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Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg told the City Council there's only so much DOT can do to prevent drivers from hitting people while turning, but there's a relatively simple safety measure the agency could put to widespread use: keeping parked cars away from intersections.

DOT will be ramping up the use of intersection treatments to protect pedestrians and cyclists from left-turning drivers, the agency announced today. The initiative is paired with a DOT study, "Don't Cut Corners" [PDF], that illustrates the disproportionate danger of left turns. Mayor de Blasio had announced in January that reducing the risk of left turns would be a focus of his administration's Vision Zero agenda this year.

Delhi, home to over 12 million people and the seat of India's national government, is widely considered to have the most dangerous traffic in the world. As the Guardian wrote recently, traffic safety in Delhi basically consists of "good horns, good brakes, good luck." Nationally, crashes in India killed more than 130,000 people -- 85 percent of whom were pedestrians and cyclists -- in 2007 alone.

The longtime critic of street safety measures demanded action — but her proposed solution, speed bumps, wouldn't make much of a difference.

Another death, another post-mortem fix by the DOT.

"We are ... keeping New Yorkers safe on our streets ... by improving road safety at hundreds of targeted traffic intersections," Adams said on Thursday.

The answer to the sinkhole greenway is right there: taking a lane from the Henry Hudson Parkway.

No surprise: In just the 22 months since January 2023, there have been 70 reported crashes on the single block of Tillary Street between Jay and Adams streets

Car owners turned out in droves in response to false rumors spread on the internet that DOT planned to eliminate every parking spot in the neighborhood.

As thousands of guards returned to street corners across the city last week for the reopening of public schools, records obtained by Streetsblog reveal the dangers that guards face on the job.