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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Ben Tucker, Co-chair of Transportation Committee at Brooklyn Community Board 4
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Ben Tucker, a resident of Bushwick, Brooklyn and Co-chair of the Transportation Committee at Brooklyn Community Board 4, testifies in support of Intro 1138 for Universal Daylighting. He emphasizes the safety benefits of daylighting at intersections and mentions that his community board is one of 22 citywide that support the initiative.
- Tucker highlights that daylighting can increase visibility at intersections, potentially reducing traffic crashes and fatalities.
- He notes that daylighting can have additional benefits beyond safety, such as mitigating flooding and beautifying neighborhoods.
- Tucker mentions that his community board reached a consensus on supporting daylighting, even among car owners and non-car owners alike.
Ben Tucker
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Hi.
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Ben Tucker, and I'm a resident of Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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I wanna start by thanking committee chair council member Brooks Powers for holding this hearing today and for allowing me to share my testimony today.
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I'm I'm here today in support of Intro eleven thirty eight for Universal Daylighting.
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I also wanna say thank you to council member Julie Wan for sponsoring the bill and to my council member in District 34, Jennifer Gutierrez, who is a cosponsor of the bill.
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To put it as simply as possible, daylighting makes every New Yorker more safe by increasing the visibility in every intersection if we were to pass universal daylighting.
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According to the New York City DOT, more than half of all traffic crashes and half of traffic fatalities happen at an intersection.
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Last year, traffic crashes killed two fifty three people in New York City.
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That's two fifty three people that we lost.
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These were people's parents, their children, their friends, and their neighbors.
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So no matter what mode of transportation we use, we all suffer from this preventable loss of life.
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And conversely, we would all benefit from safer intersections.
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I also feel it would be helpful to mention, I'm a member of Brooklyn CB4, and I'm a co chair of my board's transportation committee.
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I'm here as an individual representing myself, but I think it's important to highlight that, as a board, we weighed in on this, and there was a consensus that was reached by people on the board who some were car owners, some were not, but we we all agree that there's the better use, of city space in there in many instances than parking spaces.
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Bushwick suffers from flooding, and daylighting can mitigate flooding by replacing a parking spot with infrastructure that could, contribute to, rainwater runoff training.
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Not it's not just the safety aspect.
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It can beautify your neighborhood.
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It could be a better use of space.
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There could be bike racks that could be moved off of the the and city bike racks that could be moved off of the street parking area that would allow the the sidewalks to be utilized better.
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And generally speaking, we reached a pretty good consensus on that, and we became one of 22 community boards citywide that weighed in in support of
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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the community.