The city will lower the speed limit on Northern Boulevard and Queens Boulevard in the coming months, city officials announced Thursday, two of several roadways in the city to be dubbed "arterial slow zones" as part of the de Blasio administration's Vision Zero Initiative.
The speed limit will be lowered from 30 to 25 miles per hour on a 4.2 mile stretch of Northern Boulevard between 40th Road and 114th Street beginning in May, and to 7.4 miles of Queens Boulevard, between Jackson and Hillside Avenues, starting in July.
In addition to the speed limit, the DOT will change the timing of signals to discourage speeding and will increase police enforcement on the selected streets, officials said.
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Speed limit on QB won't change because Queens doesn't deserve the same safe streets the rest of the city is getting. The boulevard of death will keep on killing.
Jimmy Van Bramer and Mike Gianaris are both always in front of a camera.
Pity they do not have the same time for their constituents.
What the hell does it matter? Cops don't enforce it!
When they do something about all the out of state plates, when they do something about all the commercial vehicles parked on the street and also those without commercial tags and when they do something about all the for sale vehicles parked on the city streets without tags and registration stickers then we'll know they are serious. Because if you don't do anything about all these rules violations why should these same people obey any new laws. It seems like a case of the city not caring about these clear violations, but nee progressive rules doing good
Add this as another reason for someone to want to leave NY.
As long as we ignore pedestrians being the main problem in accidents, nothing will change.
Its not a driver's fault if he hits a pedestrian jaywalking, its the pedestrian's fault. In many vehicle vs. Ped accidents the pedestrian is crossing when and where he/ she shouldn't be.
More jaywalking summonses should be issued along with more pedestrian fencing to prevent midblock crossings. That will save lives, not creating more traffic for drivers to sit in.
"Speed limit on QB won't change because Queens doesn't deserve the same safe streets the rest of the city is getting. The boulevard of death will keep on killing."
Queens Blvd is a major traffic artery. The speed limit being 30 mph is actually slow for a major artery like Queens Blvd. What do you want a speed limit of 5 so we can just roll down the street?
The Blvd of death will keep killing as long as people are dumb enough to keep mindlessly walking across it, not obeying the walk signals.
Lower limits and speed cameras.
All this does is make it more enticing for drivers to drive on the
'faster' side streets where you are more likely to hit a kid playing outside.
Brilliant.
MOST places in the nation, larger streets get HIGHER speed limits. Northern Blvd in Nassau County is 50MPH for fucks sake.
All this does is make it more enticing for drivers to drive on the
'faster' side streets where you are more likely to hit a kid playing outside.
Then make those small side streets one way, switching every block to eliminate through traffic, and if you go the wrong way your tires get shredded.
But you make a good point, why isn't De Blasio lowering the speed limit to 25 on tertiary streets citywide?
The more traffic is slowed by traffic lights, stop signs, or lower than reasonable speed limits, the more people will try to cut corners to get where they have to go in a reasonable amount of time.
It already takes an insane amount of time to get across this city. We should be looking into ways to expand our roadways and increase speeds, not trying to reduce them for longer commutes.
Here's a novel idea - cross at the crosswalk and wait until the light is red. Watch # of deaths reduced.
>Here's a novel idea - cross at the crosswalk and wait until the light is red. Watch # of deaths reduced.
The majority of pedestrian deaths occur in a marked crosswalk when the pedestrian had the light or on a sidewalk. How do you reduce the danger for pedestrians when they are where they are 'supposed' to be.
'It already takes an insane amount of time to get across this city. We should be looking into ways to expand our roadways and increase speeds, not trying to reduce them for longer commutes.'
Why should people living between you and your destination have their neighborhoods destroyed by turning them into speedways?
'MOST places in the nation, larger streets get HIGHER speed limits. Northern Blvd in Nassau County is 50MPH for fucks sake.'
Most civilized nations are going the other way. NYC is the densest city in the country by an arm and a leg. What works in the rest of the country doesn't necessarily apply here.
Yes pedestrians often are at fault but you can see cars weave in and out at extremely high speeds.
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