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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Eastern Region 222 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 204 White Plains, NY 10605 Contact: Richard Simon 914-682-6162 Richard.Simon@dot.gov New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety Division of Highway Safety 140 East Front Street Trenton, NJ 08625-0048 Contact: Robert Gaydosh Regional Supervisor, Northern New Jersey 609-633-9022 Robert.gaydosh@lps.state.nj.us New Jersey Transit General Office Building 180 Boyden Avenue Maplewood, New Jersey 07040 Contact: Dale Sulpy Director of Bus Safety DSulpy@njtransit.com New York City Department of City Planning 2 Lafayette Street, Suite 1200 New York City, NY 10007 Contact: Jack Schmidt Kevin Olinger 212-442-4724 212-442-4653 jschmid@planning.nyc.gov kolinge@planning.nyc.gov New York City Department of Parks and Recreation 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 403 New York, NY 10021 Contact: Jennifer Hoppa 212-360-3449 Jennifer.hoppa@parks.nyc.gov NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 122
New York City Department of Transportation 28-11 Queens Plaza North Long Island City, New York 11101 Contact: Gerard Soffian 718-433-3372 gsoffian@dot.nyc.gov New York State Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee 6 Empire State Plaza Swan Street Building, Room 414 Albany New York, 12228 Contact: Jennifer Hogan 518-473-7786 jhoga1@dmv.state.ny.us New York State Department of Transportation 50 Wolf Road Albany, New York 12232 Contact: James Ercolano 518-485-8291 jercolano@dot.state.ny.us New York State Department of Transportation – Region 8 Eleanor Roosevelt State Office Building 4 Burnett Boulevard Poughkeepsie, New York 12603 Contact: James Rapoli 845-431-5750 jrapoli@dot.sate.ny.us New York State Department of Transportation – Region 10 State Office Building 250 Veterans Memorial Highway Hauppauge, NY 11788 Contacts Frank Pierson David Glass 631-952-6020 631-952-6058 fpierson@dot.state.ny.us dglass@dot.state.ny.us NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 123
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New York Metropolitan Transportatio
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1. Report No. 2. Government Accessi
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1
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Table of Figures 2.1 Ten Year Trend
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I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Study Origin an
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in the United States; the 2004 data
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Table 1.1 Organizations That Were I
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II. BACKGROUND ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
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Figure 2.1 Ten Year Trend in Pedest
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Figure 2.3 Historic Trend in Annual
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than fatality rates.) The most noti
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III. ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEDESTRIAN S
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• Updating and creating new stand
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The New York State Metropolitan Pla
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getting input from people who have
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i. 20% of priority crash locations
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located by reference marker (the sm
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that the proper signage and other t
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and funding has been secured to adv
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Westchester County and NYSDOT have
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programs in each borough. The NYCDO
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IV. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUES IN THE
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Drivers: Typical statements about d
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• Ability to lift foot high decre
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The national data indicates that th
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Vendors Vendors set up their carts
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Table 4.1 Continued Staten Island H
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4.4 Existing Infrastructure and Lan
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Some sidewalks are poorly designed
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pedestrian design. At least one per
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Crosswalks need to be more visible.
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V COUNTERMEASURES AND STRATEGIES Th
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timing and street lighting. New Jer
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Providing Sidewalks: Walking-along-
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the pedestrian crash rate was signi
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Speed management through engineerin
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nearby streets. Whereas Bus-pedestr
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and have geometric curvature that e
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Roadway narrowings are used to prov
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Page 99 and 100: 5.3.3 Educating Local Officials and
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Page 103 and 104: VI. FUNDING Funding for pedestrian
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Page 109 and 110: VII. RECOMMENDATIONS As noted in Ch
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Page 115 and 116: REFERENCES American Council of the
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Page 125 and 126: NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Interview f
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Page 129: Appendix B: PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CONTA
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Page 135 and 136: Appendix C: TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD CO
Page 137 and 138: Appendix D: ON LINE PEDESTRIAN SAFE
Page 139 and 140: FARS Query System is an interactive
Page 141 and 142: Education and Enforcement Counterme
Page 143 and 144: Appendix E: NEW YORK CITY FATATLIES
Page 145 and 146: Appendix F: Prompt Lists for Pedest
Page 147 and 148: Pedestrian Safety Prompt List Gener
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