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NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez Joins OneLegUpAlex At Yankee Stadium 6-6-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you're a Yankee Stadium on Friday night, you
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  Speaker 2: saw the Department of Transportation commissioner you Donis Rodriguez, who
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  Speaker 2: used to be a counselman, by the way, one an
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  Speaker 2: upgrade from counselman and commissioner. And he was in the
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  Speaker 2: lobby of Yankee Stadium during that rain delay on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: And as I say in the recording, you just never
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  Speaker 2: know who stops by, even at the lobby of Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: One leg up with Alex Garrett. Commissioner Rodriguez, station says, well,
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  Speaker 2: you never know who you're gonna meet a Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Commissioner Rodriguez, I remember you as counselman, and now you're
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  Speaker 3: commissioning the DOT for the last few years. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: you're ready for your first pitch a Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I believe a great he's a good grain you
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  Speaker 1: know today and I mean he's the owner again to
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  Speaker 1: be here to promote our Vision zero campaign to educate drivers,
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  Speaker 1: so please slow down to look for petitions and cyclists
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  Speaker 1: in New York City had been doing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great word last year. We are the lowest numbers of
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  Speaker 1: petition fatality for the last couple of years, and we
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  Speaker 1: are committed to make twenty and twenty five another lowers
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  Speaker 1: year since for the last one hundred thirty years where
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  Speaker 1: traffic fatality should be going down.
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  Speaker 3: Now you know, Mary Blager said, as you came in
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  Speaker 3: the Items administration, how have you changed the Vision zero
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  Speaker 3: program expission?
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  Speaker 1: I think of the first of all, in twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: I was the chairman of Temputation Committee, so I also
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  Speaker 1: worked with Mayor the blast Melissa mavb It was a speaker,
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  Speaker 1: and then with Corey Johnson we continue working around Vision zero.
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  Speaker 1: I also passed a three mass applying on the mytik
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  Speaker 1: as a chairman of Temportation Committee. As you know and
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  Speaker 1: now mich committment has been to make our public space
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  Speaker 1: more accessible. Under this administration, we have built one point
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  Speaker 1: five millions of feet of petition space and this is
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  Speaker 1: the time where no other ammunistration has accomplished the lowers
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  Speaker 1: the numbers of petition space that we have for me
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  Speaker 1: is a great moment that we are However, for mayor
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  Speaker 1: others and for me, one day is too many, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why we are also asking Obani to reauthorize our
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  Speaker 1: Vision zero for the next five years.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's amazing. Well talk about accessibility, I understand the
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  Speaker 3: tabs now become more accessible in New York City. That's
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  Speaker 3: the news this week, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, as I just said before the
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  Speaker 1: five year about the five years and of the Division zero,
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  Speaker 1: what we are trying to get albans to reauthorize our
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  Speaker 1: speed commer. That will aspire by John Terry and we
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  Speaker 1: are asking all leaders obany to please reauthorize the speed
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  Speaker 1: commer for the next five years. When it comes to
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  Speaker 1: our vote for the future, it's about continue making the
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  Speaker 1: city the safest one for the nation. We have to
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  Speaker 1: look for each other. Every drive had to look for
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  Speaker 1: petitions and cycling. But now, as you know, Mayo Adans
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  Speaker 1: is working together. We know to reduce the spill limit
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  Speaker 1: to fifty miles prin hours to those who are using
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  Speaker 1: in buying. Our goal is to continue making New York
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  Speaker 1: City the safest one not only in the nation, but
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  Speaker 1: one of the safest one in the whole law.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Commissioner, how is it working on the federal level
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  Speaker 3: with Commissioner You know Secretary Duffin.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Donald show his team the US DOT in his
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  Speaker 1: first time New York City on at that time, mejo
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  Speaker 1: the Glass and commission a police rumber. We worked with
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  Speaker 1: the federal government, and we continue working with the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: We brought the US Secretary Transportation to go under the
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  Speaker 1: b QUE so that he could see how critic as
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  Speaker 1: the BIQU. So we had a great team at New
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  Speaker 1: York City DOT that will continue working with the federal governments.
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  Speaker 1: I hold that the federal government will understand that New
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  Speaker 1: York City is the heart of this nation and that's
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  Speaker 1: why it's so important that we continue getting all the
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  Speaker 1: support necessary to be bask in infrastructure related top transportation.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, thank you, thanks see you.
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  Speaker 2: So that was very special to get to talk with
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  Speaker 2: the commissioner. And as I say, not often you get
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  Speaker 2: a TOT commissioner any kind of city AGC commission on
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, So when you do, it's a very much
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  Speaker 2: so an honor, and I believe that he is working
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  Speaker 2: hard to keep our city going. Eight million people, a
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  Speaker 2: million commuters really when you think about it, and it
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  Speaker 2: was great and we're going to do a follow up
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  Speaker 2: for sure with this team and in the coming days here.
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  Speaker 2: But there you go. Commissioner your Donis Rodriguez on the
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  Speaker 2: One Leg Up with Alex care podcast. I've got so
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  Speaker 2: much more to say about what's going on in LA.
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  Speaker 2: I'll maybe do that later on today, but for now,
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  Speaker 2: that was Commissioner Rodriguez. Thanks Agetting the Dot for you know,
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  Speaker 2: allowing him to come on the show. Right on the spot, Yankey,
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  Speaker 2: Sam and things were Yankee, same connections for you know,
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  Speaker 2: letting to stand in the right place at the right
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  Speaker 2: time at Yankee City. M