NYC Launches Daylighting Plan

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to bring ‘daylighting’ improvements to over 1,000 of the city’s 40,000 intersections, reports Clio Chang in Curbed.

“But not all forms of daylighting — paint, physical barriers, or extending sidewalks — are created equal, and the mayor’s announcement didn’t offer much detail about what form these interventions would take,” Chang writes. To date, NYCDOT has not provided details on which treatments it would use and where.

Jon Orcutt, director of advocacy at Bike New York, says that daylighting is one of the easier, more affordable interventions cities can undertake to improve traffic safety. “There’s nothing rocket science about it. If people can see each other, things are more predictable, and then things are safer.”