NYC plans recharging stations for food delivery workers

The Associated Press ^ | October 3, 2022

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s thousands of food delivery workers will get places to recharge electric bike batteries, cellphones and themselves, under a city plan announced Monday to turn abandoned newsstands and other unused structures into facilities for the “deliveristas.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Mayor Eric Adams called the “hubs” a national first. It’s not yet clear how many will be built or exactly where and when; officials say they’re working to identify suitable locations on city property.

“Essential workers need the essential tools to do their jobs,” Adams, a Democrat, said at a news conference Monday outside one of the shuttered newsstands that could become a venue for the recharging hubs.

The hubs are to offer charging stations and a safe place to rest or take shelter from bad weather. (As for restrooms, a city law that took effect in January guarantees delivery workers the right to use restaurants’ facilities when collecting orders.)

[HartleyMBaldwin]

When I used to commute by bicycle, I learned to stay off the bike paths. Too many idiot pedestrians, half of whom were walking completely untrained dogs. That was even before the homeless infested everywhere.

I preferred to take my chances in traffic.

[EVO X]

Profit? Profit doesn't even factor into their equations. They're in the business of grabbing taxpayer money.

That is my conjecture also..