This analysis identifies the most dangerous roads in the tri-state region for pedestrian fatalities and offers recommendations for improving pedestrian safety in each state. Using federal data from 2012 to 2014, it includes factsheets and maps that identify the locations of pedestrian fatalities and the age and gender of those killed. TSTC analyzed counties in downstate New York and New Jersey that had three or more pedestrian fatalities over the three-year period, as was the state of Connecticut. This year's analysis also includes the four most populous upstate New York counties.

Interactive maps show pedestrian fatalities from 2012 through 2014 based upon the most recent data available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Encyclopedia as well as publicly available map files from the U.S. Census and county, state and city agencies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The Region's Most Dangerous Roads for Walking region-wide summary

The Region's Most Dangerous Roads for Walking recommendations

The Region's Most Dangerous Roads for Walking press releases: New York | New Jersey | Connecticut

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Maps and Factsheets

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Connecticut Interactive State Map | Factsheet		New York Interactive State Map
New Jersey Interactive State Map		The Bronx View map | Factsheet
Atlantic County View map | Factsheet	Middlesex County View map | Factsheet	Brooklyn View map | Factsheet
Bergen County View map | Factsheet	Monmouth County View map | Factsheet	Manhattan View map | Factsheet
Burlington County View map | Factsheet	Morris County View map	Queens View map | Factsheet
Camden County View map | Factsheet	Ocean County View map | Factsheet	Staten Island View map | Factsheet
Cape May County View map	Passaic County View map | Factsheet	Nassau County View map | Factsheet
Cumberland County View map | Factsheet	Salem County View map	Suffolk County View map | Factsheet
Essex County View map | Factsheet	Somerset County View map | Factsheet	Dutchess County View map | Factsheet
Gloucester County View map | Factsheet	Sussex County View map | Factsheet	Orange County View map | Factsheet
Hudson County View map | Factsheet	Union County View map | Factsheet	Putnam County View map | Factsheet
Hunterdon County View map	Warren County View map	Rockland County View map | Factsheet
Mercer County View map | Factsheet		Westchester County View map | Factsheet
	Albany County View map | Factsheet	Monroe County View map | Factsheet
	Erie County View map | Factsheet	Onondaga County View map

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Recommendations

The Campaign urges elected officials, agency leaders and members of the public in Connecticut to:

• Implement pedestrian safety recommendations from existing studies on Route 1, such as those completed by the Western Connecticut Council of Governments and the Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments
• Provide a proportional set-aside of Highway Safety Improvement Program funding for pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure
• Work with municipalities and regional planning agencies to improve pedestrian safety around rail and bus rapid transit stations
• Ensure the Highway Design Manual update is transparent, consistent with the state complete streets law and ConnDOT complete streets policy, and inclusive of the state Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Board
• Integrate walking and biking with transit-oriented development projects
• Support a measure to constitutionally protect transportation revenue from being diverted to other uses

The Campaign urges elected officials, agency leaders and members of the public in New Jersey to:

• Consider a road diet and other design improvements to reduce fatalities on Route 130, the state's most deadly road for the sixth consecutive year, and develop a targeted action plan via NJDOT to reduce fatalities statewide
• Double investment in Transit Village and Safe Streets to Transit programs, which fund pedestrian improvements, to $2 million each
• Standardize NJDOT crash online reporting for all 500-plus municipal agencies, as well as State Police
• Dedicate a $5 million line item on the New Jersey DVRPC Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) to fund specific Circuit trail projects, as has been done with Pennsylvania's DVRPC TIP
• Call on state legislators and the governor to increase the state gas tax for the first time in 28 years
• Support the November 2016 ballot referendum to constitutionally dedicate all of NJ's gas tax revenue to the Transportation Trust Fund
• Adopt Safe Passing legislation (A1348) to enhance safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, construction workers and law enforcement officers

The Campaign urges elected officials, agency leaders and members of the public in New York to:

• Develop complete streets plan with NYSDOT for roads ranked in the top five most dangerous for three or more consecutive analyses
• Dedicate at least 2% of NYSDOT's budget (a minimum of $100 million) to pedestrian and bicycling projects over the next five years
• Call on NYSDOT to release a progress report on complete street projects implemented since the passage of the complete streets Law
• Grant local leaders the power to lower speed limits
• Allow municipalities to use their own adopted design guides in lieu of, or in addition to, AASHTO
• Improve evaluations of system performance for pedestrian and bicycling facilities
• NYC should contribute at least $250 million annually to fix its most dangerous streets and corridors