TESTIMONY
Margaret Forgione, First Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation on Intro 745 and the proposed annual cycling study and data tracking by DOT
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Forgione explains DOT's current practices for tracking cycling data and activity in NYC.
- DOT already publishes cycling ridership and activity data on their website and through open data
- Data is updated continuously rather than annually as it becomes available
- DOT uses various data sources to determine cycling trends and ridership frequency over time
- While there are no counts for each street, DOT uses metrics like crash data, infrastructure plans, community input, and investment priorities to decide where to install bike lanes and make safety improvements
Margaret Forgione
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Next, intro 745 sponsored by council member, Farius.
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This bill would require DOT to conduct and make public an annual psych annual study on cycling activity in the city for the previous year.
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The study would include which streets and bridges are most frequently biked on and recommendations for enhancing bike safety in these areas.
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Cycling is 1 of the best ways for New Yorkers to get around, and more New Yorkers are taking advantage than ever before.
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Bike ridership in New York City has reached an all time high.
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On a typical day, there are 610, 000 cycling trips made in New York City, with cyclist biking 220, 000, 000 trips annually.
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DOT already post cycling ridership and activity data on our cycling in the city webpage, this information is also available through open data.
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DOT updates the website throughout the year as data becomes available rather than annually.
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DOT uses data from local and national sources to determine cyclist trends, how frequently New Yorkers ride bicycles and how that frequency changes over time.
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While we do not have counts for each city street, we have other metrics to determine where we install new bike lanes and where we implement safety improvements to the existing network.
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This includes NYPD crash data, DOT's Green Wave plan, which outlines a full network of local and connector bike facilities, community input, land use, bridge access, street priority, investment areas, and count data.
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We would be happy to discuss this data further with the council.
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