BY ERIN DURKIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, June 15, 2015, 5:53 AM
Updated: Monday, June 15, 2015, 5:53 AM
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ERIC JENKSMayor de Blasio vowed "to keep going deeper" with the city's Vision Zero right of way law.
Mayor de Blasio said he won’t ease up on the city’s Vision Zero right of way law and wants to get tougher in enforcing it.
“We’re not going to weaken laws that protect people’s lives,” de Blasio said, amid a push by the Transport Workers Union to make bus drivers exempt from the law, making it a misdemeanor to kill or injure a pedestrian who has the right of way.
As the Daily News reported, only investigators from the Collision Investigation Squad can make arrests under the law. Drivers don’t get charged in many crashes handled by precinct officers because the victim isn’t expected to die.
“We’re going to keep going deeper. We’re going to do more enforcement,” de Blasio said Sunday.
