PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Don Reid, Member of a Neighborhood Association Safety Committee, on E-bike Safety and Identification
5:14:18
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Don Reid, a resident of Midtown East and member of a neighborhood association safety committee, testified in support of e-bike regulation, emphasizing the need for identification measures such as license plates. He stressed the importance of being able to identify e-bike riders involved in accidents or incidents.
- Expressed concern about increased fear levels in the city due to e-bike-related incidents
- Highlighted the root cause of the problem as the inability to identify e-bike riders who commit offenses
- Suggested implementing license plates for e-bikes as a solution, opposing the idea of a task force as "kicking the can down the road"
UNKNOWN
5:14:18
My my name is Don Reid.
5:14:21
I live in Midtown on the east side, and, I wanna thank, my chairperson and committee person, Farrias Voorstein.
5:14:38
I'm gonna be pretty quick.
5:14:42
I'm on the safety committee of a neighborhood association.
5:14:47
I belong to a senior center, and I attend meetings at the 17th precinct for the community.
5:14:56
I concur with everything has been said here.
5:14:58
And it's, you know, the fear level has gone up far more in this city than we can tolerate.
5:15:07
And now is the time to do something.
5:15:11
I'm not gonna repeat the horror stories that are referred to or what's in my testimony.
5:15:17
I'm just gonna go down there to the root cause.
5:15:20
And the root cause is simple.
5:15:23
If you can't if you're not a you can do anything you want if nobody knows who you are.
5:15:27
Right?
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I can, nobody can identify me.
5:15:32
I can, be that guy that, that assassin.
5:15:37
But, chairman, I will say that and I I agree with the police report.
5:15:47
You gotta be able to identify somebody or else the report doesn't get made.
5:15:51
They don't do anything.
5:15:54
So what's the solution?
5:15:55
Very quickly, on these ebikes, you got to have a license plate.
5:16:00
And if you don't have a license plate, poof, they're gone.
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And every story I heard here that nobody no ebike did us stopped and tried to help, they just poof.
5:16:14
Nobody knew who they are.
5:16:17
So I I would ask, instead of kicking the can down the road and doing a task force and I'm sorry, I don't mean to do that doing kicking the can down the road as a task force.
5:16:28
We need to get something, and this is the best thing on the table now, chairman.
5:16:33
Thank you.
5:16:33
I've heard nothing.
5:16:34
I've heard nothing.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
5:16:35
Sir, I'm sorry.
