Mayor Bill de Blasio's commissioner for transportation Polly Trottenberg has resigned. 

When Trottenberg started in 2014, she took on the ambitious goal of eliminating traffic fatalities in ten years, the Vision Zero plan. She got speed cameras installed outside schools across the city, dropped the speed limit to 25 miles per hour, and installed nearly 100 miles of protected bike lanes.

All of this helped reduce traffic deaths to a record low 205 in 2018.

Then the pandemic hit and traffic fatalities have shot back up. And recently Trottenberg has focused on opening streets and sidewalks for the more than 10,000 restaurants participating in the city's outdoor dining program.