* New York - City made side guards on trucks mandatory
-- In New York City, trucks make up just 3.6 percent of vehicles on New York City streets, according to U.S. DOT, but are involved in 12.3 percent of pedestrian fatalities and 32 percent of bicyclist deaths. As part of its Vision Zero drive, Mayor De Blasio signed a bill making side guards mandatory on all trucks by 2024. This is longer than it should be, being based on the average life cycle of a truck, but an important step... It's nuts that side guards aren't mandatory on trucks in North America. They are in Britain, most of Europe, Brazil and China and don't add much to the cost of trucks if they are designed as part of the truck in the first place. According to a study done for New York by the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, when side guards were mandated in Britain, cyclist deaths dropped 61 percent and pedestrian deaths 20 percent...
(Photo via Streetsblog: Public Domain City of Boston) -- NY, USA - The Treehugger, by Lloyd Alter - September 21, 2015Labels: safety trucks, trucking industry news USA
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