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Council passes bill requiring advertisers to keep bus-shelter footprints clean
Summary
The City Council adopted Intro 4-16A, sponsored by Council member Justin Sanchez, requiring concessionaires that profit from bus-shelter advertising to regularly clean and maintain the immediate area around shelters; the measure was approved as part of the coupled general orders calendar.
Council member Justin Sanchez introduced Intro 4-16A, titled in his remarks as a measure to ensure private concessionaires clean and maintain the areas around bus shelters and transit structures. "If you profit from our public space, you must help take care of it," Sanchez said, framing the bill as an effort to protect quality of life for the more than "over 1,000,000 New Yorkers [who] ride the bus every day." Sanchez told colleagues sanitation workers should not have to "pick up the slack for private companies that are obligated to maintain their own footprint."
The bill, described…
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