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Trottenberg: DOT Skipped Its Legally-Required Data Report Last Year

1:32 PM EDT on April 30, 2015

DOT is almost six months past due on a report card required by city law that measures whether the city is meeting its goals of reducing car use, improving safety, and shifting trips to walking, bicycling, and transit. Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg says her department is skipping a year and will instead issue a report covering two years of data in the fall.

DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. Photo: NYC DOT
DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. Photo: NYC DOT
DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. Photo: NYC DOT

A city law passed in 2008, known as Local Law 23, requires DOT to issue an annual report measuring citywide data on car and truck volumes, traffic speed, bus ridership, bicycle and pedestrian crashes, and more. The report is due each November, covering data from the previous calendar year. After years of issuing the report later and later (but still on time) as the "Sustainable Streets Index," DOT is now almost six months past due in releasing the numbers from 2013. The latest available information is from 2012.

The de Blasio administration has issued other transportation-related reports, including a summary of the first year of Vision Zero. But the report didn't include many of the metrics required by Local Law 23, and failed to analyze the safety impacts of city programs like speed cameras or improved tracking of city-owned vehicles.

DOT will release an updated version of the Sustainable Streets Index "towards the end of this year," probably in the next six months, Trottenberg said this morning, after an event hosted by the General Contractors Association of New York.

"We’ve come in and taken a fresh look at it," Trottenberg said. "It’s going to be two years of data. [We’re going to] try and get ourselves caught back up and retool it and look at some fresh indicators... We’re going to keep some of the indicators, but we’re going to add some of the things that are now more of a focus of this administration."

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