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About This Plan This strategic pedestrian safety plan for Queens is one of five borough-level plans created to advance the goals laid out in the 2014 Vision Zero Action Plan Beginning with a borough wide community dialogue and input process, DOT and NYPD worked with community members to identify local pedestrian safety issues. By re-engineering these high-crash streets and intersections, employing strategic enforcement practices, and stepping up education efforts, DOT and NYPD can effectively change the way we perceive city streets and deter the most dangerous behaviors, such as speeding and failure to yield to pedestrians. This Queens Pedestrian Safety Action Plan is one of a set of five documents, each of which analyzes the unique conditions of one New York City borough and recommends actions to address the borough’s specific challenges to pedestrian safety. This plan pinpoints the conditions and characteristics of Queens’ pedestrian fatalities and severe injuries; it also identifies corridors, intersections, and areas that disproportionately account for Queens’ pedestrian fatalities and severe injuries and strategically prioritizes them for safety interventions. Finally, the Queens Pedestrian Safety Action Plan recommends a series of actions to alter the physical and behavioral conditions on Queens’ streets that lead to pedestrian fatality and injury. A Five Borough Approach In each borough, heat maps were created to highlight locations with the highest density of pedestrian fatalities and severe injuries. These maps were then used to create borough Priority Maps. Both maps were built on borough crash data, rather than citywide data. Since each borough has a different overall number and density of pedestrian crashes, each borough map is drawn at a different scale. For example, the “red” we observe in the Staten Island maps represents far fewer crashes than the “red” in the Manhattan maps. DOT and NYPD are tasked with addressing road safety for all residents in all boroughs, so creating five separate action plans was the most practical way to develop a robust set of focused, effective actions for each borough. viii Queens Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
Case Studies Three case studies have been selected to represent particular communities that are identified as pedestrian safety priority locations in Queens. The case studies enable a more localized look at data, issues, and recommendations that may be difficult to contextualize on a borough-wide level. These case studies are located throughout this plan. The locations (shown in the map below) are: • Downtown Flushing • Hillside Ave Corridor • Jackson Heights-Corona The case studies also explore location-specific comments received from community members via the Vision Zero Public Input Map and Pedestrian Safety Workshops. Astoria Park JACKSON HEIGHTS- CORONA DOWNTOWN FLUSHING Flushing Meadows Corona Park Kissena Park Alley Pond Park Cunningham Park Evergreen Cemetery Highland Park Forest Park HILLSIDE AVE CORRIDOR NASSAU COUNTY Idlewild Park Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Rockaway Community Park Case Study Areas Priority Areas Fort Tilden Breezy Point Tip Queens Pedestrian Safety Action Plan ix
Page 1 and 2: Pedestrian Safety Action Plan PROFI
Page 3: Table of Contents i iii iv vi viii
Page 7 and 8: Letter from the Commissioners Dear
Page 9 and 10: Community Dialogue and Input • 2,
Page 11: Most pedestrian and cyclist fatalit
Page 15 and 16: PROFILE 1. Queens, the largest of t
Page 17 and 18: PROFILE Pedestrian Fatalities, 2011
Page 19 and 20: Queens Heat Map and Pedestrian Fata
Page 21 and 22: PROFILE Who? Seniors make up 13% of
Page 23 and 24: PROFILE How? Dangerous Driver Choic
Page 25 and 26: Bowne Park Community Input Not Enou
Page 27 and 28: Downtown Flushing Total injuries de
Page 29 and 30: PRIORITIES 2. Queens claims the lar
Page 31 and 32: PRIORITIES Queens Pedestrian Safety
Page 33 and 34: PRIORITIES Queens Pedestrian Safety
Page 35 and 36: Queens Priority Map Priority Corrid
Page 37 and 38: The Queens area with the highest in
Page 39 and 40: Safe PROFILE Routes to School, Hill
Page 41 and 42: DIALOGUE & INPUT 3. Achieving Visio
Page 43 and 44: DIALOGUE & INPUT Website Findings A
Page 45 and 46: DIALOGUE & INPUT 130+ Pedestrian Sa
Page 47 and 48: DIALOGUE & INPUT 67% of workshop at
Page 49 and 50: Queens Community Input Map Astoria
Page 51 and 52: 108 ST 111 ST The Queens area with
Page 53 and 54: Broadway and Queens Boulevard Crash
Page 55 and 56: ACTION PLAN 4. Based on the crash f
Page 57 and 58: Queens Priority Map 23 ST 34 AV Ast
Page 59 and 60: ACTION PLAN Install additional ligh
Page 61 and 62: ACTION PLAN Proactively design for
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Enforcement ACTION PLAN The Vision
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REFERENCES American Community Surve
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Appendix A (Cont’d) Queens Priori
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Appendix B (Cont’d) Queens Priori
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