STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The New York City Council will not vote on a universal daylighting bill before the end of the year, according to multiple reports. <\/p>\n
The bill in question, Intro 1138<\/a>, would ban parking within a certain distance of any intersection with a crosswalk<\/a>, a process known as daylighting.<\/p>\n Late on Tuesday night, Streetsblog NYC reported that City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, a Democrat representing parts of Queens, would cut the legislation from the agenda of the last City Council meeting for 2025<\/a>. <\/p>\n At the time, a spokesperson for Adams told Streetsblog that the legislative agenda for the meeting was not finalized.<\/p>\n On Thursday, however, Transportation Alternatives \u2014 a nonprofit that advocates for public transit and safer streets \u2014 issued a statement saying that the deadline to advance bills for a City Council vote had passed, and that the universal daylighting legislation had been pulled<\/a>. <\/p>\n Also on Thursday, Borough President Vito Fossella referred to the legislation as \u201cshelved\u201d in a press release that celebrated the move as a \u201chuge win for common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs we have said since Day One, a one-size-fits-all approach was fundamentally inappropriate and irresponsible,\u201d Fossella said in the press release. <\/p>\n \u201cFor now, we thank Speaker Adams for doing the right thing and taking the \u201cUniversal\u201d out of Universal Daylighting,” Fossella, a steady opponent of the bill<\/a>, continued. <\/p>\n The universal daylighting bill isn\u2019t dead, however. <\/p>\n Ben Furnas, executive director of Transportation Alternatives and member of the transportation transition committee for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, indicated that the legislation could be re-introduced under the upcoming administration. <\/p>\n \u201cToday, in response, the Speaker of the City Council has decided to block the universal daylighting bill,\u201d Furnas said in a statement. \u201cWe will keep pushing for universal daylighting under a new City Council and a new mayor, and we won\u2019t stop until every child has a safe walk to school.\u201d<\/p>\n About daylighting<\/p>\n The universal daylighting legislation would ban vehicles from parking within 20 feet of any intersection with a crosswalk, equal to roughly one full car length.<\/p>\n New York state law already outlaws parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk. However, New York City has a special exemption that allows it to set its own parking rules.<\/p>\n Supporters of the bill have referred to studies that say allowing parking within 16 feet of intersections significantly increases the number of pedestrian injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n Proponents also point to the success of daylighting \u2014 among other changes \u2014 in Hoboken, New Jersey, which has not had a single pedestrian death in several years<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fossella and other opponents on Staten Island have said that while they approve of daylighting certain intersections on Staten Island, they oppose the bill\u2019s \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d approach.<\/p>\n Opponents also argue that the New York City Department of Transportation opposes the proposed legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n The DOT has cited a report the agency published in January,<\/a> which found no increase in pedestrian safety at intersections that have daylighting in place without physical barriers installed.<\/p>\n