By Rebecca Harshbarger
AM New York
A snarky report card by a safe-streets group criticized the head of the MTA as a “Johnny Come Lately,” and ripped the Taxi and Limousine Commission board as a group of “Hazardous Hacks” as new stats showed a nearly 10% drop in traffic deaths this year.
The Transportation Alternatives analysis said the MTA is only “sort of” advancing Vision Zero, and gave chairman Thomas Prendergast the snide title because the group said it was late getting involved in the plan’s Task Force.
It also christened MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg as “radio silence” for not speaking out on how the Right of Way law saves lives. The law, passed in the first year of Vision Zero, leads to the arrest of drivers when pedestrians are struck in crosswalks.
The MTA said their goal has always has been zero fatalities and serious injuries, long before New Yorkers heard about Vision Zero.
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