Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Bowery is the fourth most dangerous street in Manhattan

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign released a report on "the most dangerous roads for pedestrians" in the area yesterday. According to the report (via the Times), 109 pedestrians were killed on Manhattan streets from 2007-2009. In total, there were seven fatalities on the Bowery — putting it at fourth place in the city...


The report includes a map showing each roadway death... here's a shot of the LES...


You can find the whole report here.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2011 at 6:52 AM

    Saw this map in the Times last night. I know it's cruel but as I scanned the list of tragedies and saw the number of females in their twenties, I had to wonder if they were recent transplants ignoring traffic as they skipped along listening to their ipods.

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  2. LisaFebruary 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    Yeah, or doing their patented SATC walk-skip as they giggled drunkenly with their gal pals.

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  3. SFebruary 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    The worst types I see playing in traffic are lost B&Ters who clearly watch the Jersey Shore for fashion tips, not transplants.

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  4. Bowery BoyFebruary 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM

    The snark notwithstanding, from what I could see the vast majority of fatalities were senior citizens, not B&T ipodders. But what strikes me about the Bowery deaths is that the majority of them happened in a short 5 block stretch between Canal (Manhattan Bridge) and Delancey (Williamsburg Bridge). Rather than who died, I'd like to know who/what killed them. Big trucks perhaps??? That's a problem deserving attention.

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  5. EV GrieveFebruary 10, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Agreed Bowery Boy.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    @Bowery Boy.
    Let me get right in here and say; "it's all the fault of the cyclists".
    There we go. Got that out of the way.

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