Moderating a Panel on Reducing Speeding
Thomas K. Duane
November 22, 2010
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ISSUE:
- Transportation
On November 19, I moderated a panel entitled “Slower Vehicle Speeds: Healthier New Yorkers” as part of Transportation Alternative’s Stop Speeding Summit, hosted at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The summit brought together elected officials and leaders in the fields of transportation policy, public health, medicine, traffic safety and enforcement to discuss innovative traffic safety measures. The panel that I moderated focused on the use of hospital and 911 call center data to identify streets and intersections that are most dangerous to pedestrians, as well as efforts to synchronize healthy eating and fitness by providing Summer Play Streets near farmers’ markets. I look forward to continuing to work closely with other elected officials and transportation safety advocates and experts on how best to reduce speeding and improve our transportation infrastructure for the health and safety of all New Yorkers.