77 45 22 21 321 2006 162 68 45 24 16 315 250 TOTAL 3826 1899 1147 388 327 7587 200 Fatalities 150 100 50 0 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 Pedestrians Drivers Passengers Motorcyclists Bicyclists SAFE STREETS NYC up more than three-quarters of all fatalities. Driver fatalities reached an all-time low in 2006, declining 59.7% to 68 from a high of 169 in 1991. Passenger fatalities experienced the greatest decline of 62.8%, to 45 in 2006 from 121 in 1990. Particularly in the last three years, nearly all modes have experienced historic lows. Fatalities as a percentage by mode have remained fairly consistent on an annual basis. However, even with the sizeable decrease in overall pedestrian fatalities, this mode continues to be the largest at-risk group, as they are involved in approximately one-half of all fatal accidents. The table below represents these trends over the past 17 years. Fatalities as Percentage (%) by Mode 1990-2006 YEAR Pedestrians Drivers Passengers Motorcyclists Bicyclists TOTAL 1990 52.2% 22.8% 17.3% 4.9% 2.9% 701 1991 48.6% 27.0% 16.1% 5.0% 3.4% 626 1992 49.2% 25.7% 15.7% 6.3% 3.2% 592 1993 53.0% 24.3% 14.2% 5.4% 3.2% 536 1994 50.4% 24.6% 17.6% 4.3% 3.1% 488 1995 50.0% 24.8% 16.3% 5.2% 3.7% 484 1996 55.2% 23.7% 14.8% 2.3% 4.0% 426 1997 51.5% 26.4% 15.0% 2.6% 4.5% 493 1998 49.7% 25.5% 15.5% 3.8% 5.4% 368 1999 48.1% 27.1% 11.0% 5.5% 8.3% 420 2000 49.2% 25.0% 15.5% 5.5% 4.7% 380 2001 49.0% 26.8% 14.8% 6.1% 3.3% 392 2002 49.0% 26.7% 13.7% 4.9% 5.7% 386 2003 49.0% 25.8% 15.2% 5.3% 4.7% 361 2004 52.3% 22.8% 12.1% 7.4% 5.4% 298 2005 48.6% 24.0% 14.0% 6.9% 6.5% 321 2006 51.4% 21.6% 14.3% 7.6% 5.1% 315 Percent of TOTAL 1990-2006 50.4% 25.0% 15.1% 5.1% 4.3% 7587 SAFE STREETS NYC NYC compared to the U.S.A. Of all the cities in the nation with populations exceding 250,000, New York City has the lowest traffic fatality rate per 100,000 persons. A 2004 report by the U.S. Department of Transportation found that the City’s rate of 3.7 traffic fatalities per 100,000 persons was the lowest of all major cities. Cities such as Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Detroit had rates of 6.8, 7.8, and 13.7, respectively. Based on 2000 population data, the rate of traffic fatalities in New York City decreased by half from 1991 to 2005, while across the nation as a whole, the rate of total traffic fatalities increased during this same time period by 4.8%.