If you ride a bike or walk in New York, you already know the danger. We watch for turning and speeding cars, doors that swing open without warning, drivers staring at their phones, and trucks squeezing into bike lanes. We know that even when we do everything right, we are still one bad driver’s actions away from the ER.
Now Albany wants to make it worse.
Gov. Hochul’s latest budget proposal would quietly strip away basic legal protections for people injured by cars — especially pedestrians and cyclists — and dump the costs of traffic violence onto victims, their families, and taxpayers. The people who cause the harm, and their insurance companies get a pass…