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The Brian Lehrer Show

NYC Mayoral Primary Debate: Traffic and Pedestrian Safety

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The leading Democratic candidates for mayor discuss pedestrian and traffic safety.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

0:13.6

Good morning again, everyone.

0:15.4

We are re-airing most of the Democratic mayoral primary debate that I co-moderated last night with Errol Lewis from

0:22.1

New York One and Katie Honan from the news organization, The City. The audience members,

0:28.0

you've heard reacting during the debate, were people invited by the candidates and the sponsors.

0:34.1

We have one more section to go. Then we'll take calls and text with first priority for anyone

0:39.2

who wants to name something new that you learned in the debate or if it changed your mind on any

0:45.1

issue or any candidate. And you can't start calling now. 212-433 WNYC. Again, first priority to anyone

0:52.8

who wants to name something new that you learned in the debate,

0:56.1

or if it changed your mind on any issue or any candidate, hopefully not just calling to continue to

1:02.1

promote your favorite. 212-433-9692, call or text. And again, especially for those of you

1:10.1

just joining us,

1:11.0

the seven candidates in alphabetical order,

1:13.9

were Adrian Adams, Andrew Cuomo, Brad Lander, Zerunman Dani,

1:17.9

Zellner Myrie, Scott Stringer, and Whitney Tilson.

1:20.7

We have one more section of the debate to go.

1:23.7

It's one that I moderated on the topic of traffic and pedestrian safety.

1:28.3

I want to ask a different kind of public safety question.

1:36.3

Mr. Stringer, you go first in this round.

1:38.3

The city says there were 252 traffic deaths last year.

1:43.3

That's a far cry from zero, as in the name vision zero,

1:47.6

that Mayor de Blasio gave to the city's initiative on this. What would you do then we'll go down

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