Bram Air on WNYC. By the way, one little addendum to our last segment when I was resetting

which local members from swing districts voted for or against Jim Jordan. I neglected

to mention that George Santos from the North Shore of NASA County in a little bit of Northeast

Queens did vote for Jim Jordan. I guess the best approach to George Santos, no matter what

party you're in these days, might be to ignore him. But that was not my intention. So I left out

George Santos. Yes, Santos, whether this adds to your reasons to vote him out of office or not,

did vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker this week. Meanwhile, Long Island's roads are increasingly

lethal. Last year, traffic fatalities on the island surged to their highest level since 2015,

claiming 243 lives. That's 29 percent more traffic deaths than there were in 2019. And Suffolk

County saw 42 percent increase in fatal crashes last year compared with 2019. So we talk so much

about vision zero in New York City and all those traffic crash statistics. It's a big deal on

Long Island too and it doesn't get that much coverage. The figures I just cited were reported

in Newsday, which has done some excellent reporting on the dramatic surge in traffic deaths on the

island. Newsday also reports the traffic enforcement lags. So as the roads get deadlier for drivers,

pedestrians and cyclists as well, police made fewer DWI arrests and issued fewer summonses in 2022.

Then they did back in 2019, the year we're using as a comparison point. So we'll talk now about what's

causing this increase in traffic fatalities. Why enforcement has not kept pace and how to bring

some of these numbers down? One interesting question for me is, do the approaches to what we might

call vision zero differ in suburban areas than from New York City? Joining us are two Newsday

reporters who've been on their speed, REL Martinez and Lorraine Manjelly. REL, Lorraine,

welcome to WNMC. Glad to have you with us. Thanks for having us. Yeah, glad to be here.

And listeners, our phones are open, Long Island drivers, Long Island pedestrians, Long Island

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