There has also been a reversal in the spike in reckless driving that skyrocketed during COVID and in the years that followed. Cracking down on ghost cars is likely part of the reason

You've been doing this long enough to know that it's never one thing in isolation and varies by mode

The release spells out a few factors: cumulative impact of street redesigns, record bike/ped space, ghost car crackdown, aggressive NYPD enforcement in high-crash corridors, 24/7 speed cams

Episode 8 (Part 2): Eric Beaton on the Truth About Daylighting, Why Bike Lanes Benefit Everyone, and the Future of Vision Zero Podcast Episode · Curb Enthusiasm · 05/20/2025 · 29m

Curious about @nyc-dot.bsky.social's daylighting study, why bike lanes are good for people who don't bike, and the future of Vision Zero?

Check out part 2 of the Curb Enthusiasm podcast with DOT Deputy Commissioner Eric Beaton.

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Truly wonderful. There’s such a huge demand for open streets in New York!

New Today: The Man Who Designs NYC's Streets

Check out Deputy Commissioner Eric Beaton on @NYC_DOT's Curb Enthusiasm Podcast. He's the best of the best.

In part 1 of the episode, he discusses the importance of data in transportation planning.

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The community note

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

I appreciate you saying this. I know there are people who don't want to hear it because it challenges some assumptions. But there has to be a data-driven approach, even when the results are unexpected.

I know some don’t like hearing it and the results of the study were surprising. (It surprised DOT too!) But, we shouldn’t design streets based on gut instincts instead of hard data.

Because there are 40,000 intersections and roughly 160,000 intersection corners, universal hardened daylight is infeasible. It would cost $3 billion and drain critical resources from other mandates and goals that are proven to have even greater safety benefits.

Now, there were some benefits to hardened daylighting, and @nyc-dot.bsky.social has been doing thoughtful, data-driven hardened daylighting at hundreds of locations each year. But, it’s a situational tool and in some cases other safety treatments have greater safety benefits.

And, there is no reason to believe that people wouldn’t illegally park in simple ‘no parking’ areas less often than at a fire hydrant. If anything, you would think a fire hydrant would be a greater deterrent to illegal parking than simple No Parking.

Some have criticized using hydrant zones as a proxy for daylighting because there may have been a car parked there when a crash occurred. But, here’s the rub: when DOT compared daylit to nearby non-daylit locations, the non-daylit (where a car is likely ALWAYS parked) were safer.

The study did similar analysis at 7,000 areas with fire hydrants/bus stops at intersections and the results were similarly negative. These areas are a reasonable proxy for universal daylighting because they are no parking zones at intersections that were indiscriminately placed.

The hypothesis is that the wider turn radius and drivers’ belief that they had a fuller range of sight caused them to take turns faster and more carelessly. The report also looked at similar nearby intersections without daylighting and found they were actually safer.

Before/after analysis at daylit locations in the city found that those without ‘hardened’ daylighting - which is what universal daylighting would be - made intersections less safe, on average.

The universal daylighting bill will not yield notable safety benefits and could make many intersections MORE dangerous.

@nyc-dot.bsky.social studied it and the results even surprised us. Here are the facts:

Some thoughts on the NYC City Council universal daylighting bill... 🧵

Don’t disagree that on-site charging offers promise, but it is costly - like everything DOT does - and requires underground utility work

Exclusive | NYC traffic deaths plummet in first quarter of 2025, city data shows Traffic-related deaths have plummeted in the Big Apple during the first quarter of the year, new city data released Wednesday shows.

Encouraging news: Traffic deaths in New York City reached historic lows during the first quarter of 2025 and injuries also sharply declined.

Declines include every category of road user.

Vision Zero works, but there’s more to do because one death is one too many.

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And as a kid from Appalachia, this includes engaging rural America.

As funny as he is, we need to stop Jordan Klepper-ing. Don’t mock small town America, don’t belittle people and treat them like they’re dumb. It makes us come off as elitists.

Hear people, understand them, welcome them in.

Dems should focus on bread and butter economic issues. It’s how FDR cemented Democratic majorities for generations (Dems controlled the House for 58 of the next 62 years after his election!!)

Build coalitions that get you to 270, 51, and 218. You can’t change anything if you can’t win majorities

a journey of 1,336 pages begins with a single sentence

Power Broker sighting on the train. God speed, sir!

NYC streets and open spaces see more safety and accessibility in 2024: DOT NYC streets and open spaces have achieved record-breaking safety and accessibility improvements in recent years, officials say.

“NYC streets, sidewalks and open spaces have achieved record-breaking safety and accessibility improvements in recent years”

There’s so much to celebrate and the work continues!

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The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas Chad Kassem is on a mission — saving listeners “from bad sound” — at the rural factory where he pores over LPs from some of music’s most important artists.

I love this story that captures what makes vinyl so special.

The best sound in an age of compressed digital

Enjoying a full album as intended in an age of shuffle

A physical connection to music in a digital age

Supporting artists who make peanuts off streaming

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For Once, Good News About the B.Q.E. Fewer overweight trucks are heading toward Queens, the Department of Transportation found, thanks to hidden sensors.

Overweight trucks on the BQE declined 60% after @nyc-dot.bsky.social began using weight sensors to nab violators. A game changer for protecting aging infrastructure.

Commish Rodriguez is in Albany today pushing for renewal & statewide expansion of law permitting use

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Screengrab of NY Post headline: Car-hating NYC bureaucrats quietly making congestion worse with plan to cut vehicle lanes

There are so many demonstrably untrue claims in this Post story about our Sixth Avenue project. Let’s go over each one.

Happy 3-1 to all who celebrate