{"id":300656436,"date":"2014-07-12T19:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=300656436"},"modified":"2014-07-12T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:40:36","slug":"complete-streets-save-nyc-taxpayers-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=300656436","title":{"rendered":"Complete Streets Save NYC Taxpayers Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Miller, Streets Blog<br \/>\nEach year, the city comptroller issues a report on claims settled for and against the city, showing how much New York spends on personal injury and property-damage judgments. Every year, there\u2019s a similar story: Damages from crashes involving drivers of city vehicles rank as one of the top money-losers for taxpayers. A report issued this week by Comptroller Scott Stringer [PDF] is no exception, singling out complete streets as a tool to reduce claims.<br \/>\nWhile claims against the city have held mostly steady since 2003, motor vehicle claims are down 13 percent to $91.2 million during fiscal year 2013. One potential factor: street design. \u201cNYC DOT has been a national leader in working to transform our roads into \u2018complete streets\u2019 that serve a variety of users,\u201d the report says. \u201dThis is not only smart transportation policy, it is also an intelligent way to drive down claims costs.\u201d<br \/>\nStringer cites a 2006 Federal Highway Administration report on risk management:  \u201dWith every passing year, the courts become less and less sympathetic to agencies that have not understood the message: bicyclists and pedestrians are intended users of the roadway.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2014\/07\/11\/stringer-complete-streets-save-city-money\/\">https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2014\/07\/11\/stringer-complete-streets-save-city-money\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Miller, Streets Blog Each year, the city comptroller issues a report on claims settled for and against the city, showing how much New York spends on personal injury and property-damage judgments. Every year, there\u2019s a similar story: Damages from crashes involving drivers of city vehicles rank as one of the top money-losers for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=300656436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Complete Streets Save NYC Taxpayers Money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300656436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300656436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300656436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300656436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300656436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300656436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300656436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}