"Twenty-twenty-five was like watching a slow-motion traffic crash. Little by little the corruption of the Adams administration came to light and in the mayor's desperate - but successful - attempt to get out of trouble with the feds we watched New York City's top Democrat capitulate to Donald Trump. As the Adams administration crashed and burned, it was New Yorkers on bikes who took the heat."
"The Department of Transportation delayed life-saving safety projects in favor of business interests, the mayor curried favor with a voting bloc by ripping out an already-installed protected bike lane, and the administration began treating cyclists like criminals, especially the immigrant workforce that relies on e-bikes. Let's just hope incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani doesn't repeat history. After all, Eric Adams also rode a bike on the campaign trail, made promises to bus riders, and "talked the talk" on livable streets."
Twenty-twenty-five unfolded as a prolonged governance collapse tied to corruption in the Adams administration. Officials prioritized political and business interests over public safety, delaying and dismantling life-saving bike infrastructure. An installed protected bike lane was removed to curry political favor, and enforcement rhetoric escalated to criminalize cyclists, with immigrant e-bike workers especially targeted. The Department of Transportation even opposed its own designs in court while judges approved removals of protected lanes. The sequence of actions shifted focus away from safety toward political survival, creating pressure for incoming leadership to avoid repeating those choices.
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