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Using data to inform industry practices and consider design solutions
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Council Member Avilés emphasizes the importance of using collected data to inform and push industry practices towards more responsible behavior, as well as to consider design solutions for environmental issues.
- Data should be used to make industry behave responsibly, beyond just profit-making
- Design efforts, such as addressing 53-foot tractor trailers, should be considered alongside enforcement
- The city should leverage its market power of 8 million people to shift industry practices
- There's a need to balance economic viability with ensuring public health
- Avilés commends the DEP team for their courageous and novel approach to addressing air quality issues
- Commissioner Aggarwala acknowledges the team's efforts and Deputy Mayor Joshi's championship of the initiative
Alexa Avilés
1:42:03
Yeah.
1:42:04
And I I I will just finally add.
1:42:06
I mean, I think, you know, the data here is important in both elements, but using the data to make sure that we are both informing and pushing the industry to do what is responsible other than just making profit at our well, sacrificing our health and wellness.
1:42:29
So it's important to use that data to to make the industry behave.
1:42:33
Certainly not around a moratorium, but to protect people.
1:42:37
But also consider design efforts.
1:42:40
Right?
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I mean, I think this issue of the 53 foot tractor trailers, If there is if if our enforcement mechanisms don't seem to quite be working, I think there's some design elements here that if you can't drive it, interesting.
1:42:57
You're gonna choose something else.
1:42:59
So there there are whole, I think, other ways we should be looking at it.
1:43:03
And just shifting the market and using the incredible market power of this city of 8,000,000 people, these sectors have grown and there are billions of dollars in profit because people are using them.
1:43:19
And so I think we have a responsibility to also utilize our market power and our regulatory frameworks to shift, to make sure that we are being responsible for New Yorkers, both maintaining our economic, viability at the same time, making sure we're all alive to make purchases.
1:43:41
So, I really appreciate the the work certainly that you have been doing.
1:43:46
And I gotta give you a special shout out, Don, because I know you have been working tirelessly on this issue.
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And I know my staff has has been working with you very closely, so I just thank you and your whole team.
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It's very difficult work, and it's very courageous because we don't see this happening in other places, and we need to do it for our health and wellness.
1:44:13
So I just wanna thank you to this team for being brave and and looking at it using a new tool that is potentially novel but could really have a serious impact in New York City.
Rohit Aggarwala
1:44:29
If I may, council member, I first of all, I'll echo my my deep gratitude to Don and to Julie for all of their this their work on it.
1:44:38
I'd also just like to recognize that deputy mayor Joshi has absolutely championed this since when we first started talking about whether we would endorse it in Plan YC.
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The fact that we are here and doing this seeker report is a great testimony to her work.