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Safety concerns and strategies for micro-mobility devices
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires about the NYPD's strategy for addressing safety concerns related to micro-mobility devices like e-bikes and scooters. NYPD representatives explain their two-pronged approach of education and enforcement, including the distribution of multilingual palm cards and targeted enforcement efforts.
- NYPD distributed over 70,000 educational palm cards to e-bike and micro-mobility operators
- Enforcement is used in conjunction with education to ensure compliance
- Council members express interest in obtaining palm cards to share information in their districts
Yusef Salaam
0:24:44
What is the current strategy for addressing safety concerns that relate to the dangerous use of micro mobility devices such as e bikes and scooters?
0:24:53
You know, are there precincts also where collisions of fatalities involving involving two wheel vehicles are particularly concentrated?
0:25:01
And if so, what is being done to address the issue in those locations?
Josh Levin
0:25:11
So I'm gonna take the first part of that question like what are we doing?
0:25:14
I think it's a two pronged approach.
0:25:17
Right?
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There's education and there's enforcement.
0:25:20
We're not just stopping and summoning people.
0:25:22
Right?
0:25:23
Although that is a component of it because sometimes people just only respond to a fine, right, before it gets through to them.
0:25:30
But we're also doing affirmative educational outreach.
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And so, you know, we have this palm card flyer the chief mentioned.
0:25:37
It's in all the different languages, and we handed out over 70,000 of them to ebike and micro mobility operators in a specific corridor.
0:25:46
Because if somebody on an e bike is driving recklessly, it's a danger to themselves, let alone every other pedestrian.
0:25:54
And so the goal isn't necessarily enforcement.
0:25:57
The goal is compliance.
0:25:58
Sometimes you do that with education, and we've done that.
0:26:01
Right?
0:26:01
But we also do goes hand in hand with enforcement to make sure that people actually are complying with these regulations.
Yusef Salaam
0:26:20
Thank you.
0:26:21
Actually, was I was wondering if the palm cards that you're talking about would also be something that council members can also get access to so that we can share that information also within our districts because we see things and we were very concerned about these types of things as well as are the people the the people that we serve.
Olufunmilola "Lola" Obe
0:26:42
We definitely will.