{"id":1017,"date":"2015-04-28T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T04:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2015-04-28T00:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T04:57:26","slug":"tracking-progress-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/2015\/04\/tracking-progress-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Progress: March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tracker-2015-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1019\" src=\"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tracker-2015-03.jpg\" alt=\"Tracker-2015-03\" width=\"911\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tracker-2015-03.jpg 911w, https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tracker-2015-03-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tracker-2015-03-619x497.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Street safety in Queens continues to improve. In the 12 months ending in March 2015, there have been 2,469 pedestrians injured in Queens by motor vehicles, a decline of 12% from the Vision Zero benchmark year, 2013. In the same time, there have been 795 injuries to cyclists, a reduction of 4% since 2013. Overall, including motor vehicle occupants, there have been 14,708 people injured in motor vehicle crashes in Queens over the past year, down 5% since 2013. Citiwide, there has been a 9% reduction in injuries.<\/p>\n<p>There were two traffic fatalities on Queens streets in March. This is the lowest total since April 2013. The two fatalities were Robert Walker, who died when his car struck a median on the Belt Parkway in Jamaica; and an 80-year-old woman who was struck while crossing Astoria Boulevard in Jackson Heights. In the 12 months ending March 2015, overall traffic fatalities in Queens are are down 9% from 2013. Citywide, there has been a 16% decline in fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>In many precincts across the borough, the NYPD stepped up enforcement actions against drivers running red lights, and continued last month&#8217;s trend of stronger enforecement actions against failing to yield right of way to pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tracker-2015-03.pdf\">See our full report here, including results by borough and community board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street safety in Queens continues to improve. In the 12 months ending in March 2015, there have been 2,469 pedestrians injured in Queens by motor vehicles, a decline of 12% from the Vision Zero benchmark year, 2013. In the same time, there have been 795 injuries to cyclists, a reduction of 4% since 2013. Overall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}