In his state of the city address last week, Mayor Bloomberg said that despite lower pedestrian fatalities city-wide, his administration would later in January unveil another round of engineering and enforcement measures for Queens Boulevard.

The mayor also said the city would extend the down-zoning initiatives he recently backed on Staten Island (MTR #429) to residential neighborhoods in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.

On the other hand, Bloomberg noted areas slated for growth, including the Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront, the Ratner plan for extensive development, including an NBA basketball stadium on the edge of downtown Brooklyn and the plan to densely develop midtown Manhattan’s far west side. With the exception of the #7 subway extension project for the latter, the mayor did not mention any expansion of transportation capacity to accommodate the development. Regarding the #7 project, the mayor said construction on it would begin in 2005. 

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