Abreu asks DOT how many streets reduced under Sammy's Law
Abreu asks how many streets have had speed limits reduced under Sammy's Law. DOT says it has done over 200 school slow zones this year and expects about 800 by year end, plus a few dozen other corridors. DOT commits to completing all eligible schools by the end of the term.
Going back to Sammy's Law, how many streets have had their speed limits reduced under Sammy's Law?
Well, I can say at least for the schools, and we have more detail here, but this year we've done over 200 of the 15-mile-an-hour slow zones,
and we're expecting to hit that roughly 800 by the end of the year in terms of the school ones.
I know we've done it on other corridors.
A few dozen.
A few dozen other corridors.
And these other corridors, these are neighborhood-based Sammy's Law zones?
I think it's a...
Yeah, a lot of the other uses have been in places where we have things like open streets or shared streets where there is some of that natural traffic calming built in already.
And so we are doing it, as the commissioner said, both.
We're doing all the schools, and that's something we've already committed to.
We're also doing it in these other areas where we compare it with traffic calming.
And sometimes that's on a street basis.
Sometimes it will be on a neighborhood basis.
But we want to really put those together, that it's not, we're not just putting up signs, that we're really delivering a street design for slower traffic.
So you mentioned that you've done 200 so far this year, 800 by the end of the year.
What about next year?
How much do you expect to do by then?
Our commitment is to do all eligible schools, which is the vast majority or almost all.
It's 2,300 school locations, which has about 3,200 schools, and some are co-located by the end of this term.
Got it.
So 800 by the end of this year, no number commitment for next year so far, but you're committing to doing all schools by the end of the term.
Yes.