ALBANY — Six times he has traveled from the city to Albany to lobby for a crucial safe streets bill. And six times, he’s had his hand shaken, his smile returned, his back patted.
And now, Darnell Sealy-McCrorey, whose daughter Niyell McCrorey was killed by an SUV driver on the Upper West Side last year, knows what it feels like to be betrayed by Albany pols.
Over the weekend, we learned that the legislature is not going to pass the Stop Super Speeders bill this year. The reasons are as numerous as they are incomprehensible (full story here), especially considering that the bill is the ultimate no-brainer of politics: It would require drivers who have racked up six speeding tickets in any 12-month period to have speed-limiting devices installed in their cars. It wouldn’t take away their cars. It wouldn’t deprive them of their ability to drive…