In January, NYC Mayor Adams and NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez promised to upgrade 1,000 intersections across New York City to improve pedestrian safety.
The 1,000 Intersections Tracker uses Open Data from NYC DOT to track progress towards that goal.
The city didn't say when the 1,000 intersections would be completed, but did state that in 2022, 100 raised crosswalks would be constructed, 100 intersections would be "daylighted" with bike corrals, and 100 intersections would have increased turn calming. Additionally, the city also didn't specify the metrics to determine the 1,000 intersections. The 1,000 Intersections Tracker notes which intersections have been updated since the announcement and whether or not they are Vision Zero Priority intersections, sites NYC DOT has identified with disproportionately high numbers of pedestrian fatalities and severe injuries.
The 1,000 Intersections Tracker compiles changes from NYC Open Data's Raised Crosswalks, Leading Pedestrian Interval Signals (LPIs), Turn Traffic Calming, Traffic Signal and All-Way Stop Study Requests, and Exclusive Pedestrian Signal datasets. The city has not provided a dataset that specifies bike corrals daylighting intersections. (The Bicycle Parking dataset includes bike corrals, but not this information.) Additionally, there are some intersection changes that NYC DOT could implement that do not show up in any Open Data datasets in any form, including pedestrian islands and any bulb-outs that might not be classified as turn calming. Liz Denys, Matt Denys, and Tom Huzij wrote the code processing these datasets.
This repository provides a history of the data behind the 1,000 Intersections Tracker in both an indexed and unindexed format.