Sentences with phrase «on pedestrian safety»

All of the resources required to run a parent workshop on pedestrian safety are also included.

This is why our Sixty Seconds of SafetyTM Message for March is focused on pedestrian safety.

The grant will also be used for marketing to reach pedestrians in these areas and to train officers on pedestrian safety.

A similar system in Australia has led to changes in the law on pedestrian safety in the workplace, the drowning of children in swimming pools and accidental child hangings from blind and curtain cords.

We will seek to focus this committee on accomplishing Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative, placing a premium on pedestrian safety to avoid any further avoidable loss of life.

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Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

During an intense hour of oral arguments, Massachusetts officials said the issue was more about public safety and pedestrian access on local sidewalks.

The traffic safety campaign is geared to kids preschool - aged to 1st grade and focus on four main areas: pedestrian, bus, bike and car seat safety.

Teach pedestrian (crossing streets, etc.) and playground safety (including not playing on trampolines).

The city's transportation board is raising awareness of pedestrian safety with the mannequins on Wacker Drive.

Unger, an instructor for the Elmhurst Park District, which operates Safety Town, reminds the children to use hand turn signals, watch for pedestrians and, in one case, not to drive on the railroad tracks.

Park district Executive Director Fred Hall said the district asked Carriageway to build the path on the south side of Euclid to ensure bicycle and pedestrian safety.

It also says that TfL should review the speed limits on all its roads in line with its new Healthy Streets check and that the authority and its contractors should — when carrying out roadworks — check and resolve critical safety issues for pedestrians and cyclists.

Antonio Reynoso, Council District 34, Brooklyn / Queens (Incumbent)-- Reynoso, who's established himself as a leader in the City Council on matters of pedestrian and cyclist safety, is running for a second term.

He has also been a leader on issues of livable streets and transit, helping to advance pedestrian safety and bike infrastructure in his district and around the city.

The budget includes «$ 1.14 million to fund 80 additional school crossing guards,» which will help contribute to the mayor's Vision Zero traffic and pedestrian safety work around schools, and more money for teachers to spend on their classrooms.

Faced with a reduced transport budget, many councils are cutting back on new road safety measures, like pedestrian crossings and 20mph zones.

«There was no perfect solution readily available at this location and, on balance, a pedestrian activated traffic signal is a safety improvement,» Oddo said in a statement.

The new safety measure comes after 1st Precinct Commanding Officer Brendan Timoney vowed to continue to put pressure on the DOT to improve pedestrian safety outside of the school, following the crossing guard accident.

In her 12 years in the City Council, Gale Brewer has consistently championed livable streets with characteristic patience, most notably by forging a consensus on the Upper West Side to eliminate cars in Central Park and to install and extend pedestrian - safety improvements and protected bike paths on Columbus Avenue.

In her 12 years in the City Council, Gale Brewer has consistently championed livable streets with characteristic patience, most notably by forging a consensus on the Upper West Side to eliminate cars in Central Park and to install and extend pedestrian safety improvements and protected bike paths on Columbus Avenue.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

StreetsPAC's Endorsement Announcement: In her 12 years in the City Council, Gale Brewer has consistently championed livable streets with characteristic patience, most notably by forging a consensus on the Upper West Side to eliminate cars in Central Park and to install and extend pedestrian - safety improvements and protected bike paths on Columbus Avenue.

Squadron, along with other local officials including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and a host of concerned parents and residents, have been pushing the DOT to improve pedestrian safety on the block, which is home to the Spruce Street School.

David Sinclair, head of policy for Help the Aged, said: «Safety on our roads is of paramount importance - around 40 per cent of pedestrian fatalities are older people and older people are far more likely to be severely injured or killed in accidents.

Police agencies on Long Island and in two dozen upstate counties issued 1,285 tickets and 1,416 warnings during a two - week pedestrian safety initiative earlier this summer.

Earlier this year, Mayor de Blasio announced a crackdown on e-bikes, which he said pose a safety threat to pedestrians.

A short time ago, elected officials, pedestrian safety advocates and community leaders crowded onto the bustling sidewalk on the Lower East Side to acknowledge a legislative achievement.

It permits, for instance, automated, or self - driving, car makers to get another one - year window in order to test their vehicles on New York roads, with various safety - related requirements; it comes after an Uber automated car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.

Following two reported car - pedestrian accidents on campus already this semester, students and faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh held a safety forum recently to delve into where the dangerous intersections are and why pedestrians are at risk.

10 a.m., The Committee on Transportation will meet to discuss a bill that would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to conduct a study on the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists along bus routes.

In a statement, Rodriguez promised to work to make Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero traffic safety initative — a proposal to reduce the number of pedestrian crashes on city streets — into a reality.

That's why we have called on the New York City Department of Transportation to implement red light cameras and other pedestrian safety

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about New York State money for pedestrian safety upgrades in upstate communities and a Supreme Court decision on guns bans in New York and Connecticut.

De Blasio said that drivers who enter intersections without enough space on the other side «block the box,» which affects traffic and puts pedestrians» safety at risk.

Pedestrian safety in one busy area of Rockland County is now called back into question after a driver hit a mother and her young children on Monday.

Residents rattled off lists of concerns about odor, rats, air quality, pedestrian safety and the overall effect on quality of life when living between heaps of trash, in a video made by Cleanup North Brooklyn, an organization that advocates for trash reform.

While DOT has been working on improving safety conditions in Lower Manhattan and should be commended for that work, today's incident underscores the need for further attention to this intersection, as well as rapid passage of pedestrian safety legislation to ensure that tragedies like this don't happen again.»

He sees the day when his simulations could be modified to model disease transmission through casual contact, shopping on a crowded street, or pedestrian safety at a traffic intersection.

Your local office of the American Automobile Association might have for you copies of brochures or activity books on a variety of timely safety topics including school bus safety, bicycle safety, and pedestrian safety.

The results have been announced in the 2017 United Nations Global Road Safety Week, which is timed to raise awareness of the 500 children who die on the world's roads every day on bikes, in vehicles, as pedestrians and in walking to school.

We already know about three new active safety features set to debut on the 2015 XC90, including an updated pedestrian detection system, an active steering correction feature, and an enhanced adaptive cruise control system that can follow lane markings using cameras and other sensors.

Active safety features include forward pedestrian detection and braking, low - speed forward automatic braking standard on SLT - 2 and Denali trim levels, forward automatic braking available on Denali, a Surround - Vision camera, forward collision alert, lane - keep assist with lane departure warning, blind spot warnings, and front - and rear parking sensors.

The second - generation Toyota Safety Sense system, launching in the middle of next year on certain models, adds a pre-collision system with day / night pedestrian protection and day bicycle detection function, lane - departure alert with steering assist, lane - tracing assist, road sign assist and full - range dynamic radar cruise control (except on manual transmission cars and trucks) with enhanced forward recognition and acceleration / deceleration.

Volvo says that the hybrid setup works to City Safety's advantage: the radar allows the car's central control unit to detect moving pedestrians and passengers early on, while the people in question come into focus on the camera and the system's video processor begins to track them.

LOS ANGELES, California — Toyota is expanding its suite of active safety features for certain models by mid-2018, and an enhanced Lexus Safety System launching in February as an option package on the new LS will steer itself around pedestrians in certain situasafety features for certain models by mid-2018, and an enhanced Lexus Safety System launching in February as an option package on the new LS will steer itself around pedestrians in certain situaSafety System launching in February as an option package on the new LS will steer itself around pedestrians in certain situations.

The Q2 is equipped with the full complement of safety gear as standard - active emergency braking with pedestrian detection and six airbags come standard on all models.

NHTSA maintains a bicycle safety program focus is on research, education, and enforcement of motorists», bicyclists», and pedestrians» behavior to enhance roadway safety and reduce injuries and fatalities.

Tech count isn't overly high, though like all modern Mercs the safety equipment list is extensive, with driver - monitoring Attention Assist warning you if you're too tired to drive, collision prevention assist and even an active bonnet for pedestrian protection on the huge standard safety kit list.

FRA has worked to identify safety risks and to improve the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists at grade crossings, gathering information on signals, signs, and other devices used to prevent non-motorized fatalities.