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City Council Lets Albany and NYPD Off the Hook for Traffic Violence

Posted By Ben Fried On March 8, 2013 @ 1:33 pm In Christine Quinn,City Council,James Vacca | 9 Comments

City Council Speaker Chris Quinn and Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca finally responded to the deaths of Amar Diarrassouba and Raizel and Nachman Glauber today, after devoting their energy earlier in the week to keeping municipal parking underpriced ^[1].

So are they calling on Albany to pass speed camera legislation ^[2]? Nope. Pressuring NYPD to get serious about crash investigations ^[3] and truck enforcement ^[4]? Not that either.

Quinn and Vacca, joined by five other council members, are making their stand for safer streets by sending a letter to the one agency that’s taken meaningful action to reduce traffic violence, NYC DOT. How courageous ^[5]:

If you’d like to help tackle the traffic enforcement issues that the City Council won’t touch, Transportation Alternatives’ speed camera petition ^[6] is a good place to start.

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URLs in this post:

[1] to keeping municipal parking underpriced: http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/07/what-city-do-christine-quinn-and-james-vacca-represent/

[2] pass speed camera legislation: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ticket-stopping-city-traffic-deaths-article-1.1282580

[3] crash investigations: http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/15/one-year-and-280-deaths-later-no-council-progress-on-nypd-crash-reforms/

[4] truck enforcement: http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/07/questions-remain-about-illegal-trucks-after-amar-diarrassoubas-death/

[5] How courageous: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/03/document-drop-council-to-dot-investigate-sites-of-deadly-glauber-diarrassouba-

[6] Transportation Alternatives’ speed camera petition: https://secure3.convio.net/ta/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=233&pw_id=2441&autologin=true&utm_source=transaltSplashAd&utm_medium=email&utm_content=version1&utm_campaign=2013ADVO%20Speed%20Cameras

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