Speaker Menin asks about on-street enforcement success

How would the administration assess its on-street enforcement of our micromobility laws thus far this year, and do you think your enforcement efforts have been successful?

I guess PD will start.

And I'll speak briefly and then turn it over to Chief Obey.

But obviously there's stepped up enforcement and the numbers that Chief Obey described earlier speak to that.

Obviously there's always more work to do.

Right?

So we're following the data, both in terms of key locations, key corridors, where there's a concentration of accidents, injuries, fatalities.

We're acting in response to that.

Again, it's a very data-driven approach.

We talk about precision policing in other contexts.

This is about precision when it comes to traffic safety.

Obviously, there's always more work to do.

And, you know, every accident is one too many.

Every fatality, obviously, is one too many.

But we are very focused on this issue.

And with that, I'll turn it over to Chief Obey.

Okay.

Good morning, everyone.

So enforcement decisions are made this way.

We focus and hive visibly to corridors citywide.

There are 15 of those corridors.

In all boroughs and they touch mostly all precincts.

These corridors were identified in collaboration with the DOT, just reviewing data going back four years prior to 2024.

Nine corridors citywide were identified in 2024.

That has since expanded to 15 in 2025.

An example of one such corridor is

Parkway in the confines of the 606166 precincts where we had three fatalities in all of them in March of 2025.

And this was caused by a speeding operator.

We typically direct our resources along corridors where we see spikes in fatalities, injuries, and collisions.

And in this particular case, three fatalities along Ocean Parkway in 2025.

We have zero as we sit here today.

Total collisions are down along that corridor.

Total injuries are down.

Total corridor moving violations are up.

And vision zero movers are up.

As it pertains to micromobility devices, the first thing we do, we'll speak about that also at length, point-of-sale initiatives.

Point-of-sale initiatives addressing unsafe motorized devices at point-of-sale locations, addressing these...

Retailers and we started that work in two phases in 2021.

The initial focus was on mopeds.

This year we focused on high-powered out-of-class e-bike and e-scooters.

As of September 21st, we visited 71 storefronts were identified, 63 inspected.

90 bikes seized from three locations, three corresponding old summonses.

Inspections for the most part, we found broad compliance and follow-up visits will continue.

And we work hand-in-hand with the DOT at those locations where we distributed flyings.

I'll jump in.

I would echo everything Chief Obey said.

We have a really great working relationship, both at the staff and leadership level with PD, to use the data and really let the data drive all of our efforts.

Enforcement is one piece of that.

But really, we're taking a comprehensive approach.

That's enforcement, education, infrastructure, regulation.

And I would, you know, I guess to answer the question, I do believe that it's working.

I believe that we're seeing the trends going in the right direction overall.

Year to date, we've seen 151 traffic fatalities.

That's down nine from this point last year.

And it's down 43 from 2024 at this point.

We have seen an uptick, as was noted, in e-bike and e-scooter fatalities.

And that certainly underscores the importance of the work we're all doing here today together.