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Car free Earth Day, April 26, 2025 in New York City · Go News To Go: More Good News

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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 2: It is Car Free Earth Day, April twenty six ten am,
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  Speaker 2: four pm. Well five Burroughs uh Yannis Rodriguez, who's actually
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  Speaker 2: over here, and he's going to be speaking soon in
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  Speaker 2: open streets NYC delivering for you.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, it's all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: All right, clear channel, good job, all right there, you're
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  Speaker 2: letting them go there, MTV Pittman.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it's all good stuff. So look we're here.
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  Speaker 2: Is Jerry Nadler, infamous politician.
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  Speaker 3: For New York, and we have a big crowd here.
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  Speaker 2: We're in Times Square, Father Duffy Square, with a big
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  Speaker 2: audience to discuss the Car Free Earth Day, which is
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  Speaker 2: the twenty sixth. We'll be doing our birthday concert here
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  Speaker 2: on the twenty second, and the Apartment of Chain Inputation
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  Speaker 2: will be joining us d C as it will be
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  Speaker 2: joining us and many and many others. So stay tuned
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  Speaker 2: and you're gonna see some entertainment, and you're gonna hear
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  Speaker 2: about what's happening in uh in our fair city and
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  Speaker 2: the most who are Liverpool, marvelous location. Wherever you are
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  Speaker 2: is marvelous. His father Duffy overseeing this. You got George
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  Speaker 2: m cohan way down there and for many years we've
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  Speaker 2: been doing our concerts. This year we're gonna be doing
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  Speaker 2: it also in the Tedescian area, which is next to
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  Speaker 2: my father Duffy Square, and we're gonna have a good time,
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  Speaker 2: all right, so stay on here.
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  Speaker 3: That's a love.
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  Speaker 2: Cross laughing I do their birthday concert that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be speaking.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you twenty second listen.
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you, thank you for doing this. That's magnificent. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Tom is with a Times Square alliance. We got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people running this city. I'm Kenny Blanco is
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  Speaker 2: such a great man.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, good morning, and thank you everybody for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Kenny Place and cio I oversee city
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  Speaker 4: wide signature.
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  Speaker 5: That's with the Department of Transportation.
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  Speaker 6: We're want to welcome everyone.
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  Speaker 4: To this press conference in alphabet for apart from Birthday
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, to be taking place on April twenty six,
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  Speaker 4: from ten am to work pm. Before we initiate our
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  Speaker 4: press conference announcement, we want to introduce the Thunderbirds, American
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  Speaker 4: Indian dancers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that can hear?
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  Speaker 7: That can very much.
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  Speaker 8: They asked me if I woke before we have our
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  Speaker 8: dancing about to just say a few words about birthday,
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  Speaker 8: if you're going to be coming up as your hearth,
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  Speaker 8: I having right under six. I just wanted to say
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  Speaker 8: a few words about the Earth. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 8: think about that very much, but when you.
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  Speaker 7: Think about the Earth. Without the Earth, we would have
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  Speaker 7: nothing at all.
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  Speaker 8: Everything that was mean in our lives comes from the Earth.
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  Speaker 8: Everything that we have to keep ourselves.
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  Speaker 7: Alive something on Earth.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's something we don't about every day, but
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  Speaker 8: it's very very important.
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  Speaker 7: To remember that.
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  Speaker 8: Among the Native American people, we believe that we are
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  Speaker 8: caretakers of the Earth.
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  Speaker 7: We are the ones who are taking care.
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  Speaker 1: Of the hearth.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes call a mother Earth.
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  Speaker 8: And Mother Yes, and we're here to make sure that
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  Speaker 8: Earth is always have to well.
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  Speaker 7: I think there's something that we have not thought about
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  Speaker 7: in this future. Who can now?
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  Speaker 8: And I say in the future, because one of the
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  Speaker 8: things that Native American people also say is that we
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  Speaker 8: have to think about the seven generations, the generations the
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  Speaker 8: people who are coming to young boys, the young girls
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  Speaker 8: and their children seven generations from now.
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  Speaker 7: What kind of a world, what kind of.
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  Speaker 8: An earth are we going to be leaving these people?
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  Speaker 8: And that's something we have to think about, something that
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  Speaker 8: we should never forget. I always say we shouldn't have
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  Speaker 8: just one day for Earth Day, but should be all
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  Speaker 8: the year round, every day again, and I often say
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  Speaker 8: it's very important for the young boys and girls to
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  Speaker 8: understand how important the Earth is for us. And I say,
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  Speaker 8: when they did get to school every day and they
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  Speaker 8: say the pleasure relations to the flag, they should also
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  Speaker 8: improve at.
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  Speaker 7: The end of that, thank you Earth. So they're constantly
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  Speaker 7: reminded of how.
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  Speaker 8: Much was depended upon the Earth, and that's why we
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  Speaker 8: have Earthday, why we should have Earthday every day. But
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  Speaker 8: I didn't have a prayer I wanted to share with you.
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  Speaker 8: This is an old Maiden Earth prayer. But it's kind
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  Speaker 8: of interesting as how we reading this. This is really
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  Speaker 8: very relevant today, even though it maybe one hundred years old. Creator,
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  Speaker 8: open our hearts to peace and healing between all people. Creator,
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  Speaker 8: open our hearts to provide and pretend for all our
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  Speaker 8: children of the Earth. Creator, open our hearts to respect
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  Speaker 8: the Earth and all the gifts of the Earth. Creator,
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  Speaker 8: open our hearts to end exclusion violence. And here among
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  Speaker 8: all people, thank you for your gifts of this day
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  Speaker 8: and every day.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's.
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  Speaker 8: Really very Now we have a dance coming up for
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  Speaker 8: young lady. I'd just like to say that I am
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  Speaker 8: from two tribes. My father is hoping from Arizona. My
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  Speaker 8: mother is Undebego from Nebraska. The young lady is going
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  Speaker 8: to be dancing for us. She's from two tribes also,
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  Speaker 8: from the Cherokee tribe from North Carolina and the Tiano tribe.
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  Speaker 8: And they come in a small group of violands down
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  Speaker 8: in the Caribbean. And her name is Marie Conci woman,
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  Speaker 8: and she's going to be doing.
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  Speaker 7: Hoop dance for you. But it's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 8: This particular style of hoop dancing comes from the honest
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  Speaker 8: Snabi people to way up around Wisconsin and Michigan. And
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  Speaker 8: as a dance is dancing with the hoop, she's going
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  Speaker 8: to be making different kinds of designs of the things
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  Speaker 8: you find in nature, different kinds of animots. It might
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  Speaker 8: be a bird, and there also the different things you
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  Speaker 8: find in the forest, like flowers and trees. And at
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  Speaker 8: the end of the dance, she makes the globe which
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  Speaker 8: is holding up at the gain and saying thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Ever it once again, this is a hook dance house.
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  Speaker 9: The subscriptions.
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  Speaker 10: And all right, strangle myself right.
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  Speaker 11: Now and first battusos and pons suspect them from the contractors.
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  Speaker 3: The oh my god, perfect up, good, give me.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing really to the nause.
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  Speaker 4: You're a funderbord of Amerriagan Indian dancers.
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  Speaker 10: Oh that's cool, so tellible.
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  Speaker 6: And now we want to introduce everyone.
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  Speaker 4: The Commissioner founded Carfree Hearth Day back in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: Commissioner Idoni's Rodriguez. Yeah, but a big aprosm here.
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  Speaker 9: Lot to figure out.
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  Speaker 7: At the corner, like.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you to clear channel.
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  Speaker 12: And oh my, thank you for all that being a
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  Speaker 12: great party helping us all times square everywhere, because everyone
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  Speaker 12: need a clear channel.
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  Speaker 6: That's why you know we have a big bother there.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 6: Stay, this is our Confree of Day twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 6: Another we're gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Plus from everybody.
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  Speaker 12: Like this place here it should be a storage for
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  Speaker 12: car In the eighties, the four bloomber and Commissioner the
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  Speaker 12: man had that idea on how we can work building
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  Speaker 12: our plaza. Because so then we follow we majorly block
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  Speaker 12: five millions for feet only for petition space in our
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  Speaker 12: great city of New York. In the last three years
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  Speaker 12: we have built almost ninety miles of protected by land
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  Speaker 12: in our city. Two more than ning administration built in
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  Speaker 12: a three year period, like the twenty twenty two that
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  Speaker 12: we built in twenty twenty three and the twenty nine
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  Speaker 12: that we built in twenty twenty and twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 12: are numbers that think about and put together all the
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  Speaker 12: largest city in our country, and we overpassed those numbers
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  Speaker 12: when we measure.
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  Speaker 5: Then and what we happy in the city New York
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  Speaker 5: we had before, So.
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  Speaker 12: No doubt that you know, I'm happy to say that
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  Speaker 12: as a former council Because of my experience being born
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  Speaker 12: and raised in the countryside in the island of the Caribbean,
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  Speaker 12: when the water traputation was dunking horses bike and they
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  Speaker 12: only one there was only one.
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  Speaker 5: Person with a car, I know how important was to
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  Speaker 5: be growing up as a child.
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  Speaker 6: Well what was free from me in the in the sisty.
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  Speaker 6: Now I had to pay for my daughter montessory education.
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  Speaker 12: Because we wanted to expose our children to change, to
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  Speaker 12: take challenges in life. We are doing everything from the
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  Speaker 12: car free of day, from Summers Street, from you know
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  Speaker 12: our more than two hundred and thirty seven open street
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  Speaker 12: that we did in last year and turn two. Emily Kyles,
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  Speaker 12: and they see and the whole team. You know that
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  Speaker 12: they work every day, the whole cultural you know, society.
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  Speaker 12: They are our partners and thank you for the God that.
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  Speaker 5: They also do every day. There's someone here you singing
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  Speaker 5: some phone.
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  Speaker 12: I know that he's tweeting by raising and Kyle, if
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  Speaker 12: you are not being in the biggest celebration on Native
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  Speaker 12: American in New York City.
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  Speaker 5: This is ready for the Teddy.
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  Speaker 12: Twenty second yearly celebration of drums along the hops that
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  Speaker 12: happening Ingo Park. Thank you God also for bringing all
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  Speaker 12: the Native Americans together to celebrate while we are here
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  Speaker 12: one because we are surrounded by great leader Congresment Atholands
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  Speaker 12: will always be a great Congressman, So thank you for it.
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  Speaker 5: As a service.
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  Speaker 12: We have council members here like you know, a stakeholders,
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  Speaker 12: everyone who cares.
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  Speaker 6: If we want to have a better future for all.
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  Speaker 5: Of us and for our children. Right mind they are
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  Speaker 5: eighteen and twelve, but there's grandchildren.
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  Speaker 6: There's newborn baby right now.
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  Speaker 12: Sandy Katrina Marina ay that snow storm should be a
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  Speaker 12: reminder to all of oats that as a little bol
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  Speaker 12: for children that we already as a parent in his
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  Speaker 12: Spanishes say in Planeta is that in palegal the planet
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  Speaker 12: is in danger. That's not a job no less than
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  Speaker 12: bout the responsibility. We cannot guarantee that we will be
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  Speaker 12: saving our planet for the future generation. So we are
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  Speaker 12: here because we want to honor Mother Earth. We are
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  Speaker 12: here because April twenty second is the Earth Day that
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  Speaker 12: we had choose also in New York City to celebrating
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  Speaker 12: giving a break from cars and walk and buy more.
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  Speaker 12: And we understanding those individuals that they lead in transportation
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  Speaker 12: dessert area, why they had those cars, and we had
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  Speaker 12: to build a road for that community too.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, we put the public in
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  Speaker 5: private to connect with.
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  Speaker 12: A public transportation those transportation desert community in order for
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  Speaker 12: to take more people off the car and by and
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  Speaker 12: walk more.
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  Speaker 6: So we only can you know, the only thing.
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  Speaker 12: That we can do is a city to see us
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  Speaker 12: as a global leader in creating a street that serve
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  Speaker 12: all road users. Later this one, the temportation officials from
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  Speaker 12: around the globe, they will be traveling to New York City.
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  Speaker 5: To join DOOT in our second equity emotion.
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  Speaker 12: And then we'll be leading from Africa, from Asia, from Europe,
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  Speaker 12: from Latin America, Kembasiva and the big pr from Bay,
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  Speaker 12: New York, so be ready for May four.
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  Speaker 5: Right May four, there is a five orrow by tour, the.
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  Speaker 12: Larger bick tour in the nation and the second larger
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  Speaker 12: back tour in the whole world following South Africa. So
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  Speaker 12: Kemba Civa also thank you. No, I only want to
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  Speaker 12: remember everyone the institution such a back New York. Not
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  Speaker 12: only that we'll be partnered with all for the emotion,
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  Speaker 12: but they also will be holding a section where hey
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  Speaker 12: and as the leaders of the larger back to in
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  Speaker 12: the nation, the leader for South Africa who also will
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  Speaker 12: be here, and all the leader from Europe, they will
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  Speaker 12: be holding a conversation about the benefit of biking, not
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  Speaker 12: only to promote it from the sport competition approach, but
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  Speaker 12: also from the weldness. If you buy half an hour
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  Speaker 12: every day, you live six more years. It's good for
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  Speaker 12: your environment. For the environment, it's good for the economy,
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  Speaker 12: and it's good for the whot So let's keep promoting
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  Speaker 12: baking in our society. Biking is not a luxury, it's
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  Speaker 12: a human right. Okay, It's not something that you be affiliated.
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  Speaker 12: We open class and middle class with people with high
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  Speaker 12: level or good educational background, it.
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  Speaker 6: Should be also exposed for working class for me. So
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  Speaker 6: New York City doing everything we can do.
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  Speaker 5: Your Tea is working every.
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  Speaker 12: Day to make it even easy to leave car free
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  Speaker 12: in New York City, reclaiming more space on our street
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  Speaker 12: for bike and boss laying, expanding car share and macro
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  Speaker 12: mobility option like City Bike and Excluder, and creating more
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  Speaker 12: attractive and welcoming public spaces for petitions. And that's why
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  Speaker 12: I'm proud to say that I was one of those
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  Speaker 12: co sponsors and the chairman at the time of the
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  Speaker 12: community's Reportation that passed the build of the three Master Plan,
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  Speaker 12: where we.
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  Speaker 5: Also are investing more in on the street community.
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  Speaker 12: There's the reason why if we live in Manhattan, we
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  Speaker 12: are part of almost eighty percent of people that don't
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  Speaker 12: have cars and use train and bosses. Well, those about
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  Speaker 12: that had the privilege, we actually share that with the
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  Speaker 12: other borough because no other borough had the same network
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  Speaker 12: or train and bosses like we have in Manhattan. So
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  Speaker 12: as we promote biking, as we promote walking, as we
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  Speaker 12: promote people to use more bossing train, we also had
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  Speaker 12: to realize that we have built a society that in
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  Speaker 12: many places people are not connecting to the best trend
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  Speaker 12: and bosses services.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a lot of work that we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 12: On Saturday, April twenty six, we will be celebrating the
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  Speaker 12: larger open street car Free Earth Day celebration to.
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  Speaker 6: Date this spring.
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  Speaker 12: DOT will be hosting seven Signatures DOT producing vein throughout
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  Speaker 12: the city in addition to forty seven deveins produced by
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  Speaker 12: community organizations. This event will take place on Carfree Street.
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  Speaker 12: It's not that we are closing the street, that we
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  Speaker 12: are open the street for cultural, for wealth and for
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  Speaker 12: buying for different type of celebrations. And those celebrations will
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  Speaker 12: be happening in Oboro, including Roadway from here to Union
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  Speaker 12: Square and that will be happening again from teny am
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  Speaker 12: to four pm.
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  Speaker 5: But as we're going to be having Carfreer Day in Manhattan,
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  Speaker 5: it will happen in across the five boroughs.
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  Speaker 12: In Queens is One ad A Street in the Bronze
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  Speaker 12: and Poor Richmond Avenue on a starting Island. And as
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  Speaker 12: someone from Washington Knight, yes in Washington Night Indictment too.
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  Speaker 12: But we'll also behaving the Diamonds Run roads also being
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  Speaker 12: powered so CA Carfree three operations.
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  Speaker 5: Will run again on the twenty sixth, tenty into four pm.
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  Speaker 12: We have more information and all Carfreer Day location on
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  Speaker 12: our website nyc do gov.
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  Speaker 5: Backlash car Free, Let's give Kenny Placentia.
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  Speaker 13: Everyone appros Or is a person who run our Carfreer Day,
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  Speaker 13: a summer street led by Commandarta and Nick Benson and
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  Speaker 13: Julie Vero.
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  Speaker 5: You know they are the white who doesn't worry.
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  Speaker 6: Are going to speak on behalf of the agency.
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  Speaker 12: My job is to work for them throughout the New
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  Speaker 12: York City dot Art program.
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  Speaker 5: We commission four environmental focus art work.
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  Speaker 12: For the via Carfree Day, two escort to our intellection
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  Speaker 12: and two illustrations New York and will see one illustration
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  Speaker 12: feature on both shirts posters across the city.
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  Speaker 6: With Jay c the Cove with a Partner. Thank you
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  Speaker 6: to jayse the.
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  Speaker 12: Coach Forte works for good and then will be able
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  Speaker 12: to experience the others three art works our signature event
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  Speaker 12: on April twenty six.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you to one of the commissioned artists, Ernest.
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  Speaker 6: Barrett, for joining us to day. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 6: great job.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 6: Don't be shocked, man.
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  Speaker 12: We have on the arts d yea Cafrier Today will
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  Speaker 12: also kick off our twenty twenty five Open Street and
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  Speaker 12: Public Space programming season. A full list of these year
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  Speaker 12: open street locations will be released closer to Earth Page.
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  Speaker 12: I know New Yorkers we did a lot of team
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  Speaker 12: during KOBE, but everything that we do today, let's compare
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  Speaker 12: to our pre COVID and where are we today?
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  Speaker 5: During COVIE there was a lot of open street, but
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  Speaker 5: it was more barricade.
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  Speaker 12: Where people could walk to those locations by from the
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  Speaker 12: Mayor Alands administration to today, we are starting twenty two
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  Speaker 12: with two hundred and seventeen Open three, then we move
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  Speaker 12: to two twenty seven, then we did two to thirty seven.
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  Speaker 6: So I think that.
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  Speaker 12: Talon day sixteen correg when with my number, but that's
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  Speaker 12: our number and those Open three are now as barricade.
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  Speaker 12: Those Open three their partners with a non for profit
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  Speaker 12: Business Improvement Districts and DOOT. Because of COVIE resources, we
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  Speaker 12: were able to provide the financial resources and we are
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  Speaker 12: committed to continue identify different way or how to continue
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  Speaker 12: supporting those Open three, especially on the CER community that they.
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  Speaker 5: Don't have the same financial resource.
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  Speaker 14: Open three bringing men's value to our community, Open street
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  Speaker 14: bringing people together encouraging Yorkers to get outside, provide access
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  Speaker 14: to buy our neighborhood programming, and they're.
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  Speaker 6: Good for small businesses.
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  Speaker 12: Let's correct those people who say Open Street is not
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  Speaker 12: good for the business. The Bloomber Foundation and DOOT we
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  Speaker 12: partners in twenty twenty two and we find out that
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  Speaker 12: when we have open Stree there's an increase of sell.
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  Speaker 12: When we did the first time Calfree a Day, we
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  Speaker 12: partner with Quebec and we run those numbers and we
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  Speaker 12: find out that in the same corridor three Saturday before
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  Speaker 12: and the Saturday the CAL three a day, there was
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  Speaker 12: a increase or sell. So CAL three a day Open
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  Speaker 12: street is good for everyone. We expect hundreds of open
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  Speaker 12: Street locations to come online this year as we continue
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  Speaker 12: to take its ride to reimagine our street and more
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  Speaker 12: environmental in these spaces.
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  Speaker 6: Calfrer Day is about celebrating on the earth.
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  Speaker 12: We encourage all the Yorkers on this day, in as
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  Speaker 12: many days as possible, the three hundred sixty five days
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  Speaker 12: a year, to leave the video communist possible at.
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  Speaker 6: Home and work and buy more.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for joining us today. Of course, I know that.
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  Speaker 12: We have a list of great partners to say a
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  Speaker 12: because that's my Navy language.
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  Speaker 5: As a total present.
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  Speaker 15: mask a abamaucha in La Prima Persona.
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  Speaker 12: A great friend on the city, great in the nation,
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  Speaker 12: in our great always colors, Londons.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 16: Good afternoon everyone, and thank you to GOT Commissioner Rodriguez
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  Speaker 16: for bringing us all together to announce.
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  Speaker 6: This year's Car Free earth Day.
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  Speaker 16: Since its inception in twenty sixteen, the Open Streets program
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  Speaker 16: has demonstrated how much more connected our communities can become
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  Speaker 16: when we prioritize people over private car travel, whether on
• 28:32
  Speaker 16: foot our bike.
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  Speaker 6: Car Free earth Day is the.
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  Speaker 16: Perfect opportunity for New Yorkers to join their neighbors outdoors
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  Speaker 16: and enjoy all the city has to offer while making
• 28:42
  Speaker 16: more sustainable choices for our shared future. Car emissions contributed
• 28:48
  Speaker 16: significantly to air pollution in New York, and this celebration
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  Speaker 16: reminds us that the small decisions by choosing transit or
• 28:55
  Speaker 16: city bike can help build a healthier, more livable city.
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  Speaker 5: This year's Carfree earth Thing is slated to.
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  Speaker 16: Be the biggest ever, now spanning the five boroughs, and
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  Speaker 16: I look forward to returning here on Saturday, April twenty
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  Speaker 16: sixth and seeing Birdway come alive with all of the performances,
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  Speaker 16: educational activities and more that the community has planned.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 12: I also want to say thanks that you're jogging and
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  Speaker 12: Jalie from the our department, thinking for the great job
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  Speaker 12: there here, so without them what I announcing, you know,
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  Speaker 12: be happy to.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you Nay's here phone great parties.
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  Speaker 12: I served with them as one capacity first one console
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  Speaker 12: endber every Boddy and they fought about console member.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, great, Frank Kelle, haven't been.
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  Speaker 17: Thank you to meission on Rogergan for this great initiative.
• 29:49
  Speaker 17: A couple of years ago, my niece and nephew came
• 29:52
  Speaker 17: to visit New York and they had a great time.
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  Speaker 18: But as they were leaving, I asked, I asked them,
• 29:59
  Speaker 18: what did you think about New York And they said,
• 30:03
  Speaker 18: it smells weird and it's really loud.
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: So if it smells weird, they were talking about the
• 30:09
  Speaker 17: Pots book, and don't get me started about that. That's
• 30:12
  Speaker 17: a whole other press continent.
• 30:15
  Speaker 19: But when they said it's really loud, they were talking.
• 30:18
  Speaker 17: About the horns and the card traffic everywhere you go
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  Speaker 17: in Midtown Manhattan, And I just believe that we shouldn't
• 30:30
  Speaker 17: have to live this one amidst honking ridlock for most
• 30:37
  Speaker 17: of the day in many parts.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: Of New York City, and if you go around the world,
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: New Yorkers.
• 30:42
  Speaker 17: Hate it when we compare New York City to European cities.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: New Yorkers hate it and.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: To do that, But think about it for a minute.
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  Speaker 17: When you go to many of these European cities, many
• 30:56
  Speaker 17: of which have millions and millions of people, and you.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Walk around and you're not amidst traffic.
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  Speaker 17: They are designed for destinies with beautiful plazas, streets that
• 31:10
  Speaker 17: aren't lined.
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  Speaker 5: With cars, bumper and frontper.
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  Speaker 7: I simply believe that we can achieve a New York
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  Speaker 7: that approaches that. And by the way, I'm not talking
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: about banning all.
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  Speaker 17: Car traffic, even though that was an April Fool's joke
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  Speaker 17: that I did a couple of years ago and a
• 31:28
  Speaker 17: lot of people liked the idea. We're talking about non
• 31:32
  Speaker 17: essential car traffic, and the vast, vast majority of car traffic.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: Is non essential.
• 31:39
  Speaker 17: If you go to the entrance of the Hunts of
• 31:42
  Speaker 17: the Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour, you've got one person behind.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: The wheel of each park.
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  Speaker 5: So let's strive for a city that is.
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  Speaker 20: More livable, less traffic, less congestion, and car re Earth
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  Speaker 20: Day April twenty six to twenty eight is an opportunity
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  Speaker 20: to realize a piece of that vision.
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  Speaker 7: When we make decisions, we're not just.
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  Speaker 17: Making policy decis for today with God to speak of
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  Speaker 17: them as decisions for the future.
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  Speaker 7: This what kind of future that meant.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: So let's go out and make the kind of city.
• 32:22
  Speaker 19: Yeah, we all one of them too. Hello everyone, Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 21: I'm so excited to be here with my colleagues and
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  Speaker 21: all of the advocates who have been really really great friends,
• 32:40
  Speaker 21: who have been advisors and supporters and true advocates.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: For the city.
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  Speaker 19: I want to really thank the Commissioner because.
• 32:48
  Speaker 21: I haven't done a single thing related to transportation without
• 32:52
  Speaker 21: this man by my side. And whether it's the Open
• 32:56
  Speaker 21: Streets legislation which I was proud to pass during the
• 32:59
  Speaker 21: pandemic open culture, developing a network of greenways, protecting cyclists
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  Speaker 21: and pedestrians during on street construction, and even developing a.
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  Speaker 19: Bike infrastructure map which is now online.
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  Speaker 21: We are truly trying to make New York City the
• 33:18
  Speaker 21: friendliest city to pedestrians and cyclists.
• 33:21
  Speaker 19: And when we pass open Streets and we codify that
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  Speaker 19: into law, really the vision is what car free Earth
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  Speaker 19: Day looks like. There are people out in.
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  Speaker 21: The streets enjoying themselves, there are artists, there are even
• 33:34
  Speaker 21: places to get a drink of water. You can ride
• 33:36
  Speaker 21: your bike, you could push your baby stroller, and you
• 33:39
  Speaker 21: can enjoy every single thing that New York City has
• 33:42
  Speaker 21: to offer. And it really tries to accomplish so many
• 33:45
  Speaker 21: things at once and does so very successfully. It's really
• 33:49
  Speaker 21: ensuring that we're taking care of our planet. We're actually
• 33:53
  Speaker 21: recognizing that most New Yorkers don't own a car. And third,
• 33:57
  Speaker 21: I would say, we want to be out in these
• 33:59
  Speaker 21: streets because that's what New York City is known for.
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  Speaker 5: What do we like to say, We walk everywhere and
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: this I know, the grid's a little crazy.
• 34:07
  Speaker 21: Downtown is kind of confusing of town. It's nice to meet,
• 34:10
  Speaker 21: but that's what makes New York City so great. You
• 34:13
  Speaker 21: can walk and have a different experience in a different
• 34:15
  Speaker 21: neighborhood and see something very cool at every single corner.
• 34:19
  Speaker 21: And we have the advocates and the artists to thank
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  Speaker 21: for that, and we have to support arts and culture,
• 34:24
  Speaker 21: and we have to support transit advocacy every single step
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  Speaker 21: of the way. So I want to thank DOT because
• 34:30
  Speaker 21: this event also marks the launch of our Open Streets
• 34:32
  Speaker 21: and Public Programming season and with thirty million dollars in
• 34:37
  Speaker 21: funding the environment of Transportation and City Council is committed
• 34:40
  Speaker 21: to making these spaces more accessible, more vibrant, and more welcoming.
• 34:45
  Speaker 19: And today is about imagining a city where our streets.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Serve people first.
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  Speaker 21: We can build a healthier, more sustainable, and more connected
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  Speaker 21: New York and it starts with events like this. So
• 34:58
  Speaker 21: I want to encourage everyone to go out. I see
• 35:00
  Speaker 21: a local celebrity. I've seen mister missus met out on
• 35:04
  Speaker 21: car free Earth Day. Okay, So really, truly the best
• 35:07
  Speaker 21: New Yorkers are out there enjoying city investments. And what
• 35:11
  Speaker 21: is so important, which are our public spaces. So thank
• 35:14
  Speaker 21: you to the Commissioner, of my colleagues and all of
• 35:15
  Speaker 21: the advocates. This is truly your when you make this
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  Speaker 21: happen every single year, and it's also a victory for
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  Speaker 21: environmental justice.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you guys. Remember, and I would like
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: to encourage everyone that by the end, everyone put in the.
• 35:31
  Speaker 12: Social media you know, and speak to your friend who
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: are celebrity you know and tell them to do the
• 35:37
  Speaker 12: same thing. When I did a covery day for the
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: first time, we have from Bett Miller to Limanu and
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: Miranda to yield the social media to encourage the Yorkers.
• 35:45
  Speaker 12: So here we have many friends, so they Broadway League.
• 35:50
  Speaker 12: Everyone here they've been parted. But we want to make this,
• 35:53
  Speaker 12: you know, a real likea movement. Everyone here they see
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: if we would take a feature from there. From here
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: are two old everyone here, they will be spray across
• 36:04
  Speaker 12: the five borough. That day they will be up Broadway
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  Speaker 12: from here to Union Square. They will be in Stacking Island,
• 36:10
  Speaker 12: they will be in Brooklyn, they will be in Queens,
• 36:13
  Speaker 12: they will be in rand Concord.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: Today we are here at nine for a photo. But
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: that day but to two p a.
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  Speaker 6: You will see. This is gonna be here, so busy being.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Sure that they did the best of them through culture,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: through wellness.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: Through education to report so again if they were on
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: a flow to all of you did.
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  Speaker 12: The personnel comes big and only he brings thirty six
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  Speaker 12: thousands and buy a cyclist, you know, to participate in
• 36:38
  Speaker 12: the largest by two in the Nasion and the second
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: largest one in the world by From there that day
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: to the whole year, he worked with his team, teaching
• 36:49
  Speaker 12: changer and how to buy, teaching adults how to buy,
• 36:53
  Speaker 12: working with individual that they made some mistake and they
• 36:56
  Speaker 12: came from Rackets Island and they training them to be
• 36:59
  Speaker 12: mechanics and those are the men and women that they
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: are facing over city Bike with the okay, but Siva,
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: thank you, Thank you, Commissioner, thanks for bringing up the
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  Speaker 12: TD Fiver of Bite Tour.
• 37:14
  Speaker 22: There are thousands of road bikes around the country and
• 37:17
  Speaker 22: USA Today decided that they would have a panel of
• 37:20
  Speaker 22: experts compile the top twenty psychling events in the country.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: The TD Fiber of Bike toys on that list, and.
• 37:27
  Speaker 22: Then they developed Then they decided to have a poll
• 37:30
  Speaker 22: and pull the country to see which is the top
• 37:33
  Speaker 22: ones and it was announced yesterday that the TD Fiver
• 37:37
  Speaker 22: of Bike Tour came in number one.
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  Speaker 6: So we're very happy about that. And I think for
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: two reasons.
• 37:43
  Speaker 22: One it's car free in the greatest city in the world,
• 37:46
  Speaker 22: and two is a few years ago, Mission Rodriguez and
• 37:50
  Speaker 22: Maya Adams decided to give the tour an extra hour
• 37:53
  Speaker 22: of time because it's very congested, and that was a
• 37:55
  Speaker 22: game changer. It made the tour so much better and safer,
• 38:00
  Speaker 22: and as a result, it just keeps getting bigger and
• 38:03
  Speaker 22: better and more people signing up. So thank your Commissioner,
• 38:06
  Speaker 22: and I look forward to seeing everybody on May fourth,
• 38:09
  Speaker 22: and I know Carolina joins us, and I hope some other.
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  Speaker 6: Electric officials do as well.
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  Speaker 23: Well.
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  Speaker 22: Here for Caffree Earth Day, which is a shiny example
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  Speaker 22: of how great the city could be with fuel cars
• 38:21
  Speaker 22: and giving it back to the people.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: You know, Amsterdam was in.
• 38:25
  Speaker 22: Amsterdam at one point they decided in the seventies to
• 38:28
  Speaker 22: have car free Sundays, and all of a sudden, the
• 38:31
  Speaker 22: people said, we're.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Not going back.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: We like it.
• 38:34
  Speaker 22: It's more livable, it's better for a pedestrian cyclist, and
• 38:37
  Speaker 22: Amsterdam is what it is today. And the closer we
• 38:40
  Speaker 22: creep up to more carfree day and the bigger it gets,
• 38:44
  Speaker 22: I think the closer will come to that.
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: But it really is.
• 38:47
  Speaker 22: Commissioned Rodriguez that created this in twenty sixteen. I was
• 38:50
  Speaker 22: here at the first press conference, and he is he
• 38:53
  Speaker 22: doesn't just talk. He's a doer and he gets things done.
• 38:56
  Speaker 22: And every year it gets better and better. This year,
• 38:59
  Speaker 22: Bye New York will be training adults and kids. Had
• 39:01
  Speaker 22: to ride at three locations in the Flat Eye District,
• 39:05
  Speaker 22: Washington Heights and Albscuring Brooklyn, and but the first time
• 39:08
  Speaker 22: ever We're also going to be giving free bike reparent
• 39:10
  Speaker 22: these locations, so come out and look focusing everybody there.
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: Thank you, Phil than seventy much what Ken said that
• 39:19
  Speaker 12: we were able to provide him. We a lot of
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  Speaker 12: time decisions from the Mayo Adams and NYPD addition hour.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: He was trying to the addition hour.
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: From the time of may Coach when he was a mayor,
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: and it was now that he was able to get
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: the hour because it's.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: A lot of work. So thank you also for you
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: persistent with that.
• 39:39
  Speaker 12: The same thing that we did with the Summer Street
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: great initiated by Bloombing Jannette, but he was only seven
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: miles from brooklyn Bridge to seventy nine. Now brooklyn Bridge
• 39:47
  Speaker 12: is almost twenty miles going up to one twenty five
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: and bid too because probably going to be even norther
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  Speaker 12: than one twenty five across the five Orrow.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: So we have many partners. One of them is the
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: open street.
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  Speaker 12: When I I went to see one of the open
• 40:02
  Speaker 12: stree in Washington, I was worth between one.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Eighty second and one eighty third.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't think it was possible to see an open
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  Speaker 12: three in a place that there's.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: So many car going through. But there are two a
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: school that they don't they need.
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: A space and Open Street they did did a great
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: jat So Michelle Levy from Open Street come and say
• 40:23
  Speaker 12: if you work.
• 40:30
  Speaker 24: Thank you to the commissioners to sell to the whole
• 40:32
  Speaker 24: dot for your partnership.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I'm the founder of Any for Kids.
• 40:36
  Speaker 24: We provide kids and family fitness programming. We do all
• 40:40
  Speaker 24: dives of inclusive fitness classes and movements. We're based on
• 40:44
  Speaker 24: the Upper East Side, but together as a public programming partner,
• 40:47
  Speaker 24: we have grown with car Free Birthday over the last
• 40:50
  Speaker 24: few years and it's been so special to see it
• 40:52
  Speaker 24: start with just a.
• 40:53
  Speaker 19: Few blocks to this whole big thing.
• 40:55
  Speaker 24: We've been in Brooklyn in the Bronx and Manhattan and
• 40:59
  Speaker 24: Queen's and I'm so excited for this year. We provide
• 41:02
  Speaker 24: mobile experiences. We bring the fun to the communities where
• 41:05
  Speaker 24: they get to come out, get active and learn about
• 41:09
  Speaker 24: all the different.
• 41:09
  Speaker 25: Ways that they can stay healthy and safe.
• 41:11
  Speaker 24: And it's just such a wonderful thing that we get
• 41:14
  Speaker 24: to celebrate every year, and it's something.
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  Speaker 7: My team and I look forward to year after year.
• 41:19
  Speaker 24: So I'm excited for April twenty six.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: And time and Julie, come here.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: There's another one for a lot of time.
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  Speaker 6: They square in the fourteen sweez here.
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  Speaker 12: But I want for them to say your work. You know,
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: they are the one who tell you responsibility. I said,
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: we're not putting money on activation. They're responsible to the
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: whole activation, in the whole location. So thank you guys,
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: and come and say if you work.
• 41:50
  Speaker 24: Hi.
• 41:50
  Speaker 26: Get after the interview And I'm Julie Stein.
• 41:52
  Speaker 19: I'm the executive director of Unions for a partnership where.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: The business of premer District, your community organization.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Pre Union Square on fourteenth Street.
• 41:59
  Speaker 26: Union Square is a place where you can expect unique
• 42:01
  Speaker 26: and immersive experiences that are authentively New York in all
• 42:05
  Speaker 26: of our public spaces, which is why we're so excited
• 42:07
  Speaker 26: to be hosting part of car Free Earth Day here
• 42:10
  Speaker 26: with Dot. You can expect to see a day full
• 42:14
  Speaker 26: of beautiful music throughout our Broadway Plaza, which goes from
• 42:17
  Speaker 26: seventeen to eighteenth Street. We're so excited to show off
• 42:20
  Speaker 26: the incredible work that Goot just completed last year bringing
• 42:23
  Speaker 26: the Broadway Vision Plan all the way down to Union
• 42:25
  Speaker 26: Square and are now fully pedestrianized plaza on that block.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a spectacular day.
• 42:30
  Speaker 19: We are so grateful for all of our.
• 42:31
  Speaker 26: Partnerships with the Department of Transportation, whether it's with the
• 42:34
  Speaker 26: Plaza program or our arts partners or the entire Public
• 42:37
  Speaker 26: Realm team. And we love car free Earth Day because
• 42:41
  Speaker 26: it gives us a chance to show off the improvements
• 42:43
  Speaker 26: at Howard Heart have already been made, and it allows
• 42:46
  Speaker 26: us to imagine our ambition to further pedestrianize and further
• 42:49
  Speaker 26: make pedestrians friendly the.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: Public spaces and Union Square and on Fourteenth Street.
• 42:53
  Speaker 26: And we are so grateful for the support that we
• 42:55
  Speaker 26: have from the Commissioner and from Congressman Nadler, and from
• 42:59
  Speaker 26: Councilmburo and from Council Humber Batcher, all of which are
• 43:02
  Speaker 26: here today who represent our district of our ambition to
• 43:05
  Speaker 26: make Unionsquare just a fabulous modern public space.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: And so thank you so much for coming and seeing
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: us on Parker Earth Day and.
• 43:11
  Speaker 26: For our continued partnership on our vision bringings, for our
• 43:14
  Speaker 26: workingships so much.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: Hello.
• 43:19
  Speaker 27: I am Jane Rossman with the Garment District Alliance bid Down.
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: Just a couple of blocks from here.
• 43:25
  Speaker 27: I feel like I'm not as eloquent as truly, we
• 43:28
  Speaker 27: really want to kind of reiterate all of that. But
• 43:31
  Speaker 27: as a born and raised New Yorker, I can't even
• 43:34
  Speaker 27: drive a car, so this kind of event truly speaks
• 43:38
  Speaker 27: to what I find important in New York City. And
• 43:41
  Speaker 27: we as a bid we really emphasize our public arts,
• 43:45
  Speaker 27: realm or program throughout the years, and this kind of
• 43:50
  Speaker 27: event really exemplifies why we find programming and installations and
• 43:56
  Speaker 27: especially environmental activism and justice as part of why we
• 44:00
  Speaker 27: do our work in the grounds.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you very much, Commissioner. I'm Tom Harris
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: with the Times Square Alliance.
• 44:08
  Speaker 23: Thank you to the Department of Transportation on the Commissioner
• 44:11
  Speaker 23: Rodriguez as leadership for they have vision for Times Square
• 44:16
  Speaker 23: for these pedestrian plazas as as Commissioner Rodriguez said in
• 44:19
  Speaker 23: two thousand and eight, cars would be driving where we
• 44:22
  Speaker 23: are now, sixty seven percent of Times Square was for
• 44:26
  Speaker 23: cars and thirty three percent was for pedestrians. Since two
• 44:30
  Speaker 23: thousand and eight, we have flipped that number. Now it's
• 44:32
  Speaker 23: sixty seven percent for pedestrians and thirty three percent for cars.
• 44:37
  Speaker 28: So we are thrilled.
• 44:38
  Speaker 23: And as for the businesses, we have more businesses open
• 44:41
  Speaker 23: now in the bow Tie today than we did in
• 44:44
  Speaker 23: two thousand and eight.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: So the businesses are thriving. They are not suffering with
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: less cars in the areas.
• 44:51
  Speaker 23: As Congressmann Aglas said on April twenty sixth, we're going
• 44:55
  Speaker 23: to come and celebrate car free Day. In April twenty
• 44:58
  Speaker 23: sixth I said for six car Free Day in Times Square.
• 45:03
  Speaker 23: We are partnering with the Broadway Bringing Alliance, whose mission
• 45:06
  Speaker 23: three hundred and fifty three hundred and sixty five days
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  Speaker 23: a year is to make our planet, our city more
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  Speaker 23: environmentally friendly.
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: So we're gonna have a great show for them. Again.
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  Speaker 23: Thank you for your leadership and Commissioner Averiders truly is
• 45:20
  Speaker 23: a force of nature. He thought of this in twenty
• 45:23
  Speaker 23: sixteen and last year got me on a bicycle, So
• 45:26
  Speaker 23: thank you him.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Never question though when we started, I was only able
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: to look coffee.
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  Speaker 6: Day to block in front of my office.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: I wasn't having it between.
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  Speaker 12: One seventy seven, one seventy five and a Broadway from
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  Speaker 12: twenty third to fourteenth three, So you has imagine that.
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  Speaker 12: Now we are here and as we have partner from
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  Speaker 12: the Unions player our vision for Broadway Glow for Unions
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  Speaker 12: Quaer to Columbus cirt. That's a vision we send a
• 46:00
  Speaker 12: very day, but this is part of the holistic one
• 46:03
  Speaker 12: that we are.
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: Doing it to make our see more walker. I want
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: to call Keith from.
• 46:09
  Speaker 12: Deeca to say if you are because he's a poniard.
• 46:12
  Speaker 12: Decas is an entity that run lonely. They saving Samba
• 46:16
  Speaker 12: also or the fleet, and every day under his leadership,
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  Speaker 12: he's working so hard.
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  Speaker 5: To be sure that we are responsible to our mother earth.
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  Speaker 6: Keith, thank you very much, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 29: I'm proud to say that Decass was there at the
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  Speaker 29: very beginning with you helping build this event. I'm Keith Kerman,
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  Speaker 29: the chief Fleet Officer for the City of New York.
• 46:39
  Speaker 29: And you might ask why is a fleet officer here
• 46:42
  Speaker 29: at a car free day event. Well, I'm also a walker,
• 46:46
  Speaker 29: a biker. I took the subway here, as I've done
• 46:49
  Speaker 29: every day for thirty one years in New York. We
• 46:51
  Speaker 29: don't want there to be any more vehicles than there
• 46:54
  Speaker 29: need to be. We want to see the movement toward
• 46:58
  Speaker 29: public space, some roach on the roadways, and as much
• 47:03
  Speaker 29: open and free activity in the city as we can.
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: And then where you do need vehicles, we want them
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: to be zero emission.
• 47:14
  Speaker 29: We want them to be designed for safety so truck
• 47:17
  Speaker 29: operators can actually see people around them.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: It's called the high vision truck.
• 47:21
  Speaker 29: Did you know that vehicles can be designed today so
• 47:23
  Speaker 29: they cannot speed, will not speed at the vehicle level,
• 47:27
  Speaker 29: and also sideguards on trucks so they're safe when they
• 47:30
  Speaker 29: take turns.
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: We've worked, you took my thunder.
• 47:35
  Speaker 29: We worked with Commissioner Arriguez when he was our council
• 47:38
  Speaker 29: chair on all of these efforts, including surround cameras. So
• 47:42
  Speaker 29: we want as few vehicles as possible and where we
• 47:46
  Speaker 29: have them not to admit and to be safe.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: So thank you for partnering on this event, Thank.
• 47:53
  Speaker 29: You for having us, and we'll be out here doing
• 47:55
  Speaker 29: education about safely while you're all enjoying an open plaza.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: We almost known.
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  Speaker 5: Of course we have one hundreds of partners.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: But we only have like four more.
• 48:08
  Speaker 12: First, I want to call a Valentina Road from fourteen
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: to come and said you works.
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: You Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Valentina Rojas and I am the.
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  Speaker 5: Environmental Health Manager.
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: We act for environmental Justice.
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  Speaker 25: We act as a community based organization that has been
• 48:27
  Speaker 25: fighting for environmental and climate justice since nineteen eighty eight.
• 48:32
  Speaker 25: We would like to thank the DFT for giving New
• 48:34
  Speaker 25: Yorkers a car free day.
• 48:36
  Speaker 7: This is a day of reduced emissions, and this is
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: a day of reduced pollution.
• 48:40
  Speaker 25: Vehicle missions are a critical environmental justice issue. Studies show
• 48:44
  Speaker 25: that people of color and low income communities are disproportionately
• 48:47
  Speaker 25: exposed to air pollution from all sources, including tail pipe
• 48:51
  Speaker 25: emissions from cars, trucks, and buses that are in fossil fuels.
• 48:55
  Speaker 25: We ACT has a long history of fighting for reduced emissions.
• 48:59
  Speaker 25: Our Dirty Diesel campaign help reduce NTA bus tailpipe emissions
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  Speaker 25: by ninety five percent citywide back in nineteen ninety seven. Currently,
• 49:08
  Speaker 25: I'm leading a project to expand our network of air
• 49:11
  Speaker 25: quality monitors across northern Manhattan. Our community is under threat
• 49:15
  Speaker 25: from buildings and vehicles that are burning fossil fuels, along
• 49:21
  Speaker 25: with other sources of air pollution. Setting up these monitors
• 49:23
  Speaker 25: is essential for us to better understand the quality of
• 49:26
  Speaker 25: the air that we breathe.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: We should have some news to.
• 49:28
  Speaker 25: Announce on the coming front about these air monitors. In
• 49:31
  Speaker 25: the meantime, we like to see more car free days
• 49:33
  Speaker 25: in New York and we would also like to see
• 49:36
  Speaker 25: more electric buses in Northern Manhattan and other environmental justice
• 49:39
  Speaker 25: communities in New York City, especially considering that these communities
• 49:43
  Speaker 25: have the highest asthma rates in the whole country.
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: So let's celebrate this car free day and hopefully many
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: more to come.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Thank you. You have seen these persons taking girds or laying.
• 49:57
  Speaker 12: Development is skilled in volleyball, and they're taken to cut
• 50:00
  Speaker 12: through a scholarship.
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: You are seeing in his school ps.
• 50:03
  Speaker 12: One sixty four on the Coffree day, you were seeing
• 50:06
  Speaker 12: in the street doing ballible listen what come and safety want?
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  Speaker 30: Of course, I want to say thank you to VOP
• 50:18
  Speaker 30: and Commissioner Rodrigo for this opportunity, opportunity in which we
• 50:23
  Speaker 30: open up the street for our youth to use it,
• 50:26
  Speaker 30: our youth to be part of the vice even thank
• 50:29
  Speaker 30: you very much.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 50:33
  Speaker 12: I think that I'm one of the few domin things
• 50:35
  Speaker 12: that I don't do baseball, you know, but here has
• 50:38
  Speaker 12: someone that also you will see her with her baseball case.
• 50:41
  Speaker 12: You know, a lot of keeping exposed to babel now
• 50:45
  Speaker 12: your others. Last year he was at one twenty fibles
• 50:48
  Speaker 12: about in there in their case let's go for Berkalona
• 50:51
  Speaker 12: to come and safety.
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  Speaker 19: Want Wow, good afternoon everyone.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm very excited.
• 51:00
  Speaker 31: Thank you Ivani's for this invitation and also for giving
• 51:03
  Speaker 31: us the opportunity to be on the street on those
• 51:05
  Speaker 31: car free day And like I say, and I agree
• 51:08
  Speaker 31: to all the people that speak, I wish is many days.
• 51:12
  Speaker 31: What I do is I have an into a batting
• 51:14
  Speaker 31: cagases kid goes and play every day there. But now
• 51:18
  Speaker 31: we've been having the opportunity to put this on the
• 51:20
  Speaker 31: street when we do the car free day, and it's
• 51:23
  Speaker 31: really very exciting. You know that people everybody, they don't
• 51:26
  Speaker 31: stop using it. And we're very excited to be part
• 51:29
  Speaker 31: of this event.
• 51:30
  Speaker 19: And something great. And that's what I do.
• 51:33
  Speaker 31: I work for the community, and I have grandchilds and
• 51:36
  Speaker 31: I want the earth to be better for them when
• 51:38
  Speaker 31: I hear it anymore. So I think we all need
• 51:41
  Speaker 31: to keep working on having a better area for everybody.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: So let's just keep doing it, everybody.
• 51:50
  Speaker 12: So I want to close with this thanking everyone reminded
• 51:54
  Speaker 12: that you know, I was a teacher for fifty years.
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: I will always be a teacher. I was always at
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: the base.
• 52:00
  Speaker 12: I will always be an activase in my life and
• 52:03
  Speaker 12: I will if I was a Console member as I
• 52:06
  Speaker 12: will also be thinking as as a council member too.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: I was sorry I was forgetting one of the most.
• 52:14
  Speaker 12: Important partners so for from the beginning, you know, they
• 52:19
  Speaker 12: didn't providing free and freeze a city bike. And this
• 52:25
  Speaker 12: is a great thing because in only they say encourage
• 52:28
  Speaker 12: people to buy because it's good for the whole.
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: Before the economy.
• 52:32
  Speaker 12: But they also saying on car free that day, get
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: your code and you can free you can ride free
• 52:38
  Speaker 12: your city bike. So before anything, let's call Patrick no
• 52:43
  Speaker 12: a general manager or City Bike.
• 52:49
  Speaker 28: I have a good announcement.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, kick on the roster, all right, Good afternoon everyone.
• 52:54
  Speaker 32: I'm Patrick not I'm the general manager for City Bike
• 52:57
  Speaker 32: and on behalf of the entire City Bike and Left team.
• 53:01
  Speaker 32: I'm proud to be here today with our partners at
• 53:03
  Speaker 32: the Department Transportation to celebrate Earth Day.
• 53:07
  Speaker 28: Symbolism matters and.
• 53:08
  Speaker 32: If you want to commend Commissioner Rodriguez for his leadership
• 53:12
  Speaker 32: on this car free Earth Day event, It's a powerful
• 53:15
  Speaker 32: way to highlight the importance of greener modes of transportation
• 53:19
  Speaker 32: in New York City.
• 53:21
  Speaker 28: At City Bike every day is Earth Day.
• 53:24
  Speaker 32: As part of my job, I look at a lot
• 53:25
  Speaker 32: of data, So I'm going to throw some numbers at you,
• 53:27
  Speaker 32: but I'll keep a brief. In twenty twenty four, we
• 53:32
  Speaker 32: enabled forty five million city bike rides.
• 53:36
  Speaker 28: A remarkable twenty nine million of those were on e bikes.
• 53:40
  Speaker 32: This was a twenty five percent and sixty five percent increase, respectively.
• 53:45
  Speaker 28: Year over year.
• 53:47
  Speaker 32: Last year, more than eight hundred thousand people tried city
• 53:50
  Speaker 32: Bike for the first time. Bike share programs like city
• 53:54
  Speaker 32: Bike are a powerful tool to reduce carbon emissions and
• 53:58
  Speaker 32: make sustainable transportation possible for everyday people. Last year, fifty
• 54:03
  Speaker 32: percent of commute our rides on the Lift platform we're
• 54:07
  Speaker 32: on city bike, and eighty one percent of Inner Borough
• 54:10
  Speaker 32: trips on city Bike were on a knee bike. New
• 54:14
  Speaker 32: Yorkers are using city bike to reach farther places and
• 54:17
  Speaker 32: decrease their usage of cars.
• 54:20
  Speaker 28: Seventy percent of city bike riders.
• 54:22
  Speaker 32: Don't own or lease a vehicle, and eighty five percent
• 54:25
  Speaker 32: of city bike riders use the product to get to
• 54:28
  Speaker 32: and from public transit. City bike rides support the sustainable
• 54:33
  Speaker 32: footprint of New Yorkers, So today to show our support
• 54:38
  Speaker 32: for the city's efforts to get people on bikes. City
• 54:41
  Speaker 32: Bike is offering free day passes on Car Free Arts Day.
• 54:49
  Speaker 28: These passes will.
• 54:50
  Speaker 32: Provide unlimited thirty minute pedal bike rides all day in
• 54:54
  Speaker 32: support of green transportation. When you choose a city bike,
• 54:58
  Speaker 32: you are helping to reduce traffic and je improve air
• 55:01
  Speaker 32: quality and create a more sustainable New York City.
• 55:05
  Speaker 28: So I encourage everyone get out there.
• 55:08
  Speaker 32: Enjoy Car Free Earth Day, take it right on the
• 55:11
  Speaker 32: city Bike, and experience the benefits of sustainable transportation.
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: Thanks, thank you, thank you, and again, City Bike is
• 55:22
  Speaker 12: the base, I can say, one of the best international
• 55:25
  Speaker 12: model of private and public working. Today we leave motivated
• 55:31
  Speaker 12: in d O t the city is running the largest
• 55:35
  Speaker 12: city bike that they have in any part of the
• 55:39
  Speaker 12: of the world.
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: So thank you for that announcing.
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: So but I was closely saying that, you know, I've
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: been active base, I've been a teacher, being a councole member.
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: By commissioner coming goal and one day, Calina, we're not.
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: A console member. I was counsome member. One day we'll
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: not be commissioner. By you.
• 55:57
  Speaker 12: Who are you know, the leaders of the sitution that
• 56:00
  Speaker 12: represent the city across the five or row through different
• 56:04
  Speaker 12: socio economic any community. You are responsible to keep expanding
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: this type of initiative. So on behalf of Major Eric
• 56:12
  Speaker 12: Adens the city. You always say thank you to everyone.
• 56:16
  Speaker 12: Let's get ready to do the best thing on Saturday,
• 56:19
  Speaker 12: April twenty six and let's want to take the photo
• 56:22
  Speaker 12: as we did it before in the chair that if
• 56:27
  Speaker 12: time is square line, then we do it.
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: They well do it right from the window and we
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: will be behind the rich chair.