REMARKS
Assistant Commissioner Carry explains enforcement efforts and cites examples from other cities
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Assistant Commissioner Will Carry provides a detailed explanation of current enforcement efforts and cites examples from other cities regarding e-bike registration systems.
- Confirms that NYPD can enforce e-bike regulations without licenses or registration
- Mentions ongoing collaboration with NYPD on enforcement actions in major e-bike corridors
- Cites Toronto as an example of a city that considered and rejected a registration system
- Suggests exploring other regulatory means to hold app companies accountable for pressuring workers to deliver quickly
Will Carry
1:03:25
Sure.
1:03:25
Thank you, commissioner.
1:03:26
Thank you, council member.
1:03:28
As as the commissioner was saying, the NYPD does not require a license and a registration to summon someone for running a red light or, you know, going the wrong way down a one way street on an e bike.
1:03:41
And we are currently working with our partners, chief Rivera and the transportation division on enforcement actions on major e bike corridors, in in the city starting with education but ramping up, to to summonses.
1:03:55
And we handle the education part and obviously, they handle, the enforcement component.
1:04:00
In North America, you know, cities like Toronto have looked at these registration systems as a way to potentially solve this and have decided against doing it.
1:04:09
Because as the commissioner mentioned, it's a lot of resources and it's not required for the NYPD, to, to, to go out and to, to enforce against dangerous behavior.
1:04:21
You know, the theme today is really accountability.
1:04:24
The NYPD can keep people accountable now, but as others on this panel recently mentioned, you know, they don't have infinite resources and there's a lot of things that they're focusing on.
1:04:34
So one of the things that the commissioner talked about in his testimony was, are there other regulatory means that we can use, that we can work with you on the council to hold the app companies accountable, who are placing tremendous pressure on their workers to deliver as quickly as possible and to, yes, cut corners, to run red lights, to ride on sidewalks, and how can that be used as another lever, for accountability?
