Transportation
How Jersey City Got to Zero Traffic Deaths on Its Streets
This town outside of New York City scored the biggest traffic safety success story of 2022. Here’s how they did it.
It’s been another bad year on the roads of New Jersey. Mirroring national trends, the Garden State saw a spike in traffic fatalities after the pandemic’s onset in 2020, and the pattern hasn’t let up. Roadway deaths jumped nearly 20% between 2020 and 2021, and have come down less than a percentage point since, within a morbid margin of error of 2021’s high.
But a different story is playing out in Jersey City.