New York to Invest $110 Million in Pedestrian Safety

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Over half of the 4,303 fatal and injury crashes in Upstate New York and Long Island between 2011 and 2015 occurred at an intersection.

In June 2016, New York (18.8% Latino) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the New York State Departments of Transportation and Health teamed up with the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee to provide $110 million over the next five years to improve pedestrian safety across Upstate New York and Long Island through engineering improvements, education efforts, and an enforcement campaign based on the Three E’s of Safety-Engineering, Enforcement, and Education.

Examples of engineering improvements include: narrowing of traffic lanes, new and widened sidewalk connections, intersection improvement projects, adding crosswalks, improving lighting and visibility, improving pedestrian, bicycle, and traffic signage, adding pedestrian refuge islands and curb extensions, and re-timing traffic signals.

In order for residents to walk and bike more, they need infrastructure that keeps them safe. Vision Zero policies, for example, put people first in our vehicle-dominant society.

Improving safety can have a drastic impact on resident’s physical activity levels, thus health, particularly for Latinos who tend to live in neighborhoods that lack safe infrastructure.

Learn more about New York’s efforts to improve pedestrian safety here.

Visit the New York State Pedestrian Safety Action Plan website here.

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