Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about State Legislature

TA and Families for Safe Streets Call for Speed Cameras at #EverySchool

By David Meyer | Mar 10, 2016 | 50 Comments

Assembly Member Deborah Glick will introduce legislation to significantly expand New York City’s speed camera program. To get the bill enacted, street safety advocates will have to build support in the State Senate and ensure that Governor Cuomo signs it into law. At a press conference this morning, Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White joined members […]

36 Assembly Members to Cuomo: Stop Playing Games and Fund the MTA

By David Meyer | Feb 23, 2016 | 7 Comments

Andrew Cuomo wants New Yorkers to think he’s taken care of the multi-billion dollar funding shortfall for the MTA capital program, even though his new budget allocates no new funds for the MTA. Well, 36 members of the Assembly aren’t buying it. In a letter to Cuomo, Brooklyn Assembly Member Jim Brennan called on the governor to commit $1.825 billion […]

Donovan Richards Wants Safer Conditions at Deadly Rosedale Intersection

By Brad Aaron | Feb 23, 2016 | 8 Comments

City Council Member Donovan Richards wants DOT to put speed cameras at the Rosedale intersection where a hit-and-run driver killed a teenage girl earlier this month — a request the city may not be able to fulfill due to restrictions imposed by Albany. Richards also urged DOT to make physical improvements to protect people from speeding drivers. […]

State Legislators Call for Dedicated Complete Streets Funding

By David Meyer | Feb 19, 2016 | 6 Comments

Will 2016 be the year New York state backs its five-year-old complete streets law with actual funding for bike and pedestrian infrastructure? New Yorkers for Active Transportation (NY4AT), a coalition of 60 advocacy organizations and community groups, has bipartisan support in both houses for a line item setting aside $20 million per year for complete streets projects. […]

Advocates to Albany: Let NYC Enforce the Speed Limit at Every School

By David Meyer | Feb 8, 2016 | 107 Comments

Advocates from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets will head to Albany tomorrow calling on legislators to expand NYC’s automated speed enforcement program. They want speed cameras by each of the city’s 2,500-plus schools, operational at all times. Speeding is a leading cause of crashes resulting in injury or death, yet state law limits New York […]

Will Meaningful Hit-and-Run Reform Be on Albany’s 2016 Agenda?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 14, 2015 | No Comments

Governor Cuomo has vetoed bills that would have set back efforts to reform state hit-and-run statutes. For years, prosecutors and traffic safety advocates have asked Albany lawmakers to fix state law that rewards drunk drivers who flee the scene of a serious crash, since the penalty for hit-and-run can be less severe than the penalty for drunk drivers who stay at the […]

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