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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Elizabeth Denys, Volunteer Co-Chair of Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn Activist Committee, on Universal Daylighting
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Elizabeth Denys, representing Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn Activist Committee, strongly supports Intro 1138 for universal daylighting in New York City. She argues that daylighting is a proven measure to improve street safety and visibility at intersections, potentially reducing crashes by 14-30%.
- Denys highlights the common experience of poor visibility when crossing streets due to parked vehicles, especially large SUVs.
- She emphasizes that most crashes in NYC occur at intersections without daylighting.
- The testimony stresses the potential of universal daylighting to significantly reduce the nearly 100,000 annual crashes in NYC, improving health and wellness for all New Yorkers.
Elizabeth Denys
2:11:27
Hello.
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My name is Elizabeth Dunies, and I'm a volunteer co chair of Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn activist committee.
2:11:33
I'm here today with my colleague and fellow co chair Alex Marano, who I'm sure will testify soon.
2:11:38
Together we work with hundreds of activists in Central Brooklyn to fight for safer streets in our communities.
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We adamantly support intro 11:38 to make universal daylighting the law in New York City.
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Cities around the world are embracing daylighting as a common sense measure to make streets safer and scale green infrastructure to build climate resilience.
2:11:59
It is beyond time that New York City does the same.
2:12:01
All of us use the city streets every day and have friends and family who do as well.
2:12:06
The experience of trying to cross a street and having to peer around a parked vehicle or go halfway into the intersection to see it is if it is actually safe to move forward is very well known.
2:12:17
These conditions, the extremely poor visibility, are simply unsafe.
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And it probably comes as no surprise to any of us that most crashes in New York City happen at intersections without daylighting because of this.
2:12:30
By the time you poke your head around the end of a SUV parked in a corner, cars already so close to you that they practically brush you, and children in New York City are nowhere near being able to see over the large SUVs that are common on our streets today.
2:12:43
Universal daylighting fixes this, adding visibility at intersections that we need in order to cross streets and enter those intersections safely.
2:12:52
It's common sense and we know it works with several studies showing universal daylighting reduces crashes anywhere from 14 to 30%.
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A crash reduction of this amount in New York would greatly improve the health and wellness of our city, reducing the financial and personal cost of crashes for all New Yorkers.
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There are nearly a hundred thousand crashes a year in New York City.
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This has to change.
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No New Yorker should be killed or hurt just for trying to cross the street, and universal daylighting is an essential but proven simple and scalable response that will help to keep New Yorkers safe.
2:13:28
Thank you so much.