Posted on 02/20/2014 4:19:18 PM PST by grundle
Just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an aggressive plan to prevent traffic deaths, CBS 2 cameras caught the driver of a car carrying the mayor violating a number of traffic laws.
As CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday, the mayor’s two-car caravan was seen speeding, blowing through stop signs, and violating other traffic laws. Kramer reported that if the driver of the lead car, which carried the mayor in its passenger seat, would have racked up enough points to get his license suspended if he’d been ticketed.
When the mayor announced his 62-point safe streets initiative, which includes lowering the speed limit to 25 mph, he said, “We want the public to know that we are holding ourselves to this standard.”
But Kramer reported the mayor failed to practice what he preached Thursday.
CBS 2 crews found Mayor de Blasio’s cars going through a stop sign at a Queens intersection, and that wasn’t the only traffic violation caught on tape.
The safety violations came just two days after the mayor unveiled his traffic safety plan.
“We’ve put a very bold plan before you, and we want the public to know we’re are holding ourselves to this standard,” de Blasio said Tuesday.
The mayor’s two-car caravan violated speed laws and racked up other motor vehicle violations after he held a news conference in Maspeth, Queens on pothole repairs.
The grand total for all four violations, had they been handed out, is 13. Your license can be suspended if you rack up just 11 points.
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Sounds like the mayor’s car needs a governor...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_(device)
He said he was holding himself to the same standard. And then turned that statement into a lie.
Commie Jerk!
Taking driving lessons from Jon Corzine it seems... another phoney lefty and a crook too.
I get that. But i reject even his initial premise.
It’s good to be the King.
New York voters keep proving each and evert day the wisdom of their votes.
Maybe the commie mayor should stick to cabs.
It’s always “Do what I command, not what I do” for these despicable commie creeps, innit?
Mayor Wilhelm is such a piece of liberal garbage. I hope the 74% of moronic New Yorkers that voted for him are realzing the massive mistake they made.
Bloomberg was a nanny stater, but sane on economic policy. This current mayor wants to take it even further. Lowering speed limits. Adding revenue generating speed and red light cameras. Shutting off taxi meters if the cabs are speeding.
What’s next? Giving out jaywalking tickets in NYC? Satan will get elected over this commie if he starts doing that.
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