Jackson Chabot
3:40:36
My name is Jackson Chabot.
3:40:37
I'm the director of advocacy and organizing at open plans.
3:40:40
We'll submit longer remarks for the committee's review, and I wanna highlight a few top line points that elevate what other folks have said here today, other folks will say here online later on.
3:40:50
It's not about us.
3:40:51
It's not about me.
3:40:53
We are all here today because we believe in street safety.
3:40:57
We are all here today virtually in community boards, in community organizations that Kevin has mentioned because everyone resonates with this.
3:41:07
Daylighting works for all road users.
3:41:09
It works for drivers, pedestrians, people biking, children scooting, it just works.
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I'm especially proud of the community board conversations that we've had.
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Team members of mine have gone to Rosedale Civics Association in person to speak with folks.
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I've virtually shared information about daylighting with Queens community board thirteen.
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I went up to Bronx community board five.
3:41:33
Our team has worked with so many of these community boards across the city because we know that community conversations are tough and we want to have them with folks.
3:41:42
This resonates with folks because we've been empathetic.
3:41:44
We've listened to their concerns and time and again folks who identify as drivers say, I would rather save the life of my neighbor, of a child crossing the street, in service and in sacrifice of a parking spot.
3:42:00
The DOT's concerns are all about scale and money.
3:42:04
Those are not insurmountable and we've heard that from folks today.
3:42:07
We must implement this.
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We must implement this across the city because as someone said earlier, we have a universal problem and this is a universal solution.
3:42:17
With the remaining time, I'd like to share a gratitude and appreciation to chair Brooks Powers for having this hearing today.
3:42:22
We've been in discussion for many months, and I really appreciate you listening not only to that, but also to the folks here today as well as for council member Juan for pushing to have this heard as well.
3:42:33
This is of the moment, and we are of the moment, and this is what we need.