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According to Transportation Alternatives, a transportation safety advocate, Midtown Manhattan is far and away the busiest location in New York City for pedestrians. Meanwhile, pedestrians in New York are generally twice as likely to be fatally injured by a car than those in Berlin, Tokyo, and Paris.
Transportation Alternatives, an accident watchdog and advocate for bicycle travel and walking, released its statistics in their first "Walking in Traffic Violence" report.
The primary offender is Midtown, which stretches 42 blocks south of Central Park, and runs from Eighth Ave. to Lexington Ave. Between 1995 and 2009, 8,604 pedestrians were killed by cars in the area. Transportation Alternatives and pedestrians are not surprised. The area is a compact hive of activity full of aggressive drivers, they say.
The fatality figure contrasts starkly with that of other districts. The second-most dangerous district is in Jamaica, which saw 4,741 crashes in that time period -- a figure just over half of the Midtown total. Trailing in third place is the Upper East Side's District 8 at 4,694 fatalities. Its southern neighbor, District 6, comes in fourth place with 4,543 fatalities.
Transportation Alternatives is calling for the city to prosecute traffic violators more forcefully.
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