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Commissioner Rodriguez discusses community opposition to bus lane implementation
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Commissioner Rodriguez provides specific examples of community opposition to bus lane implementation in various areas of New York City, highlighting the challenges DOT faces in meeting Streets Plan goals.
- Rodriguez mentions a proposal for a bus lane on Broadway from 150th to 225th Street facing opposition from community board members and business owners
- He discusses opposition to a bus lane on 181st Street, despite support from the local council member
- The Commissioner addresses misconceptions about bus lanes negatively impacting small businesses
- Rodriguez emphasizes the importance of bus lanes for working-class people who rely on public transportation
Ydanis Rodriguez
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Yep.
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It it sure.
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And of course, I always say I never talk as I had the whole truth of anything.
0:53:04
So but I believe and we can double check on the number, but I believe that it is stated that the camera enforcement also can be added and no can is part of counting how many miles we have done it.
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Our conversation have been always been about new protectables.
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Yes, I want to do more.
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And and I think that even this day, like you know, I know that the my great friend, council member de la Rosa, you know, who, you know, we had done a lot of things together in my previous role, in her previous role.
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Like right now we had a proposal to do a bus lane up Broadway from one fifty feet to two twenty fifth.
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But it not only what we want to do is that when we go and meet with the community board and we hear from some members of community board, we hear from some business owner, we have to navigate with that reality that we want to do like three miles of bus lane there.
0:54:01
And I know that we have conversation.
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The council member being open.
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But also we know that when we go to my old district that I used to represent, where I leave, there's a lot of opposition.
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So my thing is, yes, I want to And I have those three mile count as expectation that we can do this year.
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But I also know, and I don't want to put the council member on the spot with you because I know that's a reality that we face.
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It's not only what we want to do, but it's also how the local business, how so.
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And there's misperception.
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When we did the Boss Lane at 180 First, and I appreciate also her support because I live there.
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I still keep in touch with my district.
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Some people didn't want to do the bus lane at 180 First.
0:54:45
Shit, the council member was supporting that.
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And all the advocate.
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But we also know that from community board and other people.
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They say we don't want that bus lane at 180 First.
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And they came out with the whole story that bus lanes are killing small businesses.
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What we have found out through SBS and all the study is that a bus lane doesn't have a negative impact in in a small business.
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Many of those consumer who go to the buy in the map and publish store, they use the bus lane.
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They use the buses.
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So I I again, I agree with you.
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Think that to build more protected bus lane is critical.
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1,000,000 people are using our buses every day.
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Most of them they are working class people.
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Most of them they don't have the time.
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They struggle to pay the bill.
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They are not the one that's speaking loud in our community board and I think that it is important