Overview
- Transportation Alternatives, Families for Safe Streets, and Open Plans identified 118 intersections with five or more deaths or serious injuries since 2022 and say nearly three million residents live within a half‑mile of those sites.
- Intro. 1138 would ban parking and standing within 20 feet of crosswalks citywide and require hard barriers at 1,000 intersections annually, according to its sponsor, Council Member Julie Won.
- DOT favors a targeted approach, citing its study that found universal daylighting without physical infrastructure shows no clear safety benefit and could increase injuries, and the agency says some top hot spots already have daylighting.
- Reports from Streetsblog and Gothamist say DOT offered a counterproposal to daylight 100 locations per year without mandated barriers, the Council speaker has embraced that direction, and sponsors have discussed scaling the bill to cover three‑quarters of intersections.
- The bill has 27 co‑sponsors in the 51‑member Council, short of the 34 needed to override an expected mayoral veto, and Streetsblog reported the speaker will block a vote as Council data‑team documents challenge DOT’s underlying analysis.