#delivery-workers

#delivery-workers

At its worst - like in last week's horrific fatal crash on Flushing Avenue - pedestrians and cyclists are injured or killed. Setting aside that car drivers cause virtually all the injuries and deaths on our streets, every time there is rare crash involving an illegal e-bike, naysayers capitalize by conflating them with safe, legal e-bikes to further an anti-bike agenda. And Mayor Adams has added to the confusion, launching a criminal crackdown on legal e-bikes that has ensnared all kinds of cyclists,

"Especially when it is hot in the summer," Rojas said. "Sometimes we get a flat tire, so sometimes we are far away from the bicycle shop."

"It's a great victory because we've been fighting for a long time to create worker protections," said delivery worker William Medina, 40.

Mayor Eric Adams claims that the Department of Sustainable Delivery will support delivery workers, enhance pedestrian safety, and hold delivery app companies accountable for pressure on gig workers.

The delivery workers are just doing the best they can to earn a living under conditions set by the app companies. Those companies bear the ultimate responsibility.

E-bike riders, are people that deliver food to our homes, and they have families as well. ... Had we done that collaboration together, we might have come up with a different solution other than 15 miles [per hour], which I believe is a penalty.