Zohran Mamdani ditches campaign pledge on NYC intersections in latest flip-flop
NY Post
Mayor Zohran Mamdani ditched one of his sound-bite campaign pledges as his administration apparently dealt with the reality of implementing a pro-pedestrian parking policy — leaving transit advocates in the crosshairs.
Department of Transportation Mike Flynn admitted at a Tuesday City Council meeting that the administration was not following a “universal daylighting” approach at the Big Apple’s 40,000 intersections — in direct contradiction to the democratic socialist’s campaign promises.
“Daylighting” is a pro-pedestrian initiative that bans parking near crosswalks, but Flynn said the city would look at intersections on a case-by-case basis.
“Daylighting is definitely one important tool but as a few of us have mentioned earlier, we always take a holistic approach, and we really look at the unique conditions and context of each location,” he said.
Mamdani had declared at a February mayoral forum that “we deserve to have all [intersections] daylighted.”
Enacting universal daylighting could shed 300,000 parking spots across the Big Apple and cost the city up to $3 billion dollars.
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