Neither the mayor nor the City Council can set the speed limit, and they can’t control the traffic cameras that send automated tickets to drivers, two integral ways to reduce traffic crashes on streets across NYC. Mayor Adams wants to change that.
, named after 12-year old Samuel Cohen Eckstein, who was killed in 2013 by a driver on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn. Sammy’s Law would give the city the ability to lower the speed limit without approval from Albany., which advocates hope state lawmakers will pass this year and could make the streets safer, even if they don’t give the city “home rule.”killed by an SUV
While street safety advocates from Transportation Alternatives support the transfer of authority from the state to the city, the group notes at a bare minimum they’d like the school speed cameras“We cannot let the safety of our children and neighbors in New York City become a debate in Albany year after year,” Danny Harris, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives, wrote in a statement.
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