Community Corner
Bed-Stuy Residents! Apply for a 'Neighborhood Slow Zone' on Your Block
A new program that's proven to reduce speeding on local streets is now accepting applications... but only for a limited time.
Do car and truck drivers break the speed limit in your neighborhood? A new program that’s proven to reduce speeding on local streets is now accepting applications, but only for a limited time.
In 2010, Transportation suggested the City of New York reduce the speed limit in unsafe residential neighborhoods. In 2011, the City inaugurated the first “Neighborhood Slow Zone,” reducing the speed limit in the Claremont section of the Bronx to 20 mph. Using speed bumps, narrowed road widths, bike lanes and “gateways” that indicate the lowered limit, Neighborhood Slow Zones are already making whole communities safer by dramatically reducing speeding.
If you act right now, you can apply for these innovative traffic calming tools to come to your neighborhood. And T.A. has a team of activists to help you with the applications. Simply answer a few questions to get started. Apply today, as the deadline is rapidly approaching.
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