{"id":362910,"date":"2026-10-02T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:22:08","slug":"new-york-city-has-new-street-safety-plan-to-reduce-pedestrian-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362910\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City has new street safety plan to reduce pedestrian deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/09\/15\/nation\/mamdani-unveils-street-safety-plan-move-curb-pedestrian-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">street safety plan to reduce pedestrian deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, Vision Zero Reimagined, consists of more than 100 policy goals for the next decade that address the rapidly changing mix of cars, trucks, bikes, and electric devices on city streets and bike lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Near-term goals include:<br \/>\nReducing the speed limit to 15 m.p.h. near hundreds more schools<br \/>\nAdding barriers and other infrastructure to 1,000 intersections a year<br \/>\nAdding new safety features to thousands of city-owned vehicles, including audible alerts on trucks and enhanced emergency brake systems<br \/>\nExploring higher tolls for oversized passenger vehicles<br \/>\nInstalling speed-capping devices in cars caught speeding repeatedly in school zones<\/p>\n<p>The 105-page plan also supports creating pedestrian-only districts, but it does not include locations.<\/p>\n<p>It also seeks to crack down on drivers who use \u201cghost plates\u201d on their cars to obscure their identity, but that would require action from the state legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently released a street safety plan to reduce pedestrian deaths. The plan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-362910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362910","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=362910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}