NATIONAL RESETTLEMENT POLICY AND
PERMISSION FOR MIGRANTS TO GET
WORK IMMEDIATELY.
>>> YOU WILL SOON SEE MORE BRAKE
LIGHTS.
THE MAYOR IS SPEEDING UP THE
PLAN TO LOWER THE SPEED LIMITS.
IN PARK SLOPE THIS AFTERNOON
WITH NEW NUMBERS YOU SHOULD
KNOW.
>> Reporter: SURROUNDED BY THE FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF DEADLY
TRAFFIC CRASHES, GOVERNOR KATHY
HOCHUL SIGNED SAMMY’S LAW.
SPEED LIMITS ON MOST CITY
STREETS WILL DROP FROM 25 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.
>> IT DIDN’T HAVE HAD A HAPPEN.
THESE ACCIDENTS ARE PREVENTIBLE.
IT’S BEEN PROVEN OVER AND OVER
AGAIN.
WHEN YOU REDUCE THE SPEED
LIMITS, PEDESTRIANS CRASHES LEADING TO SERIOUS INJURIES AND
DEATH GO WAY DOWN.
>> Reporter: THE LAW ALLOWS THE
CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO SET LOWER
LIMITS ON INDIVIDUAL STREETS.
AS LOW AS TEN-MILES-PER-HOUR.
ROADS OF THREE OR MORE LANES
OUTSIDE OF MANHATTAN WOULD
REMAIN AT 25 MILES PER HOUR.
THE LAW IS NAMED FOR SAMMY
COHEN. SAMMY WAS 12 WHEN HE WAS STRUCK,
TRYING TO GET A SOCCER BALL,
KILLED BY A SPEEDING DRIVER NEAR
PROSPECT PARK WEST IN 2013.
HIS MOTHER AMY LED A GROUP OF
GRIEVING PARENTS HAD A SPENT YEARS PUSHING FOR THE LAW.
>> FOR ME IT IS AS IF TIME HAS
STOOD STILL FOR A DECADE.
>> Reporter: THE BILL SIGNING
WAS HELD AT MS 51 IN PARK SLOPE WHERE SAMMY WAS A STUDENT.
TWO OTHER STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL
WERE ALSO HIT AND KILLED BY
CARS.
MAYOR ADAMS SAID HE’S BEEN
STANDING WITH SAMMY’S FAMILY
SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.
>> THERE IS NO WAY YOU’RE GOING
IN THE CITY THAT YOU NEED TO BE
SPEEDING THROUGH THE CITY TO GET
THERE.
>> Reporter: BUT FAMILIES
QUESTIONED IF THE MAYOR WILL
ACTUALLY LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT,
GIVEN TWO TRAFFIC CALMING STREET
REDESIGN PROJECTS WERE SCRAPPED.
ZBLO HE WAS IN OUR CORNER WHEN
HE WAS BOROUGH COMMISSIONER.
HOPEFULLY HE’LL REMEMBER THAT
WE’RE STILL FIGHTING. >> Reporter: AND THE FAMILIES OF
THOSE WHO DIED IN TRAFFIC
COLLISIONS SAY THEY HOPE THAT
THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR
WILL MOVE ON THIS AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE. THE LAW TAKES EFFECT JUNE 19th.