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Natalie Migliore, WOR reporter, interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's seven ten woars bet on the street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Natalie, you're dodging e bikes out there as you
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  Speaker 2: were retrieving comments from the citizens and bringing them up
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  Speaker 2: here to the suitets of seventh ten war.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's my daily Actually, it's not even what we're
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  Speaker 1: doing stories about e bikes that I'm dodging them. And
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  Speaker 1: that goes for e bikes, east scooters, and even regular cyclists,
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  Speaker 1: especially in this midtown area, because you know, the tourists
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  Speaker 1: are the ones who take out they rent these bikes
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  Speaker 1: and then they run up and down the streets. They
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  Speaker 1: go the wrong way because they don't understand the way
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  Speaker 1: the bike way. Yeah, they don't. I observed it yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're all tourists. I think it's a delivery drivers.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it is. I think, you know, you're absolutely right,
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  Speaker 1: but you definitely have a tourists in midtown Manhattan who
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  Speaker 1: are working up their way up Seventh Avenue to get
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  Speaker 1: to the park and Seventh Avenue's bike lane head south.
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  Speaker 1: Not nor can we agree they're all foreigners.
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  Speaker 2: They're all right.
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  Speaker 1: Look, it's been a big week though for e bikes
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  Speaker 1: and e scooters. With the city Council laying out a
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  Speaker 1: slew of proposals to crack down on safety in our
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  Speaker 1: streets with these things. Among the proposals are building out
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  Speaker 1: a licensing framework for delivery workers on these e bikes,
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  Speaker 1: requiring third party delivery apps to submit their driver's ID
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  Speaker 1: numbers and verify that the mopeds or whatever these vehicles
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  Speaker 1: are used by drivers are registered correctly. And that's just
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  Speaker 1: three of the dozen. And yet with more than a
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  Speaker 1: dozen proposals, there isn't anything solid on insurance or a
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  Speaker 1: clear path to licensing.
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  Speaker 4: I have not seen any valid reason why e bikes
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  Speaker 4: and the motorized scooters cannot be licensed. The arguments I've
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  Speaker 4: seen are nonsense. If it's a burden to the drivers,
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  Speaker 4: the e bike drivers whom I sympathize with five bucks
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  Speaker 4: five bucks a year, but there needs to be accountability
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  Speaker 4: and playing around with you know, twenty miles an hour
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  Speaker 4: is twenty twenty five. That's nonsense because it's not enforced anyway.
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  Speaker 2: The e bikes aren't covered.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get compensation if there's an accident? Because
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  Speaker 1: I came very close to being hit any bike, So
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  Speaker 1: I think New York needs to do something to regulate them.
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  Speaker 1: There's some kind of regulation and is none right now?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: The city council is putting a lot on making sure
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  Speaker 1: these e bikes and eastcooters are safely operated and actually
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  Speaker 1: allowed to be on city streets, But it seems like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the onus falls on delivery companies and
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  Speaker 1: restaurants when you really look at the legislation, leading to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions about fairness.
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  Speaker 2: Should it be the person who hires that delivery person,
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  Speaker 2: Is that the individual who was hired who's given the
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  Speaker 2: bike to use, or is the person who hires him
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  Speaker 2: who should be responsible for providing him with a bike
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  Speaker 2: that's safe.
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  Speaker 5: Any company or restaurants or whatever, they should have insurance
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  Speaker 5: to cover any incidents.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the mayor laid out his own plan, essentially banning
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  Speaker 1: e bikes that go over twenty five miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: and east scooters that go up to twenty miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: The responsibility falls to more than forty retailers, including Amazon, Walmart,
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  Speaker 1: and believe it or not, Wayfair. You can find any
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  Speaker 1: bike on way Fair for just under one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So he put out ceased and desist letters to all
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  Speaker 1: of these retailers the mayor yesterday. But this East scooter
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  Speaker 1: rider says he's in the clear.
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  Speaker 5: They only run like eighteen miles per hour and I
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  Speaker 5: hardly never use it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what the appropriate speed is, but I
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  Speaker 4: do think that, you know, more and more people are
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  Speaker 4: getting hurt and killed, and I hope they don't do
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  Speaker 4: half measures, which is usually what they do do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't always assume it's the fourth of the driver,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a bicycle or a claw. There are many
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  Speaker 2: times you're gonna got out into the street, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do something foolish. You're not gonna look both ways or
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  Speaker 2: all four ways of five ways, depending on where you are.
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  Speaker 1: So what was that? What was that face?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: Because he was he.
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  Speaker 3: Just blaming the pedestrians.
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  Speaker 1: No, he said that he doesn't always assume that it's
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  Speaker 1: your driver's fault. Yeah, so, and and it could be,
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  Speaker 1: but it could also not.
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  Speaker 3: Know very rare, it's very rare where it's the pedestrian's fault.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how many times have you gone across the
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  Speaker 3: street here and almost getting hit by a bike.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but how many a lot? And how many times
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  Speaker 1: have you been on the street driving? Because we all
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  Speaker 1: drive through this. Well, you walk through the city, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: but you and I we drive to get here, right,
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  Speaker 1: So how many times are you behind the delivery worker
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  Speaker 1: they're playing on their phone. This happened to me this
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  Speaker 1: morning at five o'clock, and playing on their phone. And
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  Speaker 1: then you've got to they're not paying attention. So if
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  Speaker 1: somebody crosses the street, they're looking at their phone. You're
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  Speaker 1: waiting at the light because you can't go around them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very complicated, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that happens once in a while, but it happens
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  Speaker 3: almost every day with an e bike, almost every day.
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  Speaker 3: And they're breaking a rule. And by the way, any
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  Speaker 3: of the seventeen bills that they're talking about in city council,
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  Speaker 3: are they going to register and license these drivers.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about it? That was the first That was
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  Speaker 1: the first measure. You know how long it's been going on?
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  Speaker 1: Any way, what about some of the people out there
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  Speaker 1: who were lost in their own thought process with headphones on,
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  Speaker 1: listening not to us at seventh hen wor I can
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  Speaker 1: assure you because the agen Z is