Your claim that traffic fatalities are rising because of open streets, bike boulevards, and dining sheds is ludicrous.
Fatalities are up because drivers are confused by traffic patterns or fixed structures on the shoulder of the road? On what planet does that even sound reasonable? Do traffic fatalities go up wherever there is road construction?
Perhaps you haven't noticed the plague of reckless driving, the rampant failure to yield to pedestrians, the lack of any significant police enforcement, or the proliferation of bogus and often expired temporary plates i.e. unregistered and uninsured vehicles that flout laws with near impunity.
Here's some stats regarding the lack of enforcement. You can find the raw data here
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/traffic-data/traffic-data-archive-2021.pageIn June, 2021 (the last month for which there are full-month stats), cops citywide wrote just 39,777 total moving violation tickets, which is down 51 percent from the 82,229 moving violations cops wrote in June 2019. Specifically, in June, 2021, cops wrote:
2,308 failure-to-yield tickets (down 55 percent from 5,208 in June 2019)
7,777 speeding tickets (down 35 percent from 11,993 in June 2019)
2,623 tickets for running a red light (down 56 percent from 5,933 in June 2019)
1,882 tickets for improper turn (down 72 percent from 6,857 in June 2019)
Through Sept. 1, 172 people have been killed on the roadways — including 80 pedestrians and 17 cyclists or micro-mobility users.
Yes, based on the numbers it surely must be because of the opens streets, bike boulevards, and curbside dining shacks /S.
