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NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Gov. Kathy Hochul tout passage of law allowing city to lower speed limits
NY Post ^ | 05/09/2024 | Haley Brown and Vaughn Golden

Posted on 05/10/2024 7:50:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Traffic safety advocates cheered a new law allowing the Big Apple to lower speed limits on city streets to as low as 10 miles per hour.

The legislation – deemed “Sammy’s Law” in memory of 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein who was fatally struck by a van near his Park Slope home in 2013 – passed as part of the state budget last month.

“This is a joyous but bittersweet moment,” Cohen Eckstein’s mother, Amy Cohen, said as she appeared at a press conference Thursday in Manhattan with Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

“Sammy was fierce and determined. Just a few weeks before he died he was the youngest one to complete a hundred mile bicycle ride,” she said of her son.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: adams; davidpaterson; defundthepolice; ericadams; hochul; kathyhochul; lower; newyork; newyorkcity; speedlimits
Don't these idiots have anything better to do?
1 posted on 05/10/2024 7:50:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

meanwhile, woman are getting raped in the streets. Well done democrats. Well done.


2 posted on 05/10/2024 7:51:14 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Burn more gas ,LOL


3 posted on 05/10/2024 7:51:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

New York + Law = LOL


4 posted on 05/10/2024 7:51:55 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who would be stupid enough to lower a speed limit to 10? I can’t even ride that slow on my bicycle.

Here’s a better idea. Teach people to look both ways before they cross the street.


5 posted on 05/10/2024 7:52:25 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why not Ban all Transport in New York and get it over with


6 posted on 05/10/2024 7:54:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“Sammy’s Law”

I hate these laws. I hate when grieving parents push these laws on everyone.

7 posted on 05/10/2024 8:10:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Yes (/s), th3y are .ikely working on a new law that charges drivers per minute everytime they use a road to get anywhere- hence the “need” to lower the speed limit in order tO increase the time of a vehicle on a road

How soon before they demand manufacturers install time meters on new vehickes?


8 posted on 05/10/2024 8:13:50 AM PDT by Bob434
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Slower than traffic jams? They’d be going backwards.


9 posted on 05/10/2024 8:14:07 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: cyclotic

or tell your children , Do Not Play In The Street


10 posted on 05/10/2024 8:15:22 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Well it's true that auto accidents are up, so it's not obviously a bad idea.

But it might be speculated that accidents are up due to de-policing.

Right?

11 posted on 05/10/2024 8:17:30 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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When you won’t tackle the big problems, you focus on speed limits and the size of soft drinks.


12 posted on 05/10/2024 8:25:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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I have no problem with lower speed limits when applied appropriately - where a lower speed is truly called for.

But, my view of NYC traffic issues is, at least in Manhattan, the mix of vehicle types within the traffic is extremely varied and complex, including bicycles, motorized and non-motorized scooters and motorbikes of every size, two wheeled and three wheeled, and everyone out in and among the regular traffic lanes with not just the cars but trucks of every description. Keeping it all straight, in front, beside and behind you has to make you more of a “defensive” driver than you likely ever have been.


13 posted on 05/10/2024 8:32:49 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That will solve all of the state and city’s problems.

Both of these lefties are not very smart. But they’re loyal to the Democrat oath.


14 posted on 05/10/2024 8:38:48 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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...fatally struck by a van near his Park Slope home...

What was the posted speed limit? How fast was the van going?

15 posted on 05/10/2024 10:10:24 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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passage of law allowing city to lower speed limits...

...raise revenue from hundreds of thousands of new camera-generated tickets.

16 posted on 05/10/2024 12:12:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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This will allow for hidden speed traps. Revenue creator.

Some of us will know of Waldo, Florida. US 301


17 posted on 05/10/2024 1:58:50 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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