December 4, 2007
Map of the Day: CrashStat 2.0
The pedestrian, bicyclist and sensible transportation advocacy group Transportation Alternatives has just launched a new website, Crash Maps: CrashStat 2.0, which maps intersections and streets where pedestrians and bicyclists have been hit by vehicles. It's an updated version of their previous map, and when the information is presented different depending on how closely you zoom into the map. For instance, at one level, it shows crashes (those with injuries as well as the fatal ones) by community district, and at another, you can see the amount of crashes at the intersections.
At the CrashStat website, the ten worst intersections in each borough are listed; here are the top ones:
- Manhattan: Park Avenue and East 33rd Street: 156 crashes
- Brooklyn: Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue: 120 crashes
- The Bronx: East Fordham Road and Webster Avenue: 99 crashes
- Queens: Queens Boulevard and 63rd Road: 72 crashes
- Staten Island: Hylan Boulevard and New Dorp Lane: 34 crashes
The map is still a work-in-progress (here are known issues and additions to come), so Transportation Alternatives urges people to give their feedback.
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I'm sorry sorry sorry to be that person, but this is just a friendly comment and I'm not jumping down your throat like the grammar nazis.
Victory Boulevard doesn't meet New Dorp Lane on Staten Island. I think you mean Hylan Boulevard and New Dorp Lane.
No apologies necessary - I changed it (I took the intersection off a press release, but the CrashState website had the correct info).
Thanks!
Well the solution to this problem is quite obvious. If you eliminate pedestrians, bikes, and vehicles from the yellow coded streets you would cut down most of the incidents. That is where the problems seems to occur.
OK, how bout a map showing where pedestrians are hit by bicycles?
And a map showing where pedestrians are hit by bicyclists while jaywalking, dashing out from behind parked cars, listening to Ipods, typing on blackberries, or being generally oblivious to the world around them... please.