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Won demands dollar amount for hardened daylighting in budget

New York City Council · May 29, 2026 · starts 1:12:31 · 1 min 27 sec

Won asks for specific dollar amounts per fiscal year for hardened daylighting and how many intersections are budgeted. Flynn says they're confident they can exceed prior output but won't commit a specific line item.

Mike Flynn

So just to the point that Deputy Commissioner Beaton was making, there's no line item, and we're not looking at it as one piece.

Mike Flynn

Every time we do a project, we'll make sure if daylighting is an appropriate treatment.

Julie Won

So then help me understand, what civic street design elements are you looking at?

Julie Won

And can you help us understand what the criteria is exactly so that we can understand your criteria for your evaluations of which locations you will have hardened daylighting then?

Mike Flynn

Sure, and I just want to start by saying that we're very confident in our ability with the budget that we have now to exceed the prior administration's level of output of hardened daylighting.

Mike Flynn

As Deputy Commissioner Beaton said, the bike lanes, the bus lanes, all the other Vision Zero work we do, we're making hardened daylighting a standard part of our approach.

Mike Flynn

The nuance is just that there are cases, you know, we look at the crash data, and there's other treatments in addition to daylighting that are sometimes even more effective.

Mike Flynn

So we really value the flexibility to use daylighting and or other approaches based on the situation.

Julie Won

So we would like to understand how many dollars are going to be spent.

Julie Won

For each fiscal year since you gave us a calculation of how much it will cost.

Julie Won

In return, we would like to understand how many intersections are in your budget for this fiscal year.

Julie Won

I'll turn it over back to the chair, but I would like to come back for a second round of questions.

Julie Won

Thank you.

Linda Lee

Okay, great.

Linda Lee

Councilmember Lewis followed by Councilmember Wong.