New York City is known as the city that never sleeps, and no one seems to take that reputation more seriously than Mayor Bill de Blasio. After being sworn into office in January 2014, de Blasio took on one of the City’s most infamous killers: traffic. In 2013, the year before de Blasio was elected mayor, there were 183 pedestrians killed in traffic crashes, the highest number since 2003. De Blasio wanted the City to change the way it viewed these collisions and fatalities. “We will no longer regard serious crashes as inevitable,” wrote de Blasio in an open letter to the City. In order to combat these traffic-related deaths, de Blasio launched the Vision Zero Action Plan. This initiative called for action from citizens all over New York, from lawmakers and authorities in the

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