NYC mayor signs traffic safety legislation

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed eleven bills into law Monday that are meant to improve traffic safety and reduce pedestrian fatalities in the nation’s largest city.

The measures are among the first steps in de Blasio’s wide-ranging Vision Zero plan, which is intended to make streets safer and curb a recent rise in pedestrian fatalities. The plan’s ambitious goal is to eventually eliminate all traffic fatalities in a city of 8.4 million people.

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