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A proposed bill would make it easier for residents to get information about traffic accidents on the city’s most dangerous streets.

The bill, proposed by Council members Margaret Chin, Jimmy Van Bramer, and Ydanis Rodriguez, would force the NYPD to create a database to track crashes on roads officially designated as truck routes, such as Canal Street, Delancey Street and Queens Boulevard.

“This vital piece of legislation is an important part of our quest to achieve zero pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities because it will provide, for the first time, easily accessible data about when and where incidents occur along our city’s dangerous truck routes,” Chin said.

“In my [lower Manhattan] district, and across our city, too many people have died as a result of fatal collisions with trucks on our crowded roadways.”

The database would be searchable by street, precinct, and borough.

In June, the council passed a law requiring a study of pedestrian and cyclist safety on truck routes. The results are due by June of next year.

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