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The city does not have control over two integral ways to reduce traffic crashes on streets across the five boroughs, and Mayor Adams wants to change that.

Hylan Boulevard on Staten Island, Astoria Boulevard in Queens, and Pelham Parkway in The Bronx are among the roadways targeted.

A Manhattan lawmaker wants to give NYC the power to reduce speed limits on city streets, amid a surge in reckless driving that’s contributed to the highest number of traffic fatalities in six years.

An average of 300 people are injured in traffic crashes on 9A each year, one of the highest rates in the city per mile.

The measure would override the citywide 25 mile-per-hour speed limit, but just near the house of the state senator who proposed it.

Oh no, not traffic law enforcement!

According to the City Council, speed was the single greatest contributing factor in traffic deaths that occurred in 2012.

A bid to lower the city's default speed limit from 30 to 25 mph has passed the state Assembly and Senate, leaving it only to be signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, which he is expected to do.

Klein's new bill no longer has the lane limitations, and does not require Community Board approval to lower the speed limit by more than five miles an hour.

City Councilman James Vacca emphasized, "Our streets are not for drag racing."