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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-04-30 17:44:36

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders

Here’s what you say:

I am a New Yorker, and I want Speaker Heastie to include the Governor’s proposal for the Stop Super Speeders bill in this budget.
 

Speaker Heastie is feeling the pressure. New Yorkers are calling his office nonstop. Members of Families for Safe Streets are following him around Albany. And this morning, The New York Times published a massive story on our fight to Stop Super Speeders and the rumor that Heastie’s holding up the bill.

Before you click away to read it…
"It's all Carl," one of the sources said. Another source added, "Assembly staff aren't always huge street safety champions. They're worried about doing a policy like this based on camera tickets, not moving violations. But 16 tickets is a really high threshold."

Indeed, data from the New York City Department of Transportation shows that drivers who get 16 or more speeding tickets per year are several times as likely to be involved in a serious crash. There are too many examples in the recent…
A reporter reminded Heastie that last year, his concern with the bill was about "due process."

"Having a concern doesn't mean you don't support things," Heastie replied. "I don't support people speeding, but we really haven't talked about it too much."

But one of our sources said that the idea that the Super Speeders bill hasn't been discussed isn't true: "Senior staff from all three parties in the budget have negotiated this item at length."
@pre@boing.world
2026-05-11 09:30:55
Content warning: ukpol - Starmer election response

Starmer is doing a thing about election results. Is he resigning? :bounceface:
He says the elections were tough, he lost brilliant representatives. He feels the hurt and takes responsibility. Not just for the results, but also for explaining how they'll do better in the years ahead.
Times are dangerous, opponents are very dangerous, if we don't get it right the country will be on a very dark path.
He takes responsibility for navigation in this dangerous world and for not walking away.
Oh right, he's not resigning then. 😦
He says he'll prove his doubters wrong. He's learned a lot! And realizes now we need a bigger response to this unordinary times.
Times demand serious progressive leadership he says, and Zack or Nigel can't provide that. [Citation needed] Only Labour can [Really, come on, citation needed]
He's pleased to be reducing NHS waiting lists and crime, and for some reason is pleased migration is coming down too.
He says he realizes that people don't think Labour cares about them. So that's something.
So his plan to fix things after this election is to talk more about why he's doing things instead of just saying what he's doing.
Right. Sure. That'll help.
He admits millions of people, like his sister, don't get respect or help and are held back because the status quo doesn't work.
He says he's fighting for them but, eh, perhaps he should be doing that thing where he says more about why and how?
He says we need a complete break to take control of energy and defense and fairness (he isn't resigning though, not THAT complete a break)
"Strength Through Fairness, Hope and Urgency" is his plan.
Three concrete examples of the plan:
Sure, about time, not like the Greens are against that.
Doesn't sound like he wants a re-join though, so not really sure what this means. The EU don't allow partial memberships or cherry picking benefits. Some kind of external heart I guess, an outside-body heart pump?
No. He's going to guarantee training or work placements to school leavers.
So in response to likely being unelected next time, he'll nationalize steel (now he's failed to find a corporate buyer anyway), is going to renegotiate with Europe (again, they have no better offers to give), and offer apprenticeships to education-leavers (who are still going to be mostly in debt by then).
Right.
Oh, and he's going to ban more marches too. Almost forgot that.
What a cock.
He did sound a bit passionate at least for a change.
#ukpol #starmer