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Thursday’s Headlines: Speed-Limiting Tech Edition

State Sen. Andrew Gounardes continues his push to force reckless drivers to install speed limiters in their cars. Plus more news.

Sen. Gounardes announcing his “speed governor” bill last summer.

|Photo: Julianne Cuba

State Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) introduced a bill last year to allow the state to require the installation of speed-limiting devices in the cars of repeat reckless drivers.

Gounardes's bill would force drivers with at least six speeding tickets in a single year to install the tech, which he demo'd up in Albany on Tuesday. The tech would prevent the driver from going more than 5 mph over the speed limit.

You can watch the senator in action behind the wheel of a speed-limited vehicle below.

"My foot is all the way on the gas right now. I floored it and the car was not accelerating," Gounardes says in the clip. "We're at the speed limit. I literally have floored it and cannot go faster. ... My foot is touching the floor right now."

Gounardes also touted the bill in a City & State op-ed with his Assembly co-sponsor Emily Gallagher published on Monday.

In other news:

  • From the Assignment Desk: Speaking of "speed governors," Gov. Hochul will make a "transportation budget announcement” at M.S. 51 in Brooklyn on Thursday.
  • State Sen. Zellnor Myrie is preparing to challenge Mayor Adams in the 2025 mayoral election. (NY Times, Politico)
  • Missing from Myrie's legislative accomplishments: transportation. (City & State)
  • "Too often in this city, we make a crisis out of nothing, and do nothing in the face of crises.” Brooklyn B.P. Reynoso called DOT's timeline to daylight 1,000 intersections "totally unacceptable." (Brian Howald via Twitter)
  • Why it's taken nearly a decade to replace water pipes on two blocks on the Upper East Side. (Gothamist)
  • Former Corp. Counsel Victor Kovner on Randy Mastro: "It is a serious mistake to evaluate a lawyer based on the conduct or views of his or her clients." (City & State)
  • BQE reconstruction work to last through 2028, DOT tells Restler. (amNY)
  • More coverage of the charges against the man who drove into pro-Palestinian protesters in Manhattan. D.A. Alvin Bragg threw out charges against the driver's protest marshal victim and one other demonstrator. (NY Times, Associated Press)
  • DOI to probe NYPD leader's aggressive, politicized use of social media. (Politico)

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