MIDTOWN — Police will increase traffic enforcement near senior centers in the city during the holiday season, the NYPD announced Monday.
The Holiday Pedestrian Safety Initiative started Monday and will focus on moving violations and failure to yield to pedestrians, according to the department. Officers will be concentrated near the centers during peak times for pedestrian traffic until Dec. 20.
The initiative hopes to reduce pedestrian injuries and will focus on violations that have seen increased enforcement under Vision Zero.
Traffic fatalities have decline by more than 10 percent citywide this year to date compared with 2014 and pedestrian fatalities by more than 4 percent, according to officials.
Car and bicycle crashes have increased in some areas this year, though, including the Upper West Side.
