Speed camera advocates hold 24-hour vigil outside Golden’s office
Transportation safety advocates fighting to keep speed cameras operating on city streets before a July 25 deadline turns the cameras off took their case directly to State Sen. Martin Golden by holding a 24-hour vigil outside the Republican lawmaker’s Bay Ridge office.
Members of Families for Safe Streets and Transportation Alternatives stood on the sidewalk outside Golden’s district office at 7408 Fifth Ave. starting at 9 a.m. on June 28 to put public pressure on Golden to convince his GOP colleagues to support speed cameras.
“He’s the target because he’s the one who can get it done. I don’t understand why he won’t,” Amy Cohen, a founding member of Families for Safe Streets, told this newspaper.