Wednesday Headlines: Safety Survey Edition
You may remember reading about officials in Rochester weighing the possibility of automated traffic enforcement to rein in out-of-control drivers. The larger region is weighing street safety as well.
Monroe County is continuing to solicit public input on its active transportation plan that will increase safety and infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists. The plan will tie in with the county’s Vision Zero plan as well as Rochester’s.
The survey is open until Aug. 13 and available here.
Elsewhere in the Empire State:
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) stopped in Buffalo as his party tries to take back Congress. (The Buffalo News)
- Binghamton is joining the cities rethinking their contracts with Flock Safety. (WSKG)
- In Southold Town, the license plate readers are even getting vandalized. (Newsday)
- Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon wants to compromise with county legislators and put the question of term limits to a ballot proposition. (Central Current)
- Micron is continuing to staff up for its Clay, New York facility, and heavy truck traffic has arrived. (Syracuse.com)
- Republican congressional nominee Anthony Constantino doesn’t see anything wrong with selling products linked to alleged human trafficker Andrew Tate. (The Times Union)
- Dutchess County Comptroller Dan Aymar-Blair issued subpoenas to the county’s Republican and Democratic election commissioners as he tries to audit the Board of Elections’ payroll process. (The Times Union)
- The Department of Justice found payroll fraud at the state Museum in Albany. (The New York Times)
- A new poll has Gov. Hochul ahead in the gubernatorial race by just 4 points. (The New York Post)
- State GOP Chair Ed Cox claims that Court of Appeals Chief Justice Rowan Wilson is packing the court system with liberals. (The Post)
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