The brother of 26-year-old Will O’Neill, who was killed last fall, believes he may have lived if the intersection where he was crossing had what’s called daylighting.

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Advocates say daylighting or removing parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk reduced pedestrian injuries by 30% in Hoboken, New Jersey and reduced traffic crashes in San Francisco, California by 14%

The city Department of Transportation is currently mandated to daylight 100 intersections a year per a bill passed in 2024 by the City Council

The department is pushing back on the current bill requiring all roughly 40,000 intersections have daylighting and 1,000 a year be hardened with objects bollards or bike racks, saying that a study found indiscriminate daylighting could add 15,000 injuries a year

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