Epstein presses DCWP on low follow-through for pedicab enforcement
Epstein says if tickets are meaningless there is no incentive to comply. He asks what DCWP is doing to improve compliance and prevent tourists from being ripped off, noting not everyone can be Gale Brewer.
So we talked earlier about 1,200 pedicab violations in the last year, and it seems like some less than 10% issue, there's some kind of...
Action where there's an ongoing problem.
What's happening there?
Why is it so low?
What's going on with the enforcement actions that we're seeing on the ground that don't result in any kind of follow through?
Thank you for that question, Chair.
I think with respect to pedicab enforcement,
on street enforcement handled by the police department or the parks department if it's happening in parkland.
And my understanding is over the past three years, they've issued approximately 5,000 summonses to pedicab operators.
In terms of the pathway and what it takes and what happens to the adjudications, I don't have insight into that.
But we can get that information from the police department.