The Department of Transportation strives to improve vehicular and pedestrian safety throughout the city. This study includes comprehensive traffic analyses of the study areas of Staten Island, as well as the improvements implemented to enhance safety.
The purpose of this study is to assess existing and future traffic conditions, identify issues, and develop effective solutions to these issues in the study area. The study area is located in the northest section of Brooklyn, bounded by Atlantic Ave to the north, Mother Gaston Ave to the east, Pitkin Ave to the south, and Howard Ave to the west.
The Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Study is an effort to mitigate the traffic impacts
that have taken place in Downtown Brooklyn over the past twenty plus years as the area has enjoyed a revitalization
that has brought economic growth to this collection of dense, diverse urban neighborhoods. The project's goal is to
make all types of streets function better for all users of the public space and to ensure the area's ongoing vitality,
safety, accessibility, and mobility.
The Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Study is an effort to mitigate the traffic impacts
that have taken place in Downtown Brooklyn over the past twenty plus years as the area has enjoyed a revitalization
that has brought economic growth to this collection of dense, diverse urban neighborhoods. The project's goal is to
make all types of streets function better for all users of the public space and to ensure the area's ongoing vitality,
safety, accessibility, and mobility.
The Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Parks and Recreation, Transportation, and Police released a joint report describing the factors that contributed to the deaths and serious injuries of bicyclists over the past decade.
The Ridgewood Transportation Planning Study area is located on the Brooklyn/Queens border. The goal of this study is to assess existing and future traffic and transportation conditions, identify any problems and generate recommendations to develop a package of improvement measures to accommodate future transportation needs. This part details the land use and zoning research conducted for the study.
In 2013, DOT collected on-street parking occupancy, turnover, and vehicle registration location data around the Barclays Center during event and non-event days.
This report focuses on how smart and innovative street design can dramatically improve the safety of our streets. The results reported here are based on ?before and after? comparisons of crash data for projects implemented in the last seven years. This analysis is the largest examination of the safety effects of innovative roadway engineering conducted in a major American city or perhaps any city globally.
This report introduces a robust new metric for assessing the local economic impacts of street improvements. DOT examined changes in sales tax receipts in areas around improvements, finding convincing evidence that the improved accessibility and more welcoming street environment created by these projects led to increased retail sales.
In the Spring of 2008, DOT released Sustainable Streets, its new strategic plan, which laid out, for the first time ever, a clear and detailed transportation policy for New York City that promised a new direction. DOT is delivering on the promises of its plan. This annual update of the plan reports on that progress, and serves as a focal point for meeting targets and sustaining momentum across all of our Agency?s programs. It also sets forth new goals that have emerged during the past year.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) operates the largest municipal street-lighting system in the country, with 300,000 lights on city streets, bridges, parks and highways. The DOT is partnering with the United States Department of Energy and the Climate Group to develop a LED pilot program for new technologies that will reduce the City's greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency. The DOT will test this LED lighting on both streets and sidewalks in Central Park and along the FDR Drive. This report provides more background on the project.
The Department of Transportation released a report on the pilot project to further limit the number of hours that motor vehicles can utilize the park drives of both Central Park and Prospect Park. The goal of this project was to minimize potential conflicts between vehicles and pedestrians in the parks and to provide additional space for recreation.
The Ridgewood Transportation Planning Study area is located on the Brooklyn/Queens border. The goal of this study is to assess existing and future traffic and transportation conditions, identify any problems and generate recommendations to develop a package of improvement measures to accommodate future transportation needs. This part introduces and summarizes the study, as well as details the demographic analysis conducted for the study.
The Ridgewood Transportation Planning Study area is located on the Brooklyn/Queens border. The goal of this study is to assess existing and future traffic and transportation conditions, identify any problems and generate recommendations to develop a package of improvement measures to accommodate future transportation needs. This part details the traffic and transportation research conducted for the study.
The Ridgewood Transportation Planning Study area is located on the Brooklyn/Queens border. The goal of this study is to assess existing and future traffic and transportation conditions, identify any problems and generate recommendations to develop a package of improvement measures to accommodate future transportation needs. This part details the conclusions made from the study.
Select Bus Service, New York City?s brand of bus rapid transit, offers fast, frequent and reliable bus service on high-ridership bus routes, forming a citywide bus rapid transit network. The Department of Transportation in partnership with the MTA will have implemented a total of seven new SBS services by Spring 2014. This report profiles each of the SBS projects implemented to date, the benefits that SBS has brought to these communities, and plans for Phase II.
Sustainable Streets: 2013 and Beyond charts DOT's progress in making streets safer, improving mobility, and maintaining and enhancing infrastructure since 2007. The report reflects on previous strategic and other planning documents produced by DOT, and explains projects, programs, and data analysis that have contributed to a decline in citywide traffic fatalities, faster bus service, improvements in bridge conditions, and creation of new public space.
Sustainable Streets is a strategic plan for the New York City Department of Transportation that focuses on bringing a green approach to transportation that will simultaneously ease travel conditions in the growing City while squarely facing the problem of climate change and improving the city's quality of life.
Green Light for Midtown created new pedestrian areas on Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square. DOT collected extensive data on travel times, traffic volumes, pedestrian volumes and traffic accidents in the months just prior and just following project implementation. Findings show that travel speeds have improved throughout West Midtown, and safety has also been vastly improved as a result of this project.
The Ridgewood Transportation Planning Study area is located on the Brooklyn/Queens border. The goal of this study is to assess existing and future traffic and transportation conditions, identify any problems and generate recommendations to develop a package of improvement measures to accommodate future transportation needs. This part details the public transportation and parking research conducted for the study.
The Ridgewood Transportation Planning Study area is located on the Brooklyn/Queens border. The goal of this study is to assess existing and future traffic and transportation conditions, identify any problems and generate recommendations to develop a package of improvement measures to accommodate future transportation needs. This part details the pedestrian and bicycle analysis and accidents/safety analysis conducted for the study.
Pursuant to Ad. Code 19-101.3, a report on a project converting two moving lanes to one lane, where feasible, with wide parking lanes and changes in signal timing, after DOT recieved a request to implement safety measures on Classon Ave.
The purpose of this project is to address senior pedestrian safety issues in the Yorkville study area as part of the Department's Safe Streets for Seniors (SSS) Program.
Pursuant to Ad Code 19-101.3, a report on the 63rd Road project which sought to slow speeding drivers through the Rego Park Senior Pedestrian Focus Area, where there had been six pedestrian fataliaties since 2001.
Pursuant to Ad. Code 19-101.3, a report on implementing safety measures after DOT recieved requests from Bronx Community Board 3 and the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation for improvements along the corridors of Louis Nine Blvd, Intervale Ave, and Freeman Streets in the Bronx.
The Sustainable Streets Index provides data on recent trends in traffic, parking, travel and safety. It also includes a section on "project indicators", an assessment of 12 major DOT projects completed by the end of 2008. This assessment covers the impacts on safety, usage for motor vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, bus riders and/or travel times in the project areas.
Pursuant to Ad. Code 19-101.3, a report on redesign at Bartown Avenue & Baychester Avenue in the Bronx that accommodated the traffic and improved mobility and safety for all users.
Pursuant to Ad. Code 19-101.3, a report on enhancements on First Avenue between E 61st St and 72nd St, which included a new bicycle path, pedestrian safety islands, and mixing zones for turning vehicles.
The Department has accelerated its efforts to improve pedestrian and traffic safety at locations that have repeatedly been the site of traffic or pedestrian-related accidents. These efforts have sharply reduced the number of traffic-related accidents and fatalities, which are now at historic lows.
The Department has accelerated its efforts to improve pedestrian and traffic safety at locations that have repeatedly been the site of traffic or pedestrian-related accidents. These efforts have sharply reduced the number of traffic-related accidents and fatalities, which are now at historic lows.
The Department has accelerated its efforts to improve pedestrian and traffic safety at locations that have repeatedly been the site of traffic or pedestrian-related accidents. These efforts have sharply reduced the number of traffic-related accidents and fatalities, which are now at historic lows.
The Department has accelerated its efforts to improve pedestrian and traffic safety at locations that have repeatedly been the site of traffic or pedestrian-related accidents. These efforts have sharply reduced the number of traffic-related accidents and fatalities, which are now at historic lows.
NYCDOT's Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) are devices affixed to pedestrian signal poles to assist blind or low vision pedestrians in crossing the street. As required by law, DOT issues an annual report on the status of the APS program.
NYCDOT held a public workshop to determine community needs and solicit specific input regarding pedestrian safety improvements in the Lincoln Center Bow Tie area. The information gathered at this meeting was directly used to develop pedestrian safety improvements which were presented to the local community board in December 2014. DOT will continue to refine this proposal and return in early 2015 with a final set of recommendations.
This report, in response to Local Law 11, addresses DOT's ongoing commitment to improve safety at high pedestrian crash locations. The law requires DOT to identify the twenty highest crash locations based upon a ranking of the total number of crashes involving pedestrians. The number of locations in each borough is based on the proportion of citywide pedestrian injuries by borough. Safety improvements have been recently implemented at all, with additional improvements.
In response to community requests for bicycle and pedestrian improvements on the Pulaski Bridge, DOT proposes building a new bicycle path on the bridge adjacent to the existing shared path. The design includes a new barrier to protect bicyclists from motor vehicles. This proposed path would double the space on the bridge dedicated to bicyclists and pedestrians, enhance safety by separating those two modes and improve access to Long Island City subway stations for Brooklyn residents.
Over 32,000 people ride buses daily on 125th Street, 9,700 on the M60, making it the busiest bus route on 125th Street. MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) upgraded the M60 to Select Bus Service, featuring off-board fare payment, dedicated bus lanes, limited stops and transit signal priority in Manhattan. The M60 Select Bus Service launched on Sunday, May 25, 2014, with dedicated bus lanes on 125th Street from Lenox Avenue to Second Avenue.
The Utica Avenue B46 bus corridor extends eight miles across Brooklyn carrying almost 50,000 passengers a day, making it the second busiest bus route in New York City. To enhance bus service and to improve safety, the New York City Department of Transportation will implement a series of phased improvements to the corridor. The implementation plan is the result of the Utica Avenue Bus Priority and Safety Improvement Study conducted between 2011 and 2013 and extensive input from community boards, local merchants, residents, and transit riders.
Currently, M101, M102, and M103 buses do not stop between 55th Street and 61st Street, yet 57th Street is a major destination. Right-turn lanes for Queensboro Bridge-bound traffic between 57th Street and 59th Street preclude buses from accessing the curb for a conventional bus stop. Additionally, 57th Street is a high-crash intersection for pedestrians. To address these issues, DOT plans to install a bus boarding island between 56th Street and 57th Street providing a new bus stop at 57th Street. The project will also make pedestrian safety improvements including the elimination of left-turn/pedestrian conflicts, increased pedestrian crossing time, and added protected crossing time for pedestrians.
The Manhattan neighborhood of Hudson Heights applied for a Neighborhood Slow Zones in May, 2013. The application was accepted due to the proposed zone's high frequency of crashes and injuries, strong natural boundaries and the presence of multiple schools in the area. The proposed treatments will lower the speed limit to 20 mph within the zone, improving safety for all roadway users, reducing traffic noise and cut-through traffic, and enhancing the social quality of the streets.
Since 1948, DOT has monitored traffic flow on 47 bridges operated by the City of New York. This report summarizes vehicular volumes, classification data, and trends for the 47 bridges that cross over water, as well as the nine bridges and tunnels operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the six bridges and tunnels operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
This report, published annually by DOT since 1972, presents vehicular volumes, classification, and trends for all bridge and tunnel facilities serving Manhattan.
The M86 bus corridor was identified as a potential candidate for Select Bus Service. Characterized by slow and crowded trips, the corridor was ranked by the community as one of four corridors most in need of bus improvements. The M86 crosstown bus carries over 25,000 passengers per day, making it the second busiest crosstown bus route and the most crowded bus per mile in New York City. The M86 connects 12 bus routes including the M15SBS, M101, and M4, and crucial connections to the 1, 4, 5, 6, B, and C trains.
As part of the 2004 Holiday Traffic Plan, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Parks and Recreation implemented an ambitious program to improve the overall usability of the Central Park Drives. It was intended to facilitate efficient and safe movement of motorists and pedestrians. The Department of Transportation closely monitored the impacts of this initiative to determine the impacts.