Mamdani’s NYC ‘faculty security’ scheme is just – Latest News
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push for more and harsher “school speed zones” is as bare a theft as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “anti-congestion” tolls.
By 12 months’s finish, he’ll add 800 more zones to the prevailing 500 and drop the restrict from 20 or 25 miles-per-hour to a glacial 15 mph.
And he means to have 2,300, all at 15 mph, by 2030.
Each zone can embody every thing within a quarter-mile of a faculty. With 3,200 metropolis colleges (public and personal) that’s two-thirds of all metropolis streets, together with 87% of Manhattan, 82% of Brooklyn and 74% of The Bronx.
Car-hating progressives have agitated for decrease velocity limits for years, however doing it citywide “in one fell swoop,” says the mayor, requires City Council approval; the council factors out he can do it himself, although it’ll imply more work: Maybe he just desires to unfold the blame?
Crucially, this opens the door to a huge growth of the loathed speed-camera automated ticket, which beneath state law can solely be carried out in class velocity zones (plus “highway work zones”).
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The gross sales pitch: Speed cameras could make the streets safer for youths — however why then did town make enforcement 24/7?
Not many schoolchildren are ambling home at 2 a.m.
Hint: Speed cams aren’t solely about calming site visitors: The current zones usher in about $300 million a 12 months.
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Double or triple the world coated, with even decrease limits, and City Hall might simply bleed drivers for an additional billion bucks a 12 months.
Has anybody talked about that this mayor desires a lot more income to spend?
Nobody desires children to dodge freeway site visitors, however that has nothing to do with the mayor’s priorities right here.
He’s grabbing money wherever he can — and justifying it by demonizing his targets, on this case, these “selfish” car drivers.
