The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
Despite Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero program, injuries from traffic crashes in 2018 and 2019 were 1 percent higher than in 2016 and 2017. But in communities of color, the number of crash-caused injuries are soaring by double digit percentages.