Q&A
Lessons learned from e-scooter pilot program phases
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Commissioner Rodriguez and Assistant Commissioner Carry discuss the lessons learned from the first two phases of the e-scooter pilot program and their implementation in the current phase 3 in eastern Queens.
- The program has seen safe expansion with over 5 million users of e-scooters
- An evaluation report was conducted after the first phase, looking at usage, safety, and street organization
- The combined service area now covers 1.2 million New Yorkers
- Since launch, there have been 6.1 million trips and 260,000 active users
- In Queens specifically, there have been 650,000 trips and over 40,000 new accounts created since the program's expansion
Ydanis Rodriguez
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Yep.
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I I will start answering then.
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Assistant commissioner Will Kerrick can also add all the information.
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As you said, 2020 council member Fernando Cabrera, council member Rafael Espinal, carried those bills, and I worked with them when I used to chair the Committee of Transportation.
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We heard from them that they wanted to bring scooters in area that Citibank was not going.
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We saw a a safe expansion of eScooter.
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And that's why, as I shared before, when you look at what how we what we learned in the Bronx and now how we're expanding to your districts and other part in Queens, what we know is that there's more than 5,000,000 users of your scooter.
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But, it Will can add more information.
Will Carry
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Thank you, commissioner, and thank you, chair, for the question.
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After we did the, first phase of the program in the Bronx, we did an evaluation report.
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And we looked at a number of different factors.
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We looked at, how often the scooters were used.
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They were quite heavily used.
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And we had, tens of thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of trips.
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And we looked at, safety.
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And, our conclusions were that the operation of the program was quite safe.
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And then we looked at issues, in terms of organization in the street, including our use of corrals, which we found, often helped to sort of better organize the street and make sure that
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scooters were, e scooters were properly parked.
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As the commissioner, mentioned in his testimony, the the combined service area now covers 1,200,000 New Yorkers.
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We have about 260,000,
Will Carry
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active users who've taken 6,100,000 trips.
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Since the program was launched in Queens this year, we've had 650,000 trips, and over 40,000, new accounts, created from residents of the new expansion area.
