Safety Programs

DOT has taken unprecedented steps to expand street safety engineering in all five boroughs. Including through:

• Safe Streets for Seniors
• Safe Routes to Schools
• Expansion of Bicycle Network
• and many other local projects.

School Safety Engineering

DOT's Office of School Safety Engineering improves street safety to create Safe Routes to Schools. This office also oversees DOT's Priority Schools initiative.

Priority Schools Initiatives/Safe Routes to Schools

Read more about the progress at the first 135 priority schools and the schools selected for round two.

Safety Education

DOT's Office of Safety Education runs programs and provides services that promote traffic safety for children, parents, educators and senior citizens.
Learn about Walk Ways, a program to help schools develop walk-to-school routes and encourage students to walk to school.

Safe Routes to Transit

As part of PlaNYC the DOT is working to improve pedestrian and motor vehicle movement around subway entrances and bus stops to make accessing mass transit easier and more convenient.

Safe Streets for Seniors

A major new pedestrian safety initiative for older New Yorkers, DOT engineers will evaluate pedestrian conditions in targeted neighborhoods citywide from a senior's perspective and make safety improvements.