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DOT Commissioner explains educational campaigns and NYPD coordination
1:24:39
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Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez details DOT's coordination with NYPD and their educational campaigns for bicycle and e-bike safety.
- DOT works closely with NYPD's chief of transportation on joint coordination and education efforts.
- The 'Get Smart Before You Start' campaign educates e-bike users on safe maneuvering.
- Rodriguez mentions 30 cyclist fatalities in 2023, with 23 involving e-bikes.
- DOT focuses on education, while enforcement is handled by NYPD.
Ydanis Rodriguez
1:24:39
We work closely with the chief of transportation of the NYPD.
1:24:45
We have joined coordination between our educational departments at DOT and their entity.
1:24:55
Once in a while, we go out, do education work.
1:24:59
One of the campaign that we did was the one is called Get Smart Before You Start.
1:25:06
And that campaign is educating those who use e bike how to maneuver the e bike.
1:25:12
Because in '23, we lost thirty cyclists and twenty three of them, they were using e bike.
1:25:17
But seven of them, they die Not because they were hit by no vehicle, but they fall in the street.
1:25:22
So we do campaign when it came to the education of peace.
1:25:25
We know that it doesn't matter where we go.
1:25:29
A lot of people asking the question on what are we doing with those who are using e bike that they are so far that they're in the sidewalk.
1:25:37
Definitely we coordinate a lot when it came to the educational piece.
1:25:41
The part related to enforcement is on the NYPD.