Nearly 5,000 people were injured and 20 were killed in traffic violence in NY-7 over the past twelve months. Four children have died at intersections in a City Council district since 2023. The federal government has funded a transportation system built around cars, with most surface transportation funding going to highways and far less to public transportation. Federal design guidelines used to distribute federal dollars focus on cars rather than safety for people walking, biking, and riding transit. A proposed congressional plan includes restoring Safe Streets funding, protecting transit investment gains, and requiring federal street design that prevents deaths and injuries.
"Just after dismissal on the last day of school, Jael Zhinin was walking her younger sister home when a turning truck struck them both. The older girl was killed. The younger sustained injuries that will follow her the rest of her life. This story is not an outlier. In NY-7, nearly 5,000 people were injured and 20 were killed in traffic violence in the past twelve months alone. Four children have died at intersections in my City Council district since 2023."
"I have spent four years fighting for safer streets in this district. In Congress, I will restore Safe Streets funding the Trump administration has gutted, fight to hold transit investment gains set to expire this year, and force the federal government to design streets that won't kill us. 'Accidents' are the result of national car-centered policy decisions"
"The federal government has spent decades funding a transportation system designed around cars. 80 percent of federal surface transportation funding goes to highways, while the crumbs go to public transportation. In a city where 66 percent of NY-7 commuters get to work by bus or subway, the majority of our public funds are spent on car infrastructure that most of us never use."
"The inequity goes beyond just funding. Federal design guidelines - the rulebook local governments must follow to receive federal dollars - were written with a central focus on cars. They were not written through the lens of"
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