Section 19-180. Safety audits of crash locations involving pedestrians a  


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  • Within one hundred and eighty days of receiving access to New York state
      department of motor vehicles traffic  crash  data  involving  pedestrian
      injuries  or  fatalities  for the previous calendar year, the department
      shall:
        1. Identify the twenty highest crash locations based upon a ranking of
      the  total  number  of  crashes  involving  pedestrians   and   selected
      proportionally  by  borough  based  upon the percentage of total crashes
      involving pedestrians in such borough; and
        2. Inspect and conduct audits at such locations and, where  warranted,
      make improvements or incorporate improvements into capital projects.
        b.  Within  thirty  days  of  completing  the  inspections  and audits
      required under paragraph  2  of  subdivision  a  of  this  section,  the
      department  shall  send  a  report  noting such inspection and audit and
      summarizing its recommendations and  steps  to  be  taken,  including  a
      schedule  to  implement  such recommendations, to the council member and
      community board in whose district the crash location is located.
        c. If any crash location appears on the department's  annual  list  of
      twenty  highest crash locations involving pedestrians in two consecutive
      years, such location shall be removed from the annual list and  replaced
      by  the  location  with  the  next  highest  number of crashes involving
      pedestrians  located  within  the  same  borough  as  the  consecutively
      appearing  location;  provided  that  the  department  shall continue to
      monitor such crash data and/or make safety improvements at such  removed
      location  until  such  removed  location is no longer one of the highest
      crash locations.
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