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Council Member Restler's frustration with DOT's responsiveness
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Council Member Restler expresses deep frustration with the Department of Transportation's lack of responsiveness to daylighting requests. He argues that the current approach is inadequate and calls for more aggressive action to improve intersection safety.
- Restler points out that despite legislation, daylighting is not being implemented at the necessary scale.
- He emphasizes that constituents know their streets best and their input should be valued.
- Restler calls for a 'robust, muscular approach' to tackle the thousand most dangerous intersections in New York City within the next year.
- He concludes that the current situation is 'deflating' and makes constituents feel unheard.
Lincoln Restler
1:28:08
Appreciate that response.
1:28:10
Councilmember Joseph has passed legislation to ensure that there's some daylighting happening, but we're not seeing it materialize in our districts anywhere near the scale that we need.
1:28:21
And so the only choice we have is to support legislation like Councilmember Wan's that just demands it across the board because there's no other way to get DOT to be responsive and partner with us.
1:28:29
It's not just about my constituents being active and outspoken, which they are, and I'm proud of that.
1:28:37
Some of them are even here.
1:28:39
But they know their streets best.
1:28:44
They walk them every day.
1:28:46
And they're giving me and you their expert input on how to make their neighborhood safer, and I'm getting two out of one zero seven.
1:28:53
So that's 2% in the better part of ten months of dangerous intersections daylighted.
1:28:58
That's not working.
1:28:59
So if we're not gonna do a universal approach as your testimony insists, I disagree with that, think we should, but if that's not what you want to do, then we need to see a robust muscular approach from DOT for how we're going to tackle the thousand most dangerous intersections in New York City in the next twelve months and get that done and show that you're serious about making these intersections safer because the status quo is not working.
1:29:20
Thank you.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:29:21
Thank you.
1:29:22
Does DOT want to respond to that?
1:29:25
Any commitments?
Alex Morano
1:29:26
No.
1:29:27
Okay.
Eric Beaton
1:29:28
We we are happy to work with you on identifying the most dangerous intersections intersections and how to work
Jumaane Williams
1:29:31
with them.
Lincoln Restler
1:29:32
But I've done that.
1:29:33
I mean, I did that.
1:29:33
I gave you a hundred and seven, and I and we can go through the day the traffic data for exactly why these are the right places.
1:29:39
And the idea that two two have been resolved in ten months, that's incredibly disappointing.
1:29:44
Right?
1:29:44
And it's deflating and it makes my constituents feel like nobody's listening, that nobody's working to address their real safety concerns.
1:29:51
You may not have done a hundred and seven and I wouldn't have dinged you if you had done a substantial number, but you basically did nothing.
1:29:57
And that doesn't work.
1:29:58
So thank you.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:29:59
Thank you.