Won on mayor's campaign position on universal daylighting

Yes, we understand that, which is why we were outside with over 100 advocates who have been calling year after year because hundreds of people die due to lack of daylighting.

With cars turning at intersections, which I know, Commissioner, you already know, because we've discussed this, many people have discussed this with you before you took this.

your position and we understand that it's going to be $10 million for a thousand intersections.

So help us understand what you mean by location.

Do you mean location means four corners?

Why are you debunking what $10 million costs us?

To daylight.

Maybe I can try to clarify, if I may.

So every intersection, typical intersection, has four corners, right?

There's two sides to each of that corner as the streets come together.

So if you can visualize that, there are actually eight, as Commissioner Beaton said, there's eight potential places that you can do daylighting.

So when we say we can daylight one corner or one intersection for 10,000, that's simply one part of the eight, and that may be inadequate, right?

In order to truly address safety at that intersection, depending on what our engineers feel would be beneficial there.

That's why the 10,000 is oversimplifying the conversation.

And it would help, you know, and I know we're trying to take care of some of this here, but if you have time at another time, we'd love to sit there just like with a plan of a few streets and go through that with you.

So I have a few follow-up questions.

For daylighting, can you help me understand how do you qualify what you deem as daylightable?

Help me understand that.

What are your qualifications to determine?

Because we went from the mayor, Zoram Amdani, when he was an assembly member, he stood with me when a six-year-old was mauled by a car in Astoria.

At Domaine de Dunes,

daylighting rally and he demanded that we daylight every single intersection and he's been on record multiple times calling for universal daylighting and now he has taken office and we're now hearing the opposite of that from you all

so we want to understand what do you qualify as somewhere that should be daylit because you are saying that you no longer believe in universal daylighting despite all of the times that the mayor has gone on record in support of universal

Thank you, Councilmember.

I just want to be clear that we share the same goal of eliminating traffic fatalities, and we absolutely see daylighting as a key piece of that.

We are all for figuring out and eager to work with you and other partners to understand the most effective and fast way to expand the use of daylighting.

I just want to be clear on the record about that.