"Miraculously, DOT staffers still delivered a slate of transformative projects, including 31st Avenue in Astoria, Court Street in Cobble Hill, Berry Street in Williamsburg and Third Avenue on Manhattan's East Side. During his reign of agony and terror, Adams sandbagged one of DOT's most important capacities: the enthusiasm to explain why it pursued those projects in the first place, and the ability to inform New Yorkers, in clear and honest terms, about what exactly happens on the city's streets. DOT lost its own voice."
"When I served as DOT's policy director, under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the department published a number of reports that tried to explain what DOT did and why. These include World Class Streets, about the city's underdeveloped public realm; the Pedestrian Safety Study & Action Plan, a detailed examination of crash reports; the annual Sustainable Streets Index, which reported travel mode trends; the self-explanatory Economic Benefits of Sustainable Streets; and quite a few more studies and reports."
Eric Adams' tenure at the New York City Department of Transportation was marked by mismanagement, sabotage, and understaffing that diminished the agency's capacity to analyze, explain, and publicly communicate its work. DOT staff nonetheless delivered transformative projects across boroughs. Under Michael Bloomberg, DOT produced analytical reports such as World Class Streets, the Pedestrian Safety Study & Action Plan, the Sustainable Streets Index, and Economic Benefits of Sustainable Streets that explained objectives and data. Under Adams, reporting narrowed to sober activity summaries with rare exceptions. Ydanis Rodríguez's Equity and Street Safety parsed existing data but omitted discussion of persistent problems and remedies. De Blasio's DOT also produced sparse safety analyses.
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