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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Constance Lesold, Member of the Public
4:47:42
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3 min
Constance Lesold, a member of the public involved with senior citizens centers, testifies about various issues including e-bikes, ICE threats, fare evasion, and graffiti on public artwork. She acknowledges some improvements in transportation issues but emphasizes the need for enforcing traffic laws and protecting community artwork.
- Expresses concern about e-bikes, bicycles, and motorcycles, noting some improvement in recent years
- Discusses ICE threats and their impact on communities, including an incident at a church in Newburgh, NY
- Highlights the need for enforcing traffic laws for all, regardless of documentation status
- Mentions issues with fare evasion and suggests the transit authority is charging too much
- Raises concerns about graffiti damaging artwork on the Franklin Avenue shuttle
Constance Lesold
4:47:42
My name is Constance Lesold, and I'm not officially representing anyone today.
4:47:48
But, as you know from my prior testimony, chairman Brannon, I'm very involved with senior citizens centers, and I would have hoped to have with me my partner at nine sixty six, Grace Haregood, senior center of the Fort Greene Group, because we had begged for help from the Department of Transportation in regard to the e bike and the bicycles and the motorcycles and everything else issues.
4:48:30
And we didn't get any answer from the Department of Transportation.
4:48:35
But I do have to say that the problems have somewhat, it would appear to this pedestrian and others have improved over the last years.
4:48:52
So I have to look at Jessica Tisch's testimony seriously.
4:49:01
I am very sympathetic to the community that is faced with ICE threats, and in some ways that includes all of us.
4:49:15
I just got a request last night to help a church in Newburgh, New York where ICE went into a service without notice and took out six people.
4:49:32
That church is hoping to organize churches.
4:49:35
I just say this because I am very involved with a lot of issues around ICE and I am sympathetic, but I am not sympathetic to the idea that documented or undocumented workers have the right to go through a red light and endanger the lives of the pedestrians.
4:50:00
No.
4:50:01
Everybody has to go by the laws and if it And if there is no consequences when they don't, we don't get any improvement.
4:50:15
I just have to say that the fare evasion issue, the transit authority is charging too much for the city.
4:50:26
And whatever you can do on these issues within the budgetary way do it.
4:50:38
And with the Franklin Avenue shuttle, please look at the issues of graffiti where the great artwork is being damaged by, I am told by the police, white troublemakers, and they have faced no consequences.
4:51:00
The assembly person has taken the artwork down and
Justin Brannan
4:51:05
Thank you very much.
Constance Lesold
4:51:06
Yeah.
4:51:06
It's just that they came right back again.
4:51:11
So that protecting our precious artwork at Franklin And Fulton that we all worked so very hard for.
4:51:23
Thank you.