After DoorDash Spends $2.8 Million to Influence NYC’s Elections, Transportation Alternatives Calls on the City Council to Regulate Delivery App Companies
DoorDash contributed a total of $2.8 million to super PACs for the June primary elections in NYC.
$1 million of DoorDash’s money went to Fix The City, a super PAC that spent $7.67 million on attack ads.
Food delivery workers have the most dangerous job in New York City, with 36 deaths for every 100,000 workers — 5x as fatal as construction work.
NEW YORK — Transportation Alternatives is calling for the City Council to regulate delivery app companies operating in New York. These regulations would require business practices that protect workers and the public — just as the City regulated app-based for-hire vehicle companies.
Regulations that would protect delivery workers and New Yorkers at large could include requirements on data sharing, responsibilities to set safe routes and realistic delivery times, protections from deactivation for failing to comply with unsafe routes and unrealistic delivery times, and access to safe delivery vehicles, such as speed-limited e-bikes, available to all workers. The City Council has the power to create this regulatory system today.
In an effort to quash commonsense regulations, DoorDash was a major funder of outside spending in the June 2025 primary elections, contributing $2.8 million in total, split between two super PACs: Fix The City, Inc. and Local Economies Forward NY. As has been widely reported, DoorDash contributed $1 million to Fix The City, Inc. According to the NYC Campaign Finance Board’s records, Fix The City, Inc. spent $7.67 million on negative ads and mailers.
According to CFB records, DoorDash was the sole funder of Local Economies Forward NY, contributing $1.8 million to the super PAC. As reported by The City, DoorDash attempted to hide some of their spending by using their super PAC to fund a different super PAC, Competent New York, with $150,000 — likely to avoid their company’s name appearing in the required disclosure box.
Statement from Ben Furnas, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives:
“DoorDash tried to buy our city’s elections, spending millions in an attempt to protect a dangerous status quo, where delivery app companies operate without regulations and sow chaos on New York City streets for profit. We need commonsense safeguards on these companies that keep pedestrians, delivery workers, people on bikes, and all New Yorkers safe — and the City Council has the power to do it today.”
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