The devastated mom of a 9-year-old boy killed by a taxi is set to push for harsher laws against rogue cab drivers at a City Council transportation sđŞuper-hearing Wednesday.
Dana Lerner, whose son, Cooper Stock, was killed on the Upper West Side in January, is slated to testify in favor the bill, which would suspend a cabbieâs license if he kills or critically hurts a pedestrian after failing to yield.
âI want justice for [Cooper],â LeráŁner told The Post.
The aunt of Boston College student Kelly Gordon â who was killed by a cab earlier this month on her way backđş from an interview with Goldman Sachs â also will attend to support the legislation.
Moreꊾ than 22đŹ bills and resolutions are scheduled to be addressed at the hearing.
Another bill introduced by the committeeâs chairman, Ydanis Rodriguez, will make it easier for police to prosecute bikers andđ drivers who do stunts and ráŚace.
The proposed legislation comes after a man was chased down and beaten by cyclists in front of his family last yđ ear on the West Side.
Other legislation would require side guards on large trucks to keep pedestrians, bikers and road workers from being swept underneaâth.
Most of the legislation is tied to âViđ˛sion Zero,âꌌ Mayor DeBlasioâs plan to end traffic deaths.
One bill, introduced by Councilman Dan Garodnick, would help more commuters get a tax break for using đŤmass transit.