One Brooklyn
January 11, 2017
“I’m proud that Brooklyn led our city with a record decline in traffic fatalities last year. I’m also disturbed that ten New Yorkers have been killed by crashes in 2017’s first ten days, including the tragic deaths in just one day of Rafael Nieves in Williamsburg, Marlon Palacios in East Flatbush, and Iosif Plazinskiy in Sheepshead Bay. We cannot and must not accept anything less than Vision Zero, and we must have far greater accountability for hit-and-run drivers in particular. I believe the de Blasio administration shares my commitment to street safety, and I will continue to be outspoken whenever and wherever we should be doing better. I am also committed to allocating additional resources to redesigning dangerous intersections through my ongoing CROSS (Connecting Residents on Safer Streets) Brooklyn initiative.”
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