Cast Your Vote for the 2014 Streetsies — Then Give to Streetsblog
With the end of the year approaching, it’s time to take stock. How did New York City make progress toward safer, more livable streets in 2014? Where did NYC DOT really nail a great street redesign? Who’s still lagging behind on Vision Zero? Who was the most clownish oaf on Twitter?
You decide how to apportion reverence and scorn in the people’s choice categories of our annual Streetsie Awards. The polls in NYC are open until midnight on Saturday, December 27. (For more people’s choice action, head over to the Streetsblog USA Streetsies.)
2014 was a year of transition, with a new mayor, new people leading key city departments, and new rubrics to frame City Hall’s streets and transportation agenda. We saw both tremendous legislative accomplishments and frustratingly uneven implementation of Vision Zero policy. With about 250 people losing their lives to traffic violence so far this year, New York will have to do better in 2015.
Creating a city of safe streets with effective transit is a long-term, politically challenging project, and there’s always the risk that elected officials will shrink from the task. Streetsblog is here to hold their feet to the fire. We need your support to keep City Hall, NYPD, and DOT accountable to their Vision Zero goals, and to bang the drum for street safety to be a high priority in Albany, district attorneys’ offices, and community boards. Your donations enable us to do that.
Make a tax-deductible contribution to Streetsblog before the end of the year and you’ll also be eligible to win this beautiful PUBLIC R16 bike:
Okay, now enjoy the voting. We’ll run the results next week and will resume our normal publishing schedule on January 2.
Best Livable Streets Victory
- Enactment of citywide 25 mph speed limit (52%, 137 Votes)
- City Hall releases the Vision Zero Action Plan, creating a template for city agencies to collaborate on the elimination of traffic deaths (27%, 70 Votes)
- New ownership takes over Citi Bike, promising more effective management and to double the size of the system (21%, 55 Votes)
Total Voters: 261
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Best Pedestrian Safety Project
- Bigger ped islands at Sixth Avenue and Houston Street (43%, 75 Votes)
- Morningside Avenue road diet (21%, 37 Votes)
- Northern Boulevard pedestrian islands (19%, 34 Votes)
- Mega pedestrian island at Bushwick Avenue and Seigel Street (9%, 16 Votes)
- Making Edward L Grant Highway less like a highway (8%, 14 Votes)
Total Voters: 176
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Best Bike Lane Project
- Lafayette Street protected bike lane (32%, 60 Votes)
- Kent Avenue South bike lane upgrades (32%, 59 Votes)
- 37th Street connection to East River Greenway (21%, 39 Votes)
- Hudson Street protected bike lane (15%, 27 Votes)
Total Voters: 185
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Best Sign That Things Can Actually Change at NYPD
- Tickets for failure-to-yield to pedestrians increase substantially (51%, 115 Votes)
- 78th Precinct starts up monthly meetings about street safety (27%, 60 Votes)
- First precinct cop issues citation for breaking the city's new Right of Way law (23%, 51 Votes)
Total Voters: 226
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You Give "Vision Zero" a Bad Name
- "Operation Safe Cycle" (45%, 104 Votes)
- Jaywalking tickets for senior citizens (28%, 66 Votes)
- The MTA's "don't get hit by a bus, you idiot" PSAs (27%, 63 Votes)
Total Voters: 233
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The Andrew Cuomo Muscle Car Award
- Trying to spend $500 million in clean water funds on a gigantic highway bridge (59%, 129 Votes)
- Budgeting for annual transit raids until 2031 (22%, 48 Votes)
- Cutting tolls on the Verrazano to rack up more Staten Island votes (14%, 30 Votes)
- Releasing the MTA Reinvention report right before Thanksgiving (5%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 217
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Favorite Streetfilm
- The Metamorphosis of NYC Streets (32%, 49 Votes)
- Zurich: Where People Are Welcome and Cars Are Not (30%, 46 Votes)
- Parking Craters: Scourge of American Downtowns (17%, 26 Votes)
- Lakewood, Ohio: The Suburb Where Everyone Can Walk to School (11%, 17 Votes)
- Buenos Aires: Building a People-Friendly City (10%, 15 Votes)
Total Voters: 153
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Social Media Faux Pas of the Year
- Cy Vance subpoenas Twitter to investigate link between @BicycleLobby parody account and mysterious white flags on Brooklyn Bridge (37%, 89 Votes)
- East Harlem precinct commander responds to a pedestrian death by tweeting taunts at street safety advocates (33%, 80 Votes)
- Diane Savino jokes on Facebook that she likes to tell cyclists "Hey, Find a F—ing Bike Lane and Get in It" (30%, 71 Votes)
Total Voters: 240
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Most Outstanding NYC Sneckdown
- The ones at Columbus Circle (51%, 50 Votes)
- The one at Carmine and Varick (24%, 24 Votes)
- The one at Queens Boulevard and 63rd Road (13%, 13 Votes)
- The one at 157th and Broadway (11%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 98
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Don’t forget to give! Have a great holiday and we’ll see you back here soon.
