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Consideration of community service and engagement efforts for subway surfing prevention
1:18:11
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Council Member Rivera suggests community service as a potential penalty for subway surfing. Shanifah Rieara responds with information about current engagement efforts and plans to address the issue.
- Rivera mentions a conversation with a mother whose son died from subway surfing
- Rieara appreciates the community service recommendation
- MTA is exploring partnerships with nonprofit groups for a wraparound approach
- Engagement with New York City public schools is underway
- A new subway surfing campaign is being developed in conjunction with high school students
Carlina Rivera
1:18:11
And only only because I'm out of time and I was gonna ask you about fare evasion on the bus and how do you stop that without any gate guards Yep.
1:18:19
Considering how vulnerable the drivers are.
1:18:21
But have you considered community service as a penalty for subway surfing only because I've had several conversations with a mom from my district whose son died, and she thought maybe that's another way to get them to understand and be connected with the system in a real way.
Shanifah Rieara
1:18:40
Thank you, Munch.
1:18:41
Love that recommendation.
1:18:42
I mean, and as you know, many of the, as Demetrius mentioned, these are young kids, kids as young as 11, you know, sometimes even the age of even younger.
1:18:55
So, you know, oftentimes these kids are returned to their family and working with, you know, NYPD, we are talking, exploring, even engaging nonprofit groups to see how we can do an entire wraparound approach to ensure that these kids find other means, you know, for fun and engagement versus riding on the subway.
1:19:16
And we are, you know, working with Demetrius' team and other members of the MTA engaging New York City public schools as well.
1:19:24
And we are working on rolling out a new subway surfing campaign in conjunction again with a bunch of high school students.
John McCarthy
1:19:34
I just don't want to leave one question unanswered on delay.
1:19:38
So we're very close.
1:19:39
We're working with EDC on some real estate issues.
1:19:42
So we'll be in contact with you because we hopefully will have good news very soon.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:19:47
Thank you for that.
1:19:48
I'm gonna return to council member Lewis for round two and council member Narcisse follows council member Lewis for round two as well.