21st Street Vision Zero Safety Corridor
rkhuzami The NYC DOT has designated 21st st from 20th ave to 50th avenue as a Vision Zero Site and will focus on additional safety precautions.
The DOT says the 4.2 pedestrian deaths per mile from 2012-2016 make this designation an urgent public safety matter.
Improvements will include leading pedestrian interval signals, and retiming of traffic lights to reduce speeding.
Please see) the Updated Borough Pedestrian Safety Action Plan just released by the City for further information.
OANA greatly supports this initiative, and looks forward to a safer Astoria/LIC. This is one of our most important transit corridors, both for commercial traffic and as the link between the Triboro and BQE and the Queensborough Bridge and Midtown Tunnel. We need to find the proper balance between transit and pedestrian needs so they coexist safely.
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Richard Khuzami
Mr. Khuzami has been a member of Community Board 1 in Astoria, NY for the last 20 years. He sits on the Zoning and parks Committees and is on the Executive Board. Previously, he served as Parks and Culture chair of Community Board 1 for eleven years and also chaired Capital and Expense priority Committee. He is a member of the Queens General Assembly and had been a panelist for grant submissions for the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA). Richard also is an officer of The Eastern Mediterranean Business Culture Alliance (EMBCA) and President of OANA.