PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Ronald Colangelo on E-Bike Safety and Regulation
5:41:24
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125 sec
Ronald Colangelo shares his concerns about e-bike safety in New York City, criticizing the lack of enforcement and regulation. He emphasizes the need for safety measures across all boroughs and expresses frustration with the current state of affairs regarding e-bike and scooter incidents.
- Colangelo recounts attending a meeting where police claimed they couldn't help due to lack of laws
- He disagrees with the characterization of e-bike regulation as a racial issue, stating that safety concerns affect everyone regardless of color
- He cites a recent incident where a 3-year-old child was injured by a scooter rider who fled the scene
- Colangelo argues for the implementation of license plates on e-bikes and criticizes the lack of accountability for reckless riders
Ronald Colangelo
5:41:24
Hello.
5:41:24
My name is Ronald Colangelo and Roxy invited me to a meeting by the NYC EBSA, and you go there and you you said she was complaining about the bikes that she mentioned flying around, and then you sit there and you listen to the harbor stories they're telling you.
5:41:42
And you just shake your head like you don't believe this is really happening in New York City.
5:41:46
Then they had the local police department there and they pretty much go, there's nothing we could do, there's no laws, there's nothing we can help you with, and then to have our what is he, the, oh, it's a racist thing.
5:42:03
These things with these bikes, you know, they, you know, they don't see any color, you know, people getting hurt.
5:42:10
You you don't see people's color, you see people just getting hurt.
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Could be anybody.
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And and then when you hear that, you just boil because, you know, it it doesn't people getting hurt.
5:42:22
It doesn't matter what color they are and and and then, oh, they don't wanna have license plates and they don't wanna do this and, you know, it's all these people in the upper Manhattan.
5:42:32
But you want safety for people in every borough.
5:42:34
You want them in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and in the Bronx, where lately we had a 3 year old child run over by a guy on a scooter, knocked her over, lumped her up and took off, dumped the bike, changed his clothes and ran down the street.
5:42:52
They they eventually caught the guy and and the child was gonna be fine, but, you know, it could've went the other way.
5:42:59
You know, instead of having a pine Christmas tree, she could've had a pine box.
5:43:04
So now, you get everybody, oh, license plates license plates.
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So I'm gonna go home, take my license plate off my car, and everybody on my block.
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We're just gonna go up and down one way streets to 80 miles an hour.
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Whatever we hit, we hit and then we do, we get out of the car, we leave it there and go, hey, I'll see you later.
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It's just a sad state of affairs.
5:43:23
And my city councilman, Christie, I guess you didn't want to stay this long and you still haven't fixed the clock.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
5:43:29
Thank you, sir.
