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Three years after a horrific train accident killed six people in Westchester County, legislators are demanding the state Department of Transportation release an overdue study required by a law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo regarding safe railroad crossings across New York. Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, D-Greenburgh, and Sen. David Carlucci, D-Clarkstown, […]
The National Transportation Safety Board has recently issued a recommendation to states to lower the blood alcohol content that constitutes drunk driving. Assistant Assembly Speaker Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, has introduced legislation (A.2302-a) to lower a driver’s blood alcohol concentration level from .08 percent to .05 percent when determining if the […]