{"id":606,"date":"2020-03-09T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?post_type=studies&p=12394"},"modified":"2020-03-09T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:01:34","slug":"traffic-fatalities-rose-250-in-south-ozone-park-queens-uws-saw-3-more-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/research\/traffic-fatalities-rose-250-in-south-ozone-park-queens-uws-saw-3-more-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Fatalities Rose 250% in South Ozone Park, UWS Saw 3 More Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard, the U.S. is the only country that refused to sign the Stockholm Declaration<\/a>, an agreement pledging to eliminate traffic deaths by 2050. While we respect the administration’s decision and know that road safety shares its utmost priority on the agenda, we cannot deny the cost we have to pay in exchange for mobility. Traffic fatalities have generally gone down in major global cities and even decreased to zero in places like Helsinki and Oslo, but that, sadly, is not the case in the U.S.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the country as a whole saw more pedestrian and cyclist deaths even though the total number of traffic fatalities was in decline, and such trend did not spare New York City, which prides itself in fighting for traffic safety. For the first time in six years, the number of traffic deaths rose since Mayor de Blasio took office and launched the Vision Zero program, with the number of cyclists and pedestrians killed almost tripled. Indeed, progress is not always linear, and we should not be discouraged. However, this reiterates the importance of adding bike lanes, expanding sidewalks lowering speed limits, and redesigning certain street intersections.<\/p>\n

To help generate awareness on traffic fatalities, we at RentHop took a look at the motor vehicle collisions data in the past year, and here’s what we’ve found:<\/strong><\/p>\n