Outside City Hall on Wednesday, advocates read the names of people killed on city streets.<\/p>\n
And this year, bicycle and e-bike deaths are up 70%. Seventeen riders have been killed so far this year compared with 10 at this point last year, according to city data.<\/p>\n
Now, after four people were killed by hit-and-run drivers in just five days, protesters lay down in City Hall Park to represent the lives lost.<\/p>\n
“I just think of the families. I think of the heartbreak that your loved one is never coming home,” Transportation Alternatives volunteer Chong Bretillon said.<\/p>\n
Paulina Tec Choch, Angelo Camara and Mamadou Diallo were all riding bikes. Destiny Murrel was walking in a crosswalk. In each case, the driver left the scene.<\/p>\n
“What we’re asking for in a comprehensive, systemic plan from City Hall to stop the carnage,” Transportation Alternatives senior director of communication and strategy Alexa Sledge said.<\/p>\n
Advocates credited the Mamdani administration with moving some stalled street safety projects forward, but said they want more protected bike lanes and tougher action against reckless drivers.<\/p>\n
But the broader picture is moving in the opposite direction. The city said overall traffic deaths remained near historic lows through the first half of the year.<\/p>\n
The administration points to street redesigns, new and widened protected bike lanes, and an expanding network of automated enforcement cameras.<\/p>\n
“I support any initiative that we have to reduce the number of crashes around the city and to ensure there is no longer a hierarchy of safety based on what mode of transit you’re using,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday.<\/p>\n
For advocates, the measure of any new plan is whether another name has to be added to the list.<\/p>\n
“No matter what bike you’re choosing, as long as it’s a safe and legal bike, you should be able to get to where you’re going safely, legally and alive,” Sledge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside City Hall on Wednesday, advocates read the names of people killed on city streets. And this year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,1084,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27,296],"class_list":["post-330708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}