>"New York's transportation officials and safety advocates say the experience of the largest U.S. city offers a road map for others." This is all very self-con

>"New York's transportation officials and safety advocates say the experience of the largest U.S. city offers a road map for others." This is all very self-congratulatory and likely a PR piece that was put out on the news wire. I imagine that the reduction in fatalities is almost exclusively due to the changes around pedestrian crossings on Queens Blvd. a horrid monstrosity that more closely resembles a highway than any kind of regular street. It is actually rare to see police pulling over cars and issuing traffic tickets in NYC. And if anything as the congestion has worsened drivers have gotten more brazen. Cars regularly block the intersection, run red lights rather than stop, regularly block the cross walk and regularly fail to yield to pedestrians in cross walks. In fact these are the norm. Spend 5 to 10 minutes walking during rush hour you are pretty much guaranteed to observe all of these in the short time frame. NYC is a road map for what a dysfunctional to non-existent traffic policy looks like.