Vision Zero Reimagined by CB & CD
What the shorthand means
- Vision Zero
- The city’s commitment, since 2014, to eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries. Vision Zero Reimagined is the 2026 action plan renewing it, with eight goals and 111 actions across 19 agencies.
- Priority Corridor
- A street DOT has singled out for safety work because of its crash history. There are 199 citywide. The plan commits to finishing safety treatments on all of them.
- Priority Intersection
- One of 304 intersections DOT tracks the same way.
- Daylighting
- Keeping the corners of an intersection clear of parked cars so drivers and people crossing can see each other. Hardened daylighting adds something physical, such as a planter, bollard or bike corral, so it cannot be parked on.
- LPI
- Leading Pedestrian Interval. The walk signal comes on a few seconds before the light turns green for drivers.
- Sammy’s Law
- The 2024 State law that let the city set speed limits below 25 mph. The city is putting 15 mph School Slow Zones at every eligible school and the plan proposes 20 mph zones across whole neighborhoods.
- ISA
- Intelligent Speed Assistance, a device that reads the speed limit and keeps a vehicle from exceeding it. The Super Speeder program will require it for drivers with 16 or more speed camera violations in a year.
- Ghost plates
- Fake, covered or altered license plates that defeat cameras and tolls.
- Major Violator
- The plan’s term for a driver in a hit and run, or without a valid license, or with three or more prior convictions, a prior suspension or a DWI. Involved in 52 percent of traffic deaths in 2025.
- KSI
- Killed or severely injured, the measure DOT uses for its equity tracking.
- Killed, injured
- From the NYPD crash reports on NYC Open Data, crashes with at least one person hurt, placed in a district by the crash coordinates. DOT’s official Vision Zero counts, which the plan uses, are reconciled after the fact and run a little lower than the NYPD file.
- Speed humps, turn calming, LPIs, SIPs
- DOT’s Vision Zero View inventory of what has been installed where. SIP is a Street Improvement Project.
- BKCB6
- Brooklyn Community Board 6. The first two letters are the borough, BK Brooklyn, MN Manhattan, QN Queens, BX the Bronx, SI Staten Island. CB and the number are the community board.
- Council 39
- City Council district 39. There are 51 of them, and they do not line up with community districts.
The ranking behind the map
Why this page exists
On September 15, 2026, Mayor Mamdani’s Office of Operations published Vision Zero Reimagined, a ten-year action plan with eight goals and 111 actions.
Read the rest
Like Block by Block on the housing side, this page puts the city’s plan next to the public record, so anyone can see what the plan commits to, what has happened on the streets of each community district and council district since Vision Zero began in 2014, and what Brooklyn Community Board 6 has already asked for. It also traces what the board itself has asked for since 2010, and where the plan now agrees with it. Its FY27 Statement of District Needs asked for a district-wide transportation assessment, redesigned priority corridors, hardened universal daylighting, loading zones, more cameras and better enforcement. Several of those are now in the plan.
Nothing here is the board’s opinion of the plan. It is the plan, the crashes and the record, laid side by side.
What the plan says is killing people
What the plan says is killing people
What the plan commits to
Eight goals, eleven marquee actions
The eight goals
Sources
Ours: the crash counts by district, the matching of CB6 positions to plan goals, and every comparison on this page.
What CB6 asked for, and where the plan answers
The FY27 Statement of District Needs, next to the plan
CB6’s record: what the board has voted for since 2010
CB6 positions over the years
Sixteen years, %COUNT% votes, one direction of travel. What the board asked for in 2010 and what it asks for now are recognizably the same argument, made with steadily sharper tools.
2010 to 2013, one intersection at a time. %E1% of these votes fall in the first four years, and nearly all of them are a single corner, a single block, a single corral: Grand Army Plaza, Bartel-Pritchard Square, a bike corral outside a shop on 5th Avenue, pedestrian ramps and granite curbs to go with the Prospect Park West median islands. The board asked DOT for a pedestrian safety plan where Atlantic Avenue, Columbia Street and Furman Street meet at Pier 6. It backed the Boerum Hill Neighborhood Slow Zone in 2012, the first time it voted to slow a whole area rather than fix one crossing. Nothing about this era was smooth: the 4th Avenue redesign was disapproved outright in June 2013 and approved with conditions a month later.
2014 to 2019, the corridor years. Vision Zero arrived and the board voted for the state bill that dropped the citywide speed limit to 25 mph, 33 to nothing. From there the unit of work got bigger: the 4th Avenue median reconstruction, protected bike lanes on 4th Avenue with a demand that DOT extend them north to Bergen and Dean, the 7th Avenue lane, the Gowanus Greenway Connector on Hamilton Avenue, ADA plans demanded from NYC Transit for four stations. In March 2018 the board wrote to the Mayor and DOT asking for safety measures along the whole 9th Street corridor.
2020 to today, the rules themselves. The most recent votes are less about a project in front of the board and more about the rules that govern every street: Van Brunt Street out of the truck route network in 2020; opting the city back in to the state law keeping parked cars 20 feet off an intersection in 2023, then hardened daylighting at every intersection in 2025; the Court Street redesign supported with a list of conditions that reads like this plan’s own toolkit, concrete curbs instead of plastic, 15 to 20 mph, leading pedestrian intervals, loading zones; a Gowanus Low Traffic Neighborhood; an end to criminal summonses for delivery cyclists; and in 2026 a district-wide 20 mph slow zone under Sammy’s Law and a call to move parking enforcement out of the NYPD and back to DOT.
Two of those, hardened daylighting and 20 mph zones, are now marquee commitments in the Mayor’s plan. The board got there first.
