The roots of traffic safety advocacy in New York City

WNYC News | Jan 15, 2024

In the 1990s, street safety activists in New York City used non-violent direct action to bring attention to the amount of pedestrians and cyclists killed in traffic. By 2014, the city government would implement Vision Zero, a wide reaching plan to get traffic deaths and serious injuries down to zero. 

Charles Komanoff, a central figure in that movement in the 90s and the former head of the street safety group Transportation Alternatives, spoke about it WNYC's Morning Edition host Michael Hill. 

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