Verra Mobility Provides Business Update
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MESA, Ariz., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Verra Mobility (NASDAQ: VRRM), a leading provider of smart mobility technology solutions, announces that it has received authorization to proceed with an order for 720 additional school zone speed cameras for the New York City Department of Transportation ( NYCDOT ). This authorization is related to Mayor DeBlasio s May 24, 2019 announcement regarding NYCDOT s intention to rapidly and substantially scale up its school zone speed-camera program. Under this expanded program, Verra Mobility has already installed 1,020 speed safety cameras through 2020 and expects to install the additional 720 cameras in 2021. Details on New York City s Vision Zero program can be found here.
Is Musk muscling in on Uber? Moped-sharing start-up reveals plans to launch Tesla ride-hailing service in NYC
Revel announced plans to start its own ride-share service in Manhattan with a fleet of 50 bright blue electric Tesla Model Y
vehicles
The announce comes after the company suspended moped-shares for 60 days last summer after the deaths of three different riders
Revel faces a dozen different lawsuits for liability and safety of its moped-shares
Revel announced plans for the ride-share service offering drop-offs and pick-ups in Manhattan below 42nd street
I recently launched my campaign for Borough President of Manhattan; due to a complicated series of events not relevant to this post, I am running with the Libertarian endorsement. Once I start participating in candidate forums (Zoom or otherwise), I expect to be asked about bicycle or pedestrian improvements. In the context of New York City, this usually means taking a lane or two of a major street s space away from cars and giving it to cyclists and pedestrians. For example, Transportation Alternatives proposes using 25 percent of the city s parking and road space for bus lanes, bike lanes, and open space (among other things).
VeoRide, Lime and Bird to participate in its much-anticipated dockless scooter pilot program.
The pilot program will be in a section of the East Bronx, with companies expected to deploy 1,000 scooters each by the early summer.
NYCDOT said the pilot program will now enter a community engagement phase, with the three companies to work with communities to site parking areas and educate the public about dockless scooters and the pilot program s safety, equity and accessibility components.
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New York City has long been seen as one of the last great untapped markets by dockless scooter companies, as state law prohibited their use until last year. That changed when Gov. Andrew Cuomo added a policy proposal to a budget bill legalizing their use, and the state legislature agreed. The New York City Council then moved quickly to approve a local pilot program.