"Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and the Adams administration are colluding to kill a long-awaited bill to ban parking near all intersections for better visibility - a dramatic, lame-duck gambit that street safety advocates blasted as an egregious form of political gamesmanship. The top city lawmaker is backing a Department of Transportation revision of a popular bill, thereby preserving the status quo that allows drivers to park at street corners, directly next to crosswalks, preventing pedestrians and drivers from seeing each other."
"The maneuver targets Council Member Julie Won's universal daylighting bill, Intro 1138, which would prohibit parking within 20 feet of all city intersections, and would require DOT to add hard infrastructure at 1,000 intersections a year to keep illegal parkers out. DOT officials recently sent the Council a counter-proposal that required the agency to daylight 100 locations a year and removed the hardening requirements entirely. The changes duplicate legislation from 2023 that forced the agency to daylight 100 intersections a year."
City Council leadership and the Department of Transportation revised a proposed universal daylighting law that would ban parking within 20 feet of all intersections and require hard infrastructure at 1,000 intersections annually. The DOT counterproposal lowered the requirement to daylight 100 intersections a year and removed hardening mandates, mirroring 2023 legislation. The revision also redefined high-priority intersections as those within 660 feet of a school, halving the state's quarter-mile school-zone definition. Street-safety advocates described the changes as a major setback that preserves obstructed sight lines and reduces protections near schools and crosswalks.
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