AM Linda Rosenthal**Response from Jack Brown

Linda Rosenthal has responded to the bike crisis 25 years in the metastazis. She has severa bills. Jack Brown responded to this dilatory response by recalling his overture to address the growing public safety issue around 2011. The undue influence of Transportation Alternatives upon mayoral administrations and the willingness of city and state politicians to accede to the armtwisting and rhetoric has allow the problem to become a crisis. Costing lives, livelihoods and untold numbers of accidents and close calls. Budgeoning the quality of life. There has been a reckless disregard for public safety and human life on the part of the city leaders for 25 years. Enough! Enough! Enough! ******************************************************************8 AM Rosenthall: Likely you do not recall our meeting around 2011-you were coming out of a meeting at the apartment of a man who subsequently ran-unsuccessfully for elected office. I approached you as a former proprietor of the Hi-Ho-Cyclery and spokesman for the Coalition Against Rogue Riding. The streets and sidewalks were already areas of jeopardy. Transportation Alternatives has applied undue influence to the Bloomberg administrations to withhold enforcement by the NYPD against the escalating rogue riding.. You were not responsive. Guilty perhaps but not proactive. Your welter of bills and passionate advocacy of various topical issues is all well and good. But pols like yourself and Sen. Liz Krueger who wasted a year of my and her staff's time are in part responsible for the decades of risk, danger and injury experienced by the public. There is NO SAFETY without A RESPONSIBLE BIKE CULTURE. ENFORCEMENT is the BACKBONE of same. The NYPD has been undermined. Quality of life bludgeoned. Pat yourselves on the back for that little dance of evasion of responsibility. Sincerely, Jack Brown Coalition Against Rogue Riding ************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** AM Rosenthal's office email Delivery Apps & E-Bike Safety Included as part of the City's $116-billion budget is the creation of the Department of Sustainable Delivery. The department, which will be housed under the city Department of Transportation, will be tasked with enforcement of laws against illegal e-bike and e-scooter riding, parking violations and enforcement of New York City’s laws regulating delivery apps. However, while that sounds like progress, there's a catch: the 45-member department will not be operational for another two and a half years. People are clamoring for relief now. We need streets and sidewalks that are safe for everyone. However, a missing piece from ongoing conversations about this matter is the role of delivery app platforms play. When drivers are rewarded for making fast deliveries and effectively punished for moving too slowly, it incentivizes dangerous behavior. I am proud to sponsor statewide legislation that would prohibit delivery app platforms from incentivizing dangerous behavior. Dangling bonuses or financial rewards to those who make the most or fastest deliveries contributes to the disorder we see on our streets. It also protects delivery workers from being locked out of their delivery apps for slow performance. Further, I am sponsoring legislation to require delivery app companies to provide drivers with liability insurance, ensuring that anyone injured has a form of recourse.