A spate of gruesome pedestrian accidents over the last few days has left New Yorkers nervous about the safety of city sidewalks, while advocates and pols are calling for more to be done.

Monday, a 57-year-old woman was killed and several people were injured when a dump truck careened into the back of a Fung Wah bus in Chinatown. The accident came after a weekend where four cars rammed into pedestrians over the course of two days, hitting 22 people and seriously injuring seven.

The city will reconfigure one of Brooklyn's most-dangerous intersections--at Adams and Tillary streets in Downtown--but the work won't happen without a fight, insiders said.

It's a second go-around for the Department of Transportation, which came to Community Board 2 in April with a plan to reroute Brooklyn Bridge–bound traffic through Brooklyn Heights--but that plan was resoundingly rejected by the panel.

Here's another opportunity for livable streets advocates to make themselves heard tonight: DOT will be hosting a public input session regarding congestion on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens, focusing on the area between Queens Boulevard and Liberty Avenue.

Subjects to be discussed include: Traffic Volume, Roadway Alignment, Mass Transit, Physical Constraints and the Service Road.

How do people leave their homes in the morning? Since Thursday, three people have been killed by vehicles in Brooklyn.

Early this morning, the Post reports that "one person was killed and two others were injured" when a van hit them at Avenue U and East 33rd Street in Marine Park. A witness said, "I was in my basement when I heard a big bang. First I heard the hand on the horn and then I heard a bunch of girls screaming." Then she "saw a boy dead on the street." The driver stayed at the scene; it's unclear if he/she was charged.

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Life on the streets of New York City should get a lot safer for bicyclists and pedestrians in the coming months.

Last Wednesday, the City Council unanimously passed the Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Act, a package of legislation aimed at reducing the number of accidents and fatalities involving people walking or biking on the city's roads.

Though it was buried by another story, the City Council made news this week by passing legislation that will require identification and inspections of dangerous locations for pedestrians and cyclists, and action to correct hazardous conditions.

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.