Screenshot from a streetsblog "mamdani answers to streetsblog mayoral candidate survey" page. "How would you make streets in your district safer for walking and biking? Do you support the city's construction of protected bike lanes? If so, why? If not, why not?" "The policy and infrastructure solutions to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities have been well known for years. The major obstacles to success have been a lack of political will and an administration that leverages street usage and design to broker political deals rather than advancing the wellbeing of New Yorkers. I strongly support the construction of protected bike lanes, and I will use the mayor’s full powers to implement vision zero solutions. This includes implementing all the available tools in the city’s current toolkit: pedestrianizing vast swaths of the congestion relief zone, streets near existing public open space, open streets and schools; implementing protecting bike lanes; creating a plan and timeline for building a true bike network and hardened daylighting at every intersection in the city; and more. To make sure infrastructure solutions can be implemented quickly and effectively, I will greatly expand the resources available to DOT to conduct this work." "pedestrianizing vast swaths of the congestion relief zone" is highlighted by me.

"With a ban on cars a non-starter, New York City has one obvious engineering solution: bollards. Simple steel bollards on the corner of Maujer Street and" The "with a ban on cars a non-starter" is highlighted.