Yeshiva Torah Temimah School District 39
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New York City Department of Transportation Yeshiva Torah Temimah School District 39 DATE: December 11, 2012 TO: Honorable Council Member Lander RE: Capital Funding Request REQUEST: $300,000 Project Description The Department of Transportation has developed school safety maps for 1,471 schools throughout the City. Schools currently in the program are primarily elementary and intermediate schools with an enrollment of at least 250 students. The safety plans include the designation of official school crosswalks, identified by prominent warning signs and roadway markings. DOT also designates curbside locations for school bus loading and unloading and other parking controls to improve conditions for students. In addition, nearly 350 speed reducers (humps) have been installed in the immediate vicinity of schools. Under this consultant study, the School Safety Engineering Project, crash data in the vicinity of all program schools was reviewed. As a result, schools were ranked in terms of pedestrian safety, and 135 “priority” schools were identified Citywide. At each of these priority schools safety improvements are being recommended (e.g., new school crosswalks, new traffic signals and signal timing modifications, new speed reducers). In addition, 32 of these schools will receive further investigation to design physical improvements (e.g., raised center medians, widened sidewalks, “neckdowns” or “bulbouts” at intersections). Yeshiva Torah Temimah School is one of the 135 priority schools. Data • Accidents between 1998-2004: 737 of which five were school-related • Proposed long-term safety measures include the installation of curb extensions which will shorten the crossing distance thereby enhancing pedestrian safety • Construction is projected to begin in FY14 New York City Department of Transportation Office of School Safety Engineering School Safety Engineering Project FINAL REPORT: Yeshiva Torah Temimah School, Brooklyn Prepared by The RBA Group/Urbitran Associates OCTOBER 6, 2006 s T S 8 E FOSTER AV PARKVILLE AV NEWKIRK AV LAWRENCE AV T WEBSTER AV S 8 E EXHIBIT 1 18 AV BROOKLYN YESHIVA TORAH TEMIMAH AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH F V A 1 inch equals 200 feet V A S A M T I D T S 7 Y P E N A E C O T S 4 T E S 5 E D R U O Y L E T R O C Page 8 Yeshiva Torah Temimah School, Brooklyn 3.5 ACCIDENT SUMMARY Exhibit 4 and Table 2 show a summary of accidents, as obtained from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), in the vicinity of Yeshiva Torah Temimah School for the three-year period from January 1, 1998 through December 31, 2000. The DMV data provides some detail relating to the circumstances and cause of the accidents. Table 3 is a summary of more recent accident data obtained from the NYC Police Department (NYPD). Though current through 2004, the NYPD data does not provide the same level of detail as the DMV data. This report targets intersections closest to the school where the highest concentration of student pedestrians occurs. Intersections farther from the school and locations for which detailed data was not available at the time of this study will be addressed with the ongoing work of DOT’s School Safety Engineering Program. DMV accident data is discussed in Section 3.6, Traffic Operations and Issues. TABLE 2: DMV THREE-YEAR ACCIDENT SUMMARY (1998-2000) SCHOOL- INTERSECTION TOTAL PEDESTRIAN PEDESTRIAN RELATED ACCIDENTS ACCIDENTS FATALITIES ACCIDENTS* Ocean Parkway and 18th Avenue 167** 7 0 0 Ocean Parkway and Ditmas Ave 103** 7 0 0 East 7th Street and 18th Avenue 9 0 0 0 East 7th Street and Ditmas Avenue 23 3 0 0 East 8th Street and 18th Avenue 15 1 0 1 East 8th Street and Ditmas Avenue 20 1 0 1 TOTAL 337 19 0 2 TABLE 3: NYPD FOUR-YEAR ACCIDENT SUMMARY (2001-2004) SCHOOL- INTERSECTION TOTAL PEDESTRIAN PEDESTRIAN RELATED ACCIDENTS ACCIDENTS FATALITIES ACCIDENTS* Ocean Parkway and 18th Avenue*** 168 - - - Ocean Parkway and Ditmas Ave*** 160 - - - East 7th Street and 18th Avenue 8 0 0 0 East 7th Street and Ditmas Avenue 40 6 0 2 East 8th Street and 18th Avenue 11 0 0 0 East 8th Street and Ditmas Avenue 13 1 0 1 TOTAL 400 7 0 3 * School-Related Accidents are defined as accidents involving school-age pedestrians (age 4 – 14), occurring weekdays during the school year. **Accidents on mainline and service roads are summarized *** There is no information on the number of accidents that involved pedestrians School Safety Engineering Project FINAL Recommendations Report Page 16 T S 9 E FOSTER AV s PARKVILLE AV NEWKIRK AV LAWRENCE AV WEBSTER AV 15/ 1/ 0/ 1 3/ 0/ 0/ 0 2/ 0/ 0/ 0 9/ 0/ 0/ 0 82/ 4/ 0/ 0 43/ 1/ 0/ 0 42/ 2/ 0/ 0 U U U U U U 18 AV U EXHIBIT 4 BROOKLYN 7/ 1/ 0/ 0 U (1998-2000) 3/ 0/ 0/ 0 U F YESHIVA TORAH TEMIMAH ACCIDENT SUMMARY AV AV 7/ 1/ 0/ 0 U THREE YEAR PERIOD T S 5 E 10/ 0/ 0/ 0 U U 9/ 0/ 0/ 0 8/ 0/ 0/ 0 U T S 9 E 20/ 1/ 0/ 1 U 4/ 1/ 0/ 0 Y U 1 inch equals 250 feet 1/ 0/ 0/ 0 P U N T A 23/ 3/ 0/ 0 S U CE 8 O E T 45/ 3/ 0/ 0 S U 4 31/ 0/ 0/ 0 E U 27/ 4/ 0/ 0 U U SCHOOL_PEDACCIDENTS V T A S S A M 7 T DI E PED FATAL // Page 17 PED ACCIDENTS / TOTAL ACCIDENTS SCHOOL CROSSWALK ASSIGNED TO P.S. 217 SCHOOL CROSSWALK ASSIGNED TO ANOTHER SCHOOL CROSSWALK ACCIDENT LOCATION X/X/X/X Yeshiva Torah Temimah School, Brooklyn 4.2 LONG-TERM MEASURES Install curb extensions at the following intersections: Consideration should be given to installing a curb extension at the following locations, provided that the Final Design confirms that construction of the recommended curb extension would be feasible and would not interfere with traffic operations. Final details pertaining to the number, location and geometry of curb extensions will be developed during the Final Design/Contract Document preparation. - Northeast corner of 18th Avenue and East Seventh Street (on 18th Avenue) - Northwest corner of 18th Avenue and East Eighth Street (on 18th Avenue) - Southeast corner of Ditmas Avenue and East Seventh Street (on Ditmas Avenue) - Southwest corner of Ditmas Avenue and East Eighth Street (on Ditmas Avenue) Curb extensions should be considered at the corners as shown in Exhibit 5. The purpose of the curb extensions is to shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians, and to reduce speeds of vehicles approaching and turning at these heavily utilized school crosswalks (or intersections). These curb extensions would not eliminate or reduce the width of any moving lanes. School Safety Engineering Project FINAL Recommendations Report Page 26 Page 27.