Alex Morano
7:01:50
Before I start, I just wanna give a hat tip to, chair Brooks chair Brooks Powers and the staff of the committee that have been incredibly patient and showing great endurance listening to everyone's testimony, since since 10 AM this morning.
7:02:04
So really appreciate that.
7:02:06
In that vein, I'll try and keep it short and sweet.
7:02:09
I'm a lifelong New Yorker.
7:02:10
I live in Brooklyn, just a resident of the city, and I'm here to speak against intro 606.
7:02:18
As many have said and as, public advocate Williams very aptly said this morning, right, all the folks coming in to testify about their experience with ebikes and feeling unsafe, that's really valid.
7:02:30
I think we all want safe streets.
7:02:33
No one is gonna is gonna stand against safety.
7:02:36
The the problem here is that this bill, for the multitude of reasons that, have been repeated throughout the day, won't really make our streets safer.
7:02:45
Mopeds already require a license plate, and the the biggest cause of violence on on our streets, cars are already licensed.
7:02:54
And this doesn't do anything to diminish the harm, diminish the harm that is inflicted upon New Yorkers.
7:03:03
What does do that is building out safe systems and safe infrastructure.
7:03:08
And it's been a refrain of of council member Holden that, oh, if we if we just make the bike lanes wider, what are we gonna do when we get to the corner?
7:03:17
There's lots of, right, infrastructure solutions to that as well.
7:03:21
Intro 1138, which would add daylighting, to intersections in New York City is a great way to, you know, increase visibility, and it makes pedestrians, people riding bikes, and drivers safer.
7:03:33
But regulating this, and creating another pathway for policing, New Yorkers of color is is not going to, to to make the street safer for anyone.
