Phil Wong questions DOT on street ambassador program visibility
Wong asks about street ambassadors, noting he has never seen one in his district during major projects. Malamy explains the team of 12-15 ambassadors is deployed project-by-project across all five boroughs, coordinated by project managers and borough commissioners, and offers to follow up on specific district projects.
Councillor Phil Wong.
Yes, you were mentioning about street ambassadors.
Can you talk about how often they come visited?
Because I've never seen mine.
If you can tell me who's the street ambassador in my district, I would certainly like to reach out to him or her.
Got it.
Okay.
Yeah, happy to talk about that program.
So they serve all five boroughs, and it's a team of like 12 to 15.
And so they're deployed kind of throughout the city on a project-by-project basis.
Between our DOT project managers and the borough commissioners'offices, strategize about when and where.
To deploy the street ambassadors, whether they're gathering feedback from the public or explaining a project that's soon to be implemented.
So I'm not sure, like I could get back to you on projects in your district.
I would certainly need the ambassador around when there are major projects in my district.
And there were several of them and I haven't seen any ambassadors like collecting feedback.
I had to do that.
All right, so I welcome the ambassador of my district at the next project.
Thank you.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Joe.
Thank you, Councilor Wong.