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\\u201cVision Zero\\u201d is the highly ambitious plan put in place two years ago by New York\'s Mayor Bill de Blasio. The goal: no traffic deaths by 2024.\\xa0
America\'s largest city is nowhere near reducing fatal crashes to zero, but great progress has been made since 1990. \\xa0"The good news is that we\'ve gone from 701 deaths back then to an average of 245 deaths a year under the de Blasio Administration," says urban economics and transportation researcher Nicole Gelinas in this "Fix It" episode.
Nicole\\xa0is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She writes for City Journal, The Washington Post, LA Times and a bunch of other publications.
In this show we look at why so many pedestrians and bicycle riders are killed on the streets of U.S. cities and what we can learn from safety initiatives in Sweden and elsewhere.
The bad news is that New York is\\xa0far safer than almost every other American city.\\xa0
"You\'re three times more like to be killed in Atlanta whether you\'re in a car or walking - and you\'re two times more likely to be killed in LA," says Nicole.
We also learn the lessons of the Times Square traffic and pedestrian redevelopment initiative and why it turned critics into fans.\\xa0 During our show Nicole Gelinas unpacks surprising research on the pros and cons of wearing bicycle helmets on busy urban streets.\\xa0
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