Design changes for Hempstead Tpke. urged
Photo credit: Thomas A. Ferrara | Photo of some of the traffic signs and signals at the intersection of Meacham Ave. and Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont. (July 25, 2011)
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Queens Boulevard was notorious as the "Boulevard of Death" in the 1990s because pedestrian fatalities and injuries were so frequent.
But by 2006, big changes to make the thoroughfare through Queens safer for people on foot had dramatically reduced deaths. From 1999 on, tens of thousands of linear yards of barriers were put up, midblock crossings with signals for walkers were added, and medians...
