NYC’s e-bike crackdown: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The City Council takes up new payments to crack down on unlawful e-bikes in New York City.
I’m an avid bike owner and have personally noticed quite a few near-accidents on bike paths in current months.
Officials ought to think about laws that will require registration for high-speed e-bikes and scooters (“E-bike terrors put on notice,” Aug. 5).
E-bike security training needs to be required for individuals who register and there needs to be stronger enforcement in opposition to reckless using, dashing or unlawful actions.
Paul Feiner
Greenburgh
E-bikes which might be going 40 miles per hour needs to be licensed and using within the car lanes, following the principles of the highway as our bikes do.
Bike lanes needs to be for non-motorized bicycles solely as initially deliberate.
Alan Tlusty
SoHo
As the president of the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Civic Association, I spoke to our state and metropolis elected officers concerning the hazard of e-bikes and ATVs in not solely our group, however each group.
I requested a state official to introduce a invoice in Albany to register, insure and supply licenses to people who operate these harmful automobiles, and nothing was performed.
Now, City Council Speaker Julie Menin is lastly doing one thing about it.
It’s a disgrace that so many people have been injured or killed.
In plain English: It’s about time.
Kim F. Cody
Whitestone
With all of the current accidents and fatalities just lately, now metropolis officers are involved about e-bikes.
But this has been a significant issue for a few years. E-bikes are a hazard to pedestrians with no penalties.
If the City Council desires to manage e-bikes, it ought to permit solely people over 16 to experience them, restrict the bikes to speeds underneath 25 miles per hour and mandate insurance coverage so riders can take duty for accidents.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
Crackpot liberals within the metropolis have spent an inordinate quantity of time attempting to close down the carriage-horse industry.
Meanwhile, 1000’s are injured from crazed e-bike riders and 133 people have died since 2019.
But the police aren’t allowed to do something as a result of enforcement of even probably the most modest guidelines and rules is, of course, “racist.”
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
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The Issue: Families of 9/11 victims calling for Mayor Mamdani to not attend this 12 months’s memorial ceremony.
Mayor Mamdani isn’t wished on the upcoming 9/11 providers — nevertheless it’s not as a result of he’s Muslim (“ ‘Dude, we don’t want you here,’ ” Aug. 2).
His presence will not be wished as a result of his divisive ideology leads him to imagine America received what it deserved on that horrific day.
The narcissistic, unconscionable gall for him to suppose he’d be welcome wherever close to decrease Manhattan by these still-grieving households is nearly unbelievable.
The wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing nepo child has revealed his authentically inauthentic self, and the households of the 9/11 victims can’t look away.
Neither can the 1000’s of people who’ve signed the petition to inform this fraud to shed his crocodile tears elsewhere on 9/11.
Ray Arroyo
Westwood, NJ
Last February, scum pelted police officers with snowballs, leading to some officers even being hospitalized.
Our good mayor thought that was hilarious as he flashed his traditional radiant smile.
Perhaps these coming to the 9/11 memorial ought to convey eggs and tomatoes with them.
Then, if Mamdani can handle to interrupt from his embrace of unindicted co-conspirator Imam Siraj Wahhaj to be on the ceremony, these in attendance can pelt him so he can higher admire what our cops needed to endure on that winter’s day.
Edward Hochman
Manhattan
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