The Pedestrian Bicycle and Safety Act was unanimously passed by City Council yesterday, demanding the Department of Transportation identify the 20 most dangerous intersections for pedestrians and examine possible safety and capital improvements for these hot spots.

It will also require the DOT to inspect patterns of crashes involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists--requiring safety measures, if needed--and study sites of pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries over the last five years.

A Transportation Alternatives report found that 50 percent of pedestrian fatalities or injuries occur at 10 percent of our intersections--data they got from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

"If Mayor Michael Bloomberg is serious about PlaNYC we need safer streets to encourage more pedestrians and bicyclists," the bill's sponsor Councilman Vincent Gentile said. He's already received a call from the mayor of Seattle interested in possibly replicating the legislation.