"A walk around this Midtown intersection just a few days after Maric's killing helps illustrate why the Adams administration has stalled and obfuscated on universal daylighting: enforcing it would impact politically favored drivers, especially those whose vehicles sport special plates or placards. The next mayor must do better, because New York is coming up against the limits of what it can achieve in reducing traffic deaths and injuries without taking on free or cheap parking, both legal and illegal."
"But there was plenty of evidence of the deadly chaos New York tolerates on an everyday basis on its streets. Just behind the intersection is a no-standing zone, marked with a big red sign. But it was clogged with vehicles, as it always is. The most egregious offender, parked just short of the crosswalk and thus blocking driver visibility from behind, was a massive GMC SUV with a New York Public Library plate (right)."
A German tourist, Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric, was fatally crushed in a Midtown crosswalk when a minivan driver who lacked a license and displayed a fake plate backed into her after failing to clear the intersection before the light turned red. Poor visibility caused by illegally parked and idling vehicles near the crosswalk worsened the crash risk. City enforcement repeatedly fails to keep no-standing zones clear, with examples including a GMC SUV bearing a New York Public Library plate and an idling ice-cream truck. Political reluctance to enforce universal daylighting and confront free or cheap parking undermines traffic-safety progress.
Read at Streetsblog
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