Like most New Yorkers, I am on our streets every day. I walk my kids to school. I head to the subway. I tend to the street trees and sidewalks on my block. I run errands around my neighborhood. I ride the bus to appointments. I stop on the corner to chat with neighbors. I hop on my bike for short trips and drive my car for longer ones. At the end of the day, my family enjoys sitting on a bench and watching everyone else using the street in a myriad of ways. I want to feel and know that we are safe when we are doing all of the above.
Too many people senselessly die on our streets every year. Too little is done to enforce traffic laws and investigate crashes. Too many productive hours are wasted stuck in traffic or waiting for public transit. Too many opportunities for saving lives through improved street design and infrastructure become mired in bureaucratic quicksand. New Yorkers demand that our elected officials do everything they can to calm traffic, and make New York a place where people want to live, work and visit.
StreetsPAC will ensure this happens by informing voters exactly what candidates propose to guarantee that the safety and well-being of New Yorkers, as they go about their daily business on our streets, comes first. StreetsPAC is poised to help the most committed candidates financially and with volunteer power. Together, we will transform our streets into economically vibrant, welcoming, safe public spaces.
While the Department of Sanitation did its usual yeoman's job of plowing and salting the city's streets, too much of that plowed snow ends up creating headaches for pedestrians, and for less able-bodied New Yorkers, dangerous and impassable obstacles.