Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday the city is increasing the number of intersections receiving safety upgrades on a yearly basis to 2,000.

“We want to be clear on the direction we’re going to take as we move forward. Everything from street redesign to daylighting our intersections, doubling our efforts from the thousand,” said Adams.

At half of the intersections targeted for improvements, the city will add a visibility measure known as daylighting where the parking spaces closest to the intersections would be removed for pedestrian safety.

“People can see around corners and pedestrians can cross safely,” said Deputy Mayor of Operations Meera Joshi.

Overall, the improvements at the intersections will include safety measures like raised crosswalks, extended sidewalks and leading pedestrian signals.

“We have a great team at DOT working every day, redesigning dangerous intersections,” said Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodríguez.

The renewed efforts by the city comes after a series of tragic traffic deaths, such as one on Wednesday night where a hit-and-run driver killed a 3-year-old in Queens.

In October, a crossing guard was killed by a dump truck in Woodhaven, Queens.

Last month, 7-year-old Kamari Hughes was killed by an NYPD tow truck driver in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

“These changes might sound small, but they will for sure save lives,” said Fabiola Mendieta-Cuapio, who lost her 5-year-old son in 2006 to a reckless driver.

She applauded the city’s new efforts to make streets safer for pedestrians.

“Every day since I have thought of his mother, his family, his classmates, his neighbors, the community that loved and cherished him,” added Mendieta-Cuapio. “Our children deserve better, and they deserve safe streets and intersections.”

Starting in January, the city is going to include traffic deaths as part of the crime statistics regularly published by the police department.

Traffic deaths are slightly up compared to this time last year from 228 to 233, according to data.

“When the city knows where these fatalities are taking place, using the DOT, using the NYPD, these are the agencies that can really be on the front lines to stop this,” said Danny Harris, executive director of Transportation Alternatives.

As part of Thursday's announcement, the city plans on expanding its pilot program that controls speed limits to 50 school buses.

Officials said they are looking to get more city cars equipped with the safety technology, including police vehicles.

“We do have vehicles that are allowed to speed to provide services to New Yorkers and to respond to emergencies. But we are currently in talks now to potentially look at installation of tow trucks as well as non-emergency vehicles,” said Dawn M. Pinnock, commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services.

But the technology comes with an override button.

Safe streets advocates say overall the software is helpful.

“You can still go the speed limit, you can still go around the city, it doesn’t mean you can be driving 90 or 100 miles an hour,” said Harris.