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Testimony by Nina Sabghir, Member of Families for Safe Streets, on Street Safety and Daylighting
2:25:34
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Nina Sabghir, a member of Families for Safe Streets, testified about the need for daylighting and traffic calming measures to improve street safety. She shared her personal experience living on a dangerous street and criticized the DOT for not implementing safety measures.
- Sabghir is a nurse practitioner in her seventies, legally handicapped, and has a son who was hit by a car
- She described visibility issues on her street due to cars parking up to the corner and lack of traffic calming measures
- She argued against the DOT's approach of waiting for fatalities before implementing safety measures
Nina Sabghir
2:25:34
Good afternoon.
2:25:35
My name is Nina Sadgier and I am unfortunately a member of Families for Safe Streets.
2:25:43
And, I have a son who was also hit by a car.
2:25:48
I'm a registered nurse and nurse practitioner still in practice in my well into my seventies.
2:25:54
I'm also legally handicapped.
2:25:56
I do drive as well as walking and bicycling when I'm able to walk.
2:26:02
I live on a one way street that opens into a two way street.
2:26:07
There is no traffic calming whatsoever on the street.
2:26:11
Cars park right up to the corner.
2:26:15
Visibility is terrible.
2:26:17
And time and again, we have asked the DOT to please put in traffic calming measures, other measures that would make that corridor, that that five block corridor in Brooklyn safer as I see people struggling to get their cars out into the two way street.
2:26:40
I see families with young children.
2:26:43
There's a senior center right on the corner, and everybody is struggling to get across safely because there's no daylighting, there's no visibility, there's no traffic calming whatsoever.
2:26:58
It's typical of the DOT to abdicate their responsibility with the claim that, well, nobody's gotten killed yet.
2:27:07
I ask you, would you like to volunteer your child or your spouse or your mother or your father or even yourself to to be the first one?
2:27:18
And why do we have to wait for that to be the marker for whether something should be done to make our streets safer?
2:27:27
To claim that daylighting will not make things safer, again, another abdication of responsibility, another unwillingness to move.
2:27:37
Thank you.