Hoboken, New Jersey has used daylighting, bike lanes, low speed limits and intersection redesigns to drive down traffic deaths.
Source: Bloomberg News
The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths
In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.
This story is part of a Bloomberg CityLab series of conversations with mayors about what they’re doing to make their cities more livable. Read the previous stories, about monarch butterfly conservation in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, and the pedestrianization efforts of Pontevedra, Spain, here.
Before he was Hoboken’s mayor, Ravi Bhalla was just a local resident trying to cross the city’s main corridor with his two young kids. It was harder than it had to be.