Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about State Legislature

To Gain Votes in Albany, Speed Cam Compromise Won’t Protect Every School

By David Meyer | Jun 13, 2016 | 51 Comments

Assembly Member Deborah Glick has put forward a revised speed camera bill in an effort to pick up more votes in Albany. The new version — Assembly Bill 10652 — authorizes 200 speed cameras in New York City, an increase from the current limit of 140, but nowhere near enough to implement automated speed enforcement by […]

NYC Students Rally for Speed Cameras at Every School. Where Is Jeff Klein?

By David Meyer | Jun 9, 2016 | No Comments

With time running out on the legislative session in Albany, NYC students and parents gathered at City Hall this morning to call on the state legislature to expand the city’s life-saving speed camera program. Pending legislation in Albany would allow New York City to effectively enforce the speed limit at all of its schools, but it currently lacks support […]

Get Ready for Next Week’s Speed Cam Rally With This Streetfilms Comic

By Brad Aaron | Jun 3, 2016 | 718 Comments

The campaign to get Albany to allow speed cameras outside every school in NYC is gaining steam. Assembly Member Deborah Glick’s bill now has companion legislation in the Senate, introduced by Jose Peralta. The bill would allow any school to have automated speed enforcement without the current time of day restrictions, and would remove Albany’s 2018 sunset provision, making the city’s […]

Van Bramer + 24 Council Members Call on Albany to Allow More Speed Cams

By David Meyer | May 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, 24 of his colleagues, and Public Advocate Letitia James are calling on the state legislature to expand NYC’s life-saving automated speed enforcement program. Assembly Bill 9861, sponsored by Deborah Glick, would allow New York City to expand its speed camera program to every school in the five boroughs. It would […]

Majority of NYC DAs Agree: All City Schools Should Have Speed Cameras

By Brad Aaron | May 12, 2016 | 15 Comments

Three New York City district attorneys have endorsed Albany legislation that would allow New York City to install speed enforcement cameras outside every school. Cy Vance, Ken Thompson, and Richard Brown, the top prosecutors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, respectively, sent separate letters to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Assembly Transportation Chair David Gantt, and Manhattan […]

NYC Students Tell Albany: Speed Cameras at #EverySchool Will Save Lives

By Brad Aaron | May 10, 2016 | 426 Comments

Students from MS 51 in Brooklyn joined family and friends of people killed by New York City drivers in Albany today to ask state lawmakers to allow the city to install speed cameras outside every school. Organized by Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets, about 140 New Yorkers met with legislators to drum up support […]

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