TESTIMONY
Christopher Leon Johnson on the Need for a Hearing on E-bike Safety
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Christopher Leon Johnson testifies about the pressing need for a city council hearing on the safety of e-bikes. He underscores the urgency by mentioning the tragic death of his fellow journalist, Faisal Khan, in an e-bike-related fire. Johnson criticizes the city council for not taking adequate action, attributing negligence to the influence of organizations like Transportation Alternatives, Street Blog, and Open Plans, which he claims are prioritized over public safety due to their donations from big companies. He passionately calls for a hearing for Bob Holden's bill, arguing that the council has the power and responsibility to address the issue before more tragedies occur.
Speaker 5
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Yeah.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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Came from 44 buildings on 16th, but I'm here now.
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So the ebike is a 4 high vehicle.
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Because a motorized device attached to it, and it makes the device go makes the bicycle vessel.
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It's a it's a motorized vehicle.
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Now I'm a say this right now and I don't wanna piss people off, but I have to because recently a fellow journalist of journalists of mine passed away in the ebike fire.
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His name was Faisal Khan.
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And what's going on is we need to get this bill intro 780 was intro the intro bill with Bob Holden to the city to the city council at Needy.
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We need a hearing.
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Share powerals.
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We need a hearing for Bob Holden's bill because a fellow journalist just passed away, and the city sadly makes a lot of articles about this stuff in a good in a in a good light.
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And the and the big problem we have here is we have a city council committee And I'm not taking all you guys because none of you guys say, y'all really care, but you guys are capped with the transportation alternatives and open plans in Street's block, and this is the reason why that that man's passed away because organizations like Champions National Turners And Street blog and open plans allowed us to happen because all they care about is keeping their donors happy, which is DoorDash, Uber, lift and and all these stupid apps, happy because they donate to to transportation alternatives.
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Now more disco people happening with these e by fires.
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If the the city council, including you, chairman powers, doesn't do the do the right thing and get this bill to the floor.
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I mean, get this bill make this bill a hearing.
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Don't say that, oh, you need thirty four people to get a hearing.
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You could you you you get heroes on five people.
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But all this is about is trying to pea the apps.
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And what happened recently is all the blame for transportation alternatives open plans, lifting the knee stones, and all these stupid other non profits that got the city council committee under their their kick their control.
