To kick off 2015, we’re launching a new dashboard to track Vision Zero progress in every community board in the borough of Queens. Check it out here.

There are a few key changes from the way were were tracking progress last year. It’s based on the same NYPD data, but we’ve organized results by community board rather than precinct. Also, instead of measuring traffic enforcement and injuries/fatalities as a year-to-date statistic, we’re now tracking it as a rolling 12-month total. At any given point in time, we’re looking at how we’ve done over the past year relative to the total for 2013, the year Mayor de Blasio set as the city’s Vision Zero baseline.

We’re releasing this report without a lot of analysis this month. We published a detailed review of the results for 2014 last month, and will be publishing this new tracker on a monthly basis throughout 2015. Please let us know what you think at MakeQueensSafer (at) gmail.com.

One final note. We see that NYPD has improved the quality of the datasets that it posts on its website. The files now separate crashes on city streets from those that occur on highways. It is also possible to track every crash back to the precinct where it occurred. Thank you, NYPD, for this improvement.