Felipe Castillo urges evidence-based street safety measures

Hello, can you hear me all right?

We sure can.

All right, great.

Thanks so much, Majority Leader Avereo.

Like you said, I am one of your constituents.

Thanks for having this panel.

I hope you've been brushing up on your French.

Merci beaucoup is all I know, my friend.

Okay, sounds good.

So my name is Felipe Castillo.

I am a resident of Harlem and I'm active in Community Board 9 in Manhattan, among other organizations.

I'm not speaking for them today.

I am going to say that road violence is preventable and I urge...

The city council to implement the evidence-based measures that have been discussed today to decrease morbidity and mortality.

Among them, I would say installing universal hardened daylighting, implementing Stammy's law, especially on the entirety of the island of Manhattan.

Nine out of 12 community boards have requested that the speed limit be lowered to 20 miles an hour.

So might as well go for all.

Of the island of Manhattan.

Implement the Stop Super Speeders program that has evidence behind it, and installing low traffic neighborhoods, redesign the roadways with priority for the most vulnerable users,

not for the storage of a private vehicle on a public roadway.

And these measures are all measures that have the potential for a high impact effect at a low cost.

And lastly, I want to support all the distributors, especially those who attended today and are fighting for the protected and exclusive bicycles.

Muchas gracias a ellos y a ellas y continúen en esa lucha.

Que los apoyamos.

Gracias, Felipe.

De nada.

Going back to Tal Litwin, are you on Zoom?

Tal, you're unmuted.

All right.