New York City’s needed e-bike crackdown: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The lack of critical repercussions for harmful e-biking in New York City.
I’m curious to know how many accidents should happen earlier than the Department of Transportation focuses on pedestrian security, quite than the comfort of cyclists (“Progs’ E-Bike Insanity,” Editorial, May 31).
In my neighborhood, a two-way bicycle lane was put in on Plaza Street East — a one-way avenue.
Now pedestrians should additionally keep in mind to watch for e-bike cyclists coming from the other direction of the car visitors circulate.
I wrote to the DOT about this and obtained a response saying, “We don’t typically add additional signage because the more signage you add, the easier it is for people to ignore them. So, we try to minimize safety signage.”
At this level, I’ve given up requesting help with this hazardous scenario.
Perhaps The Post’s articles will end in getting somebody’s consideration.
Neil Berman
Brooklyn
This is an element of a giant hypocrisy of the left: When somebody is doing one thing that comports with their leftist ideology — like law-flouting bikers, fare beaters or unlawful immigrants — the left is okay with it.
But with regards to driving a car or carrying a gun within the metropolis — two innately constitutional actions — the left prohibits it or taxes it and tolls it to death.
D.M. Markowitz
Schenectady
I used to be almost hit by an e-bike whereas strolling on a Queens sidewalk and narrowly escaped damage.
To bolster public security, the Legislature should cross “Priscilla’s Law,” named after a pedestrian killed by an e-bike in Manhattan in 2023.
It would require all e-bikes and e-scooters to be registered and show license plates for legal accountability.
(I’d add an insurance coverage requirement.)
That’s accountable law enforcement, not racist focusing on, as claimed by City Council member Lincoln Restler.
Those who violate visitors legal guidelines should be prosecuted, regardless of their immigration standing.
Richard Reif
Queens
Thank you, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Someone lastly has seen bikes as a large drawback.
I keep in mind the blind gentleman I as soon as helped cross First Avenue.
He instructed me he isn’t afraid of automobiles, however that he fears the bikes.
J.J. Levine
Miami Beach, Fla
It is miraculous that the 3-year-old woman survived the current bike incident in Brooklyn.
Eight months in the past, I used to be hit by an electric CitiBike going the unsuitable method at West 60 Street and Broadway.
I had the inexperienced mild — but the bike owner, a 14-year-old male, was let go with out a summons.
The security of pedestrians ought to supersede the rights of motor automobiles, every kind of bicycles and motorized scooters.
Karen O’Brien
Manhattan
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The Issue: Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign to turn into the subsequent mayor of New York City.
Ken Girardin listed many legitimate explanation why Zohran Mamdani shouldn’t be the subsequent mayor of New York (“ ‘Free’ Fallacy,” May 2).
Unfortunately, these causes are some people’s arguments for why he needs to be the subsequent mayor.
It is gloomy that New York City is simply not “bad enough yet” for the voters to comprehend they’ll’t keep voting for any one who has a D after their identify.
Warren Stuart
New City
The metropolis of my beginning is on the trail of no return with socialist Mamdani within the race for mayor.
If it weren’t for my grandkids, I’d transplant to the free purple state of South Carolina.
No one can save this metropolis; the self-hating Jews will vote for an antisemite just because of the D after his identify.
Mike Santavicca
Yonkers
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