Awesomely named area man Vincent Ferrari is so fed up with drivers ignoring the stop sign on his street in the East Bronx that he recently sat outside and videotaped the looong procession of scofflaws. (41 in under a half hour!) What really gets Ferrari's goat is that City Council Transportation Committee chairman James Vacca (in whose district Ferrari resides) remains focused on cyclist lawbreakers, and is promising a bigger crackdown on bikers this year—including those who pedal through stop signs and red lights. After spending the evening videotaping the motorist scofflaws, Ferrari drives around filming himself ranting about the city's misplaced priorities:

So while the city is running around ticketing people for holding a phone up to their ear, and ticketing cyclists for not stopping on the Greenway in Manhattan, or for going too quickly through Central Park or Prospect Park, this is what's actually the problem. See, people in NYC like to drive fast, but the problem is they like to do it on residential streets. And the other problem is that the police generally don't give a damn. In fact, unless it's the end of the month, your chances of getting a ticket in NYC for the run-of-the-mill traffic violations are nil.

Ferrari would like to see politicians and police prioritize policing drivers, who killed no fewer than 134 pedestrians and 21 cyclists last year. Of course, it's a tad ironic to watch Mr. Ferrari driving around blasting cops for not enforcing traffic laws while he himself appears to be violating traffic laws by operating a handheld device behind the wheel. But it's worth noting that there's a loophole in state law that allows drivers to use a handheld electronic device that is affixed to a surface, which in this case could be the dashboard. [Via Streetsblog]