Chair Epstein asks about modifications on 6th Avenue corridor

So, for example, I know you mentioned 6th Avenue and the 6th Precinct.

What kind of modifications have you made on 6th Avenue to kind of deal with that crash data?

You identified one of the locations was 6th Avenue, right?

So I just want to be clear that these are lengthy corridors that run the entire city.

Yeah, sure.

So I just gave an example of a location, again, 6th Avenue in Manhattan, touching on four separate precincts.

We haven't had anything that I can speak to that I know personally.

Again, we look at what's core for us, which is fatalities, serious injuries, and...

Serious injuries and collisions.

So if there is something along that corridor that really rises to that level, say we see a series of fatalities, God forbid, we throw everything at it.

We're pulling our partners at the DOT, put our heads together, again, going back to Brooklyn, speed enforcement, automated speed,

enforcement type devices along that corridor.

So there are recommendations that are made after we see a spike, so to speak.

So when there is something like that, then we get together and...

I'm asking specifically about the 6th Avenue corridor, because you mentioned the 6th Avenue corridor as a...

I could tell you about enforcement, I mean, what we've done, but...

Sure, what have you done in enforcement on 6th Avenue?

Okay, so I will tell you...

Sixth Avenue corridor, again, the first precinct, sixth precinct, Midtown South, Midtown North.

In 2026, year to date, 193 collisions.

Last year, 179, so up slightly by 14, but the year is not quite over yet.

Down in total injuries, 87 versus 104 from last year.

Again, year in 25, but this year to date is 87.

And I will tell you that it's one versus one in terms of fatalities along that corridor, again, touching four precincts.

If I may, I think part of what you see here is, you know, and we work very, very closely with DOT, is, you know, we have the enforcement piece.

It's only one piece, obviously.

It's an important piece.

And so, you know, we'll do the in-depth work that the CIS team does an incredible job looking in-depth at these.

collisions, we will drive enforcement, working very closely with DOT, who will then, they're looking at this in a more programmatic way.

Obviously, they have lots of pieces here that are not the enforcement piece, whether it's education, whether it's structural issues.

So it's very much a collaborative effort between us.

We have the enforcement piece and DOT with the broader street safety piece.

And on 6th Ave specifically, just to put a finer point on that, we have been in the process of developing and implementing a range of street redesign changes.

One thing that we were seeing there is because as the volume of cyclists and micromobility users has increased, the bike lane

starts to get congested, right?

And you may have a speed differential between the higher and lower speed micromobility.

So part of our redesign is actually to widen the bike lane to make sure there's enough space for cyclists to safely pass each other.