I wrote re: help with illegal planters
Dear Suzannah Troy
Thank you for your recent message and your kind words of support for the work of the Department of Transportation. DOT has made tremendous strides to make New York City’s transportation network safer and easier to travel for all users, whether pedestrians, motorists, ferry riders or bicyclists.
We have implemented many new programs to improve traffic safety, and traffic fatalities on city streets have reached historic lows. We have encouraged the growing use of bicycles by New Yorkers, doubling the citywide on-street bike network while reshaping the city’s streets to make them safer for everyone who uses them. We have addressed the damage done to the city’s streets by severe winter weather by filling more than 2.6 million potholes since 2002. We continue to maintain the city’s transportation infrastructure, including roadways, bridges, street lights and traffic signals.
We have undertaken several recent initiatives to improve traffic safety, including the creation of Neighborhood Slow Zones, a community-based program that reduces the speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph. DOT creates Slow Zones in response to applications from communities. We created skeleton speed boards, which display an LED image of a skeleton next to the words “Slow Down” if a passing motorist exceeds the speed limit. Our “Curbside Haiku” safety education campaign installed signs featuring colorful artwork and haikus at a dozen high-crash locations near cultural institutions and schools citywide to draw attention to the critical importance of shared responsibility among all street users to help keep New York City’s streets as safe as they can be.
Most recently, we launched the “Heads Up” street safety ad campaign, which spotlights unsafe behavior and reminds cyclists and pedestrians to stay alert and obey the rules of the road to keep themselves and others safe. Each of the ads delivers a specific safety message with catchy phrasing and calls on New Yorkers to “Know the code/share the road.” The new ads can be viewed athttp://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/safety/heads_up.shtml. The “Heads Up” ads appear on more than 300 bus shelters and dozens of other eye-catching sites including newsstands and storefronts citywide. The ads also appear on coffee cup sleeves at delis and coffee shops around the city.
These achievements are the result of a team effort undertaken by many dedicated professionals who work here at DOT. All of us are pleased to know that you support our efforts.
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