CM Sanchez challenges Deputy Commissioner Beaton on daylighting cost discrepancy
Justin Sanchez confronts Beaton about conflicting daylighting cost estimates: $10,000 per intersection versus $3 billion total for 40,000 intersections. Beaton explains the discrepancy is per location versus per intersection with eight potential daylighting spots.
Thank you, Chair Lee.
This is a question for Commissioner Beaton.
Deputy Commissioner Beaton, in April of last year, you testified under oath to this committee that as it pertains to the cost of daylighting, 10,000 is a very round rule of thumb number for a single intersection.
You further emphasized this cost to Streetsblock saying, the cost of hardened daylighting infrastructure comes at about 10,000 per location, which includes labor and regular maintenance.
However, in that same hearing, your submitted testimony to the committee stated universal hardened daylighting would cost in the neighborhood of $3 billion.
New York City has 40,000 intersections, Mr.
Beaton, at a cost of $10,000 per intersection that comes to $400 million.
Is this just a simple case of bad math or a huge disagreement you have with yourself?
So the $10,000 was per location.
An intersection has four corners.
Each corner can have two sides that are daylit.
So I think that that's the discrepancy is it's not per intersection, it's per location.