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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Nicholas Morano, Biochemist at Columbia University, on Daylighting
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Nicholas Morano, a biochemist at Columbia University and car owner, testifies in favor of daylighting based on his personal experiences witnessing two fatal car accidents in New York City. He emphasizes the violent nature of traffic deaths and the need for easy solutions like daylighting to prevent such tragedies.
- Morano witnessed a particularly gruesome accident in The Bronx where a pedestrian was killed crossing the street outside Montefiore Medical Center
- He describes the incident as a violent death and argues that if daylighting can prevent such incidents, it should be implemented
- Morano, despite being a car owner who loves his car, strongly supports daylighting as a safety measure
Nicholas Morano
3:57:25
Hi.
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I'm Nicholas Moreno.
3:57:28
To be clear, I'm not a lobbyist.
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I'm a biochemist.
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I work at Columbia University.
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I'm also a car owner and to be honest, I love my car.
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I personally have seen two people in New York City killed by cars with my own eyes.
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I've lived here for thirty one years.
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The first of these was a particularly gruesome accident that I can never forget.
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I was going for a run-in The Bronx about ten years ago where I lived at the time and I heard a loud noise.
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I saw a car jump up in the air and I ran over to it and I saw a guy laying across the street.
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There was a doctor nearby, she came over and flipped him over and as she flipped him over, I in an instant realized that he was dead and his skull had been cracked open.
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And I'll never forget that instant of realizing that this man was dead.
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He was crossing a street outside of Montefiore Medical Center.
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It was his first day out of rehab.
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And you know someone earlier was speaking about traffic violence and this death was a violent death.
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It was a terrible death.
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And if we can stop things like this from happening and stop these violent deaths with easy solutions like daylighting then we absolutely have to.
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And so that's why I'm testifying in favor of daylighting today.
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Thank you.