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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."