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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Graffiti removal and other quality of life enforcement initiatives
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Commissioner Lojan outlines various quality of life enforcement initiatives undertaken by DSNY, including graffiti removal and mobile car wash enforcement.
- DSNY now manages the city's graffiti removal program, with an 80% increase in closed service requests
- Enforcement of rules around mobile car washes has begun
- Interagency work continues on removing ghost cars and abandoned vehicles
- Over 10,000 ghost cars have been removed since September of the previous year
- These efforts aim to improve neighborhood cleanliness and quality of life
Javier Lojan
0:22:38
While this work is only just the beginning, we are encouraged by early results about the impact this can have on cleanliness and quality of life.
0:22:46
We are also continuing our interagency work around ghost cars and abandoned vehicles, through which tens of thousands of abandoned vehicles have been removed from our streets, in addition to over 10,000 more ghost cars since the ghost car task force was launched in September of last year.
0:23:01
These are unlicensed vehicles that not only steal public space and toll dollars, but are also untraceable if used in crimes.
0:23:08
And like with containerization efforts, getting this done just helps fight the feeling that Citi doesn't care about your neighborhood.
0:23:14
I assure you we do because it's our neighborhood too.
0:23:18
And with winter now behind us, I am proud to say that you weren't forgotten during snow season either.
0:23:23
If you grew up here, you likely remember the old days of primary, secondary, and tertiary streets.
0:23:28
That kind of division in service level is over.
0:23:30
Thanks to higher headcount and new technology for internal monitoring, every street is on a route, and every route can be dispatched at the same time for snow operations as soon as conditions warranted, a practice we call snow equity.
0:23:42
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