City officials from various agencies have announced a plan to crack down on drunk driving over the New Year’s holiday.

“Driving drunk, speeding or operating a vehicle in a king of reckless manner is not only a poor decision, it’s also illegal,” said NYPD Chief of Transportation Phil Rivera while speaking during a press conference at One Police Plaza Thursday.

While drunk driving is a problem all year round, New Year’s and Christmas are the holidays when drunk driving related fatalities increase, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

“They will see a very large NYPD presence. You will see officers in marked police vehicles stationed along the highways, avenues and side streets,” Rivera said.

Vehicles will also be located at strips of bars and restaurants, officials said. The beefed up enforcement is on top of the speed cameras and red light cameras that are up and running.

With more than 103 million people expected to hit the road this holiday, city officials said the issue is a top priority over the holiday.

Several state legislators are pushing for tougher drunk driving laws in Albany, which includes bringing the acceptable blood alcohol content down from 0.08% to 0.05%.

“There’s a lot of research out there,” said Assemblymember Jo Ann Simon. “And we know that cognitively at psycho motor functioning wise, at 0.05, people are already showing the effects of alcohol. We know what the levels are. We should just do it.”

While speaking at One Police Plaza, the city’s Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodríguez said the city’s traffic enforcement actions are working, and the city is on pace to have the fewest pedestrian fatalities since the city began keeping record, even as pedestrian fatalities are on the rise nationally.

He attributes the accomplishment to the city’s Vision Zero campaign, which uses engineering, enforcement and education to increase pedestrian safety.

“Mayor Adams, Commissioner Caban, Chief Rivera and I are clear that intersections are sacred places,” Rodríguez said.

Drunk driving deaths are on the rise. In 2021, more than 13,000 people lost their lives to driving while impaired, the most since 2006, according to AAA.

“When you’re out drinking and you have a few cocktails, the last thing you want to do is a math problem to say I had this many drinks, and it’s been this many hours and this is the rate and this is my body weight,” said Alec Slatky, AAA director of government and public affairs Northeast. “No. If you’re drinking, plan to not drive and if you’re driving, plan to not drink.”

With so many modes of public transportation in the city, including rail, bus and ferry, officials said there’s no excuse.