Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10 a.m. (New York City time), Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
This recording covers the resumed public testimony portion of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's hearing on a package of micromobility and e-bike safety bills, which one witness described as a nearly 30-bill hearing. Dozens of app-based delivery workers, many from the Workers Justice Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos, opposed bills they said would increase police enforcement, confiscation and app-company control, citing pressure from delivery apps and account deactivations, and called for more bike infrastructure instead. Other witnesses, including pedestrians injured in e-bike crashes and members of the Vehicle Safety Alliance, urged passage of Priscilla's Law (Intro. 802) requiring registration and visible identification of e-bikes, while still others debated Intro. 244's limits on the sale and rental of class three e-bikes and the precision of geofencing for preconsidered bill 2590. Many witnesses argued that cars cause most crashes and deaths; the presiding member noted a separate October 27 hearing on Vision Zero. No votes were taken.
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2:40 All right, I'll begin all
2:40 from from this side whenever
2:42 you're ready. Thank you
2:51 , my name is not, and I am a
2:54 delivery delivery worker and
2:55 the ideas and I'm sharing my
3:01 story today to request your
3:03 arjun support.
3:04 Regarding and I'm unjust,
3:06 unjust deactivation has
3:07 completely disruedpt my
3:10 livelihood recently over asked
3:11 me to submit a photo
3:12 verification. I complied
3:15 immediately. Uploading my
3:16 profile photo within five
3:18 minutes. Yet shortly after
3:19 . My account was the of having
3:23 a duplicate accounts
3:24 specifically and over each
3:27 account. This makes no sense
3:28 because I do not for this ad
3:31 license, which is legally
3:34 required to operate in and
3:36 uber account it is intelligent
3:39 , entirely unclear how certain
3:41 account could be even exist
3:42 under my name and I was given
3:44 no fair way to defend myself
3:46 or correct this era, I had
3:49 these issues with my account
3:50 and I had a deal suffered many
3:53 times, but they are telling me
3:55 different reasons of our, for
3:58 example, one representativ
3:59 eonce. Send me an information
4:01 that my account was flagged
4:05 for cancellation fraud. It
4:05 makes this process even more
4:07 complicated when driver try to
4:09 resolve this issues we hit
4:10 with with with a break while
4:13 support is remote. Look at
4:15 that far away and completely
4:17 disconnected from the
4:18 realities of our City, they do
4:21 not know our local policies
4:23 and many cases they are
4:24 incorrect advice only driver
4:28 drives us deeper into trouble
4:29 rather than for being anything
4:31 as a worker. We are deeply
4:33 about safety on the street. We
4:35 we want to protect our
4:37 communities and followed
4:38 traffic rules, but they
4:40 reality is that we face
4:42 immense pressure pressures
4:44 that makes 50. Everybody
4:46 struggled. We have to deal
4:49 with traffic to get
4:50 unpredictable condition and
4:51 and above all consequence
4:53 stint grinding pressure from
4:55 the company's pushing us t
4:57 odrive faster and harder, thank
5:00 you very much next. Good
5:09 afternoon. My name is joshua,
5:10 would. I am a delivery worker
5:11 with 10 years of experience
5:13 across the industry and an
5:14 organizer with the workers
5:15 justice project and was
5:16 deliveries to tornadoes. I am
5:18 deeply concerned about some of
5:20 these bills. I'm speaking both
5:20 from my own perspective from
5:22 working every day on a by
5:23 school, just setting that
5:24 record straight and on behalf
5:26 of over 150 of my comrades who
5:28 have been waiting outside
5:29 today and we're unable to b
5:33 eheard the issue of the issues
5:33 of st safety that these bills
5:34 are meant to address do not
5:35 come from the existence o
5:37 fdelivery workers on e bikes
5:38 . Making our streets safer
5:40 requires a comprehensive
5:41 approach built around
5:42 dedicated infrastructure and
5:43 regulation of the apps
5:45 themselves during.
5:45 The pandemic we were hailed
5:46 as heroes. It was during this
5:47 time that the City legalized
5:49 bikes and as the workforce
5:50 continued to grow under the
5:51 New created by the apps bikes
5:53 are now here to what we need
5:56 is more space to operate and
5:59 dedicated micro mobility leans
5:59 , pick up resting areas
6:03 . Every order being delivered
6:03 by a class three bike is one
6:05 not being delivered in a car
6:05 or a truck.
6:06 Which are the real dangers
6:07 in our streets and the sourc
6:08 eof connections that we have t
6:10 owork around on a day to day
6:11 basis we are workforce who
6:15 have adapted time and time
6:15 again to increasing demand
6:17 from apps who popped up in the
6:18 City and gave us tasked to
6:18 complete in a landscape that
6:20 was not designed for us to
6:22 safely operated, but we found
6:23 a way. Anyway, we hustle one
6:24 order a few dollars at a time
6:26 under intense pressure from a
6:28 oversight that is blind to the
6:29 realities of the streets in
6:30 front of us, it is not fair t
6:33 othe vast majority of workers
6:34 who operate their bike safely
6:37 to retroactively band their
6:38 tools and place the burden on
6:39 them for compliance with New
6:41 rules, even a measures. This
6:42 is intrude 95 fails to adjust
6:44 to the full scope of the my
6:45 capability and just delivery
6:47 industry and the logistical
6:49 challenges required for a swap
6:50 back program to be fully
6:52 comprehensive once these
6:52 wheels get sent in motion.
6:55 Every worker who is inevitabl
6:56 yleft out of the program will
6:59 be punished.
7:00 These these hinge on fair
7:01 solutions for all workers who
7:02 have already invested
7:03 thousands of dollars int
7:04 otheir vehicles and this means
7:05 adapting the city's
7:07 infrastructure to reflect what
7:08 we as workers already know
7:09 that we can do our job safely.
7:11 Thank. We don't need to thank
7:11 you very much. Next. Hi. Good
7:17 afternoon concerned numbers.
7:18 My name is joe dawson. I'm
7:20 from queens, and I'm currently
7:22 part time delivery worker with
7:24 crop up and part time yellow
7:26 cab driver. So which kind of
7:27 gives me a very intimate idea
7:31 about New York City streets.
7:32 I've listened this entire
7:34 morning for hours as you
7:36 aggressively pushed for these
7:37 e buy crackdowns and I have to
7:39 ask are you even thinking
7:40 about the thousands of people
7:42 whose livelihoods depend upon
7:45 these streets because why I
7:46 sit? Whenever when New laws are
7:47 about to be passed or
7:49 implemented it is always at
7:51 the expense of working class
7:52 New yorkers were blue colored,
7:55 I hear the heartbreaking
7:56 testimonies of a lot of people
7:57 who have been heard the
7:59 pedestrians who have suffered
8:00 from this severe injuries and
8:01 my deepest sympathies and
8:02 condolences to the people who
8:03 have been hurt, but as public
8:07 advocate, Williams said when
8:08 he drives, he hates bikers and
8:10 pedestrians when he bikes, h
8:12 ehates pedestrians and drivers
8:14 when someone is walking, they
8:17 hate bikers and drivers so.
8:20 It's currently the
8:21 infrastructure of New yorker
8:23 is pitting all of us against
8:26 each other. So in my opinion
8:27 ,the real danger is our
8:29 outdated infrastructure and a
8:30 system that allows the
8:32 vehicles returning to active
8:34 death machines by actively
8:36 turning into crosswalks with
8:38 pedestrians are crossgin by
8:40 actively letting bikers go
8:42 without a traffic signal when
8:43 pedestrians are crossing, I
8:46 think instead of fixing many
8:47 of this root root issues we or
8:49 you are letting the company's
8:52 police. Our safety as delivery
8:55 drivers, which shouldn't be
8:58 the case. I also feel the apps
8:59 are rushing us with their
9:01 algorithms to penalize us for
9:03 being even a minute late. I
9:04 have. I heard the uber it's
9:06 person say that they don't and
9:07 uber doesn't. But what about
9:09 rob? What about door dash. I
9:10 do grow up, up and I have a
9:12 percentage. What? It says how
9:14 fast I did deliver on time on.
9:18 Thank you. Thank you very muc
9:21 h
9:21 . Next. Good afternoon. My
9:23 name is alejandra charles
9:25 , and I've been on the up
9:26 delivery working for 10 years.
9:29 I'm also an organizer. We work
9:32 justice projects for the last
9:33 10 years I work for dorda grow
9:37 hope and over its I've
9:39 deliberately food, medicine
9:40 and essential goods to New
9:43 yorkers through all kinds of
9:45 weather, including during the
9:46 panda on Mayor storms when
9:48 many people were taught to
9:52 stay home. I know what it
9:53 means to be out there on this
9:55 is Eric because I leave it
9:57 e23 61 in through 25 87 anne
10:04 intro 986. We are now
10:07 criminals. We are workers
10:09 supporting our families more
10:11 police enforcement and by
10:13 confiscation will not or
10:15 streets. We cannot live
10:19 workers livelihoods in the
10:19 hands of the herbs that
10:21 created many of these problems
10:23 , we all purpose bills that
10:26 would ban the burqa, the bikes
10:29 with depend on increasing
10:31 wikipedia enforcement or give
10:32 delivery have small power to
10:33 punish on the activity us
10:37 these policies could Mayor by
10:40 increased police interactions
10:41 and give corporations more
10:43 power to enforce rules against
10:47 us, any real safety solution
10:49 no more policy in a
10:50 confiscation or the activation
10:52 make our war safer, no harder
10:54 .I had to ask. How can we those
10:58 in the same companies that
11:01 display us armed on trade us
11:03 at this possible labor to keep
11:05 us safe, nor da's recently
11:08 agreed to pay adrienne, $31
11:11 million after knowledge in
11:12 that you had indeed stolen
11:15 money from delivery workers by
11:16 withholding our pay and failed
11:18 to comply with New York city's
11:21 minimum payrolls. Yes, somehow
11:23 you members are put public
11:25 safe with the safety safety as
11:27 workers in the hands or greedy
11:28 . Thank you very films. Thank
11:29 you. Thank you. Next. Good
11:40 afternoon. My.
11:41 Name is yaya cuba. Columba.
11:45 I have been and delivery
11:47 worker for three years and a
11:51 member of the workers project
11:57 and lose deliveries us we need
12:00 those delivery workers are
12:05 under constant pressure from
12:08 up to meet a streak pick up
12:12 and delivery this time. Why
12:17 traffic? Oh, red line make use
12:22 leg we can deep analyzes it
12:27 this pressure can forced water
12:30 care to souls between
12:35 following traffic
12:38 . Plowing
12:38 . And protect 16.
12:41 Our income companion needed
12:50 to give you, so we can. It is
12:55 fake traffic lying following
12:57 allowing and workers safely.
13:03 Thank you. Thank you for your
13:05 testimony and this panel is
13:09 excused.
13:10 Next up we have trey laurie,
13:13 mohammed, john alexander bravo
13:22 , bah abdu laye so far how
13:34 many folks that I've called on
13:36 are here. Is that one so far
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14:31 main zell.
14:32 All right, and we have space
14:40 for one more fear. No. Bah!
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15:17 . We mohammed ramen. I
15:28 . Mohammed abu hashem, all
15:39 right,
15:39 I'll start off with you and
15:41 you remember to say your name
15:42 before you begin. Thank you.
16:03 Going up the moon, my.
16:08 Nap my name is mohamed el
16:11 worked. Sorry. Sorry. You the
16:13 start over again. Let's keep
16:14 it quiet in here, can you
16:15 please start his time again. I
16:18 want to be able to hear yo
16:19 uclearly. Thank you. You you
16:20 begin goo aftdernoon
16:24 , my name is my mother will
16:24 kill him and I have work erred
16:27 of a delivery driver in New
16:30 York City for almost thre
16:31 eyears. I am. I am also a
16:36 member of the they and l g u I
16:41 have work, it would government
16:44 adrienne nearly one. Yes, I am
16:48 here to share my concern about
16:53 from force it, bill included
16:56 205587 in due 2590 in truth,
17:10 the Eric hundred 89 and in
17:13 drew 986 with we suffered
17:20 effort in informal, improve
17:22 working in food working
17:25 conditions, but I would also
17:28 want to makes shoot that New
17:33 policy don't do not created it
17:35 and do not created additional
17:39 selling them for workers. How
17:44 do how? Defendant on delivery
17:46 f for death and gone delivery
17:52 companies after the as very
17:55 little time to pick, get up
18:00 delivery water and this can
18:04 probably this of
18:05 . Pressure this compressor
18:07 divers to rush even even we
18:12 eat, you answered one day I I
18:16 one day we I was working in
18:18 bike bike line.
18:22 I go a car got found only
18:29 opening informed me
18:32 . Dahlia, like bangladesh wolf
18:38 department night, can we give
18:39 him another minute. Okay, coo
18:41 l. Can we please add another
18:43 minute, can you if you can
18:44 interpret that would be great.
18:47 But after a nycha act. I mean,
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18:51 . Dollars or no, we're making.
18:53 I'm making the ass so that he
18:55 can share his experience in
18:56 bangla if he would like, you
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19:06 . To to multiple different
19:08 . The months thinkable the
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19:21 . They good to see. I mean,
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19:28 did bond over this.
19:35 I have an idea about what is
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19:41 teammates.
19:41 I'm gonna cast passcode
19:44 party and I want and I did.
19:53 Dark. Wow. All right. Thank
19:56 you. Thank you so much for
19:57 your testimony. I appreciate
19:58 you sharing that this next
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21:15 who some actually, actually,
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21:29 . Because not delivering no
21:35 deliveries or they want the
21:41 peace.