{"id":93,"date":"2008-10-28T04:38:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T04:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-12-06T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T18:01:51","slug":"52nd-and-skillman-a-history-of-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"52nd and Skillman: A History of Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/volpe-petition081027.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">his petition<\/a>, Al Volpe asks his neighbors to sign onto the assertion that &#8220;Skillman Avenue is a very safe street.&#8221;\u00a0 This is simply not true.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashstat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashstat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CrashStat<\/a> is a website set up by Transportation Alternatives showing crashes around the city resulting in pedestrian or cyclist injury from 1995 to 2005, based on data compiled from police reports by the New York State Department of Transportation.\u00a0 It shows that there were <strong>six <\/strong>separate such crashes at the corner of 52nd and Skillman during this period: pedestrians were injured in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2005.\u00a0 These are in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=61\">the crash in May <\/a>when a girl was injured, but not seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this, for example, to the stretch of 50th Avenue between 44th Street and 49th Street, where there were no injuries at all during this period.\u00a0 Now that&#8217;s what I call a very safe street!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his petition, Al Volpe asks his neighbors to sign onto the assertion that &#8220;Skillman Avenue is a very safe street.&#8221;\u00a0 This is simply not true.\u00a0 CrashStat is a website set up by Transportation Alternatives showing crashes around the city resulting in pedestrian or cyclist injury from 1995 to 2005, based on data compiled from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crashes","category-daylighting","category-tools","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}