Q&A
Safety concerns related to e-scooter parking on sidewalks and streets
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Council Member Brooks-Powers raises concerns about safety hazards created when e-scooters are left on sidewalks and streets. Commissioner Rodriguez and Assistant Commissioner Carry discuss DOT's response to these concerns.
- DOT acknowledges the concerns raised by the speaker, council members, and the community
- The department is focusing on installing as many corrals as possible for organized scooter parking
- DOT aims to transition to a model where scooters are picked up and dropped off in designated corrals
- To date, over 100 parking corrals have been installed in Queens and 150 in the Bronx
- DOT plans to install another 500 corrals across the two service areas in 2025
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:22:07
Thank you.
0:22:07
The speaker and other elected officials call for the poorest out of concern about safety hazards that are created when e scooters are left on sidewalks and streets, bless you, which can obscure pedestrians and other road users.
0:22:22
How is EOT and the scooter vendors responding to these important concerns?
Ydanis Rodriguez
0:22:29
Yeah.
0:22:30
It I what I I and Eric, you know, as in his role as a assistant commissioner on planning, he also cannot and will sue.
0:22:38
But what I can say is that we heard the speaker, we heard the council members, we heard the community.
0:22:46
What we are saying is about the work that we are doing right now with installing as many corals as possible.
0:22:54
We're in stable thinking about a program that's gonna be based about I can I or whoever can go and get this scooter and drop in any place that I want?
0:23:03
The model must be that the scooter will be pick up, will be dropped up in those corals that we are installing.
Will Carry
0:23:11
And just to provide some, numbers there, chair, we to date, we've installed over a 100 of these parking corrals in Queens and a 150 in the Bronx.
0:23:21
And in 2025, we were aiming to install another 500 across the two service areas.
0:23:27
I'm happy to provide further information on specific locations.
