Transportation
De Blasio's 'Vision Zero' Plan Could Set a New Standard for Traffic Safety
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to eliminate pedestrian deaths.
Just two weeks after his inauguration, New York mayor Bill de Blasio did something safe street advocates have been demanding for years. The mayor outlined comprehensive changes in the city's approach to traffic fatalities, treating the issue as "a public health problem" and ordering city government branches to pull together to reduce those deaths to zero.
De Blasio held a press conference announcing implementation of his "Vision Zero" plan in the schoolyard of P.S. 152 in Queens. It's where eight-year-old Noshat Nahian was headed last month when he was struck and killed by the driver of an 18-wheeler. The driver had a history of reckless driving and was allegedly operating with a suspended license.