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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Alex Duncan, Member of the Public, on Universal Daylighting Bill
3:10:30
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128 sec
Alex Duncan, a member of the public, passionately advocates for the universal daylighting bill, emphasizing its life-saving potential and criticizing council members who do not support it. He reminds the council of the tragic death that sparked this movement and warns of political consequences for those opposing the bill.
- Highlights the origin of the daylighting movement: a seven-year-old girl's death in Astoria
- Argues that council members not supporting the bill are effectively costing lives
- Directly criticizes Council Member Banks for prioritizing car parking over children's safety
- Warns of political action against council members who do not support the bill
Alex Duncan
3:10:30
Hi.
3:10:30
I'm, Alex Duncan, also sometimes known as MISER.
3:10:35
And I know we talked about this a lot today, but this bill is ultimately of course about safety.
3:10:41
But this can feel a bit like an abstraction even to those of us that are closest to this work.
3:10:47
So I just want to remind everyone that the movement that led to this as we've heard I think a few times today was a seven year old girl that was killed in Astoria.
3:10:58
She was crushed to death by a car and since then hundreds more people including a lot of kids have been killed by cars and if we wait even longer thousands will die.
3:11:12
This was a preventable tragedy.
3:11:16
And there are people right now in this city that are walking around that are alive because of the daylighting that's already been done.
3:11:26
So this bill of course as we all know will save lives.
3:11:29
But more importantly the inverse of this is also true.
3:11:33
That the council members that are not here, that are not yet supporting the bill are costing lives.
3:11:41
Right?
3:11:42
They are choosing to not support something that will save lives.
3:11:48
Unfortunately, they're not here in this room to hear all this and to see all the support in the hundreds and maybe thousands of people in this city that are calling for them to actually act.
3:11:59
And I specifically wanna call out council member Banks who earlier talked about how he prioritizes car parking over kids' lives.
3:12:10
I think that's reprehensible.
3:12:12
And I think that all the council members that are not on the bill, hope they actually hear from their staff that we are watching, we know who you are, we are going to vote against you and fundraise against you and run candidates against you.
3:12:25
Because if you can't say that you support keeping your constituents and their kids alive over the storage of private cars, you should not be an elected representative in this city.