Summonses for running red lights and other offenses remain above even the initial surge in ticket-writing that came with the April 28 announcement of the criminal crackdown. As a result, thousands of cyclists and e-bike riders, including many immigrant delivery workers, have become ensnared in the criminal court system. Workers' boosters called on Mamdani to issue a moratorium on the criminalization of cycling.
The Post took to the streets with a speed gun and found lots of e-bike users going way over 15 mph. Part of the problem, in the tabloid's eyes, is that the e-bike riders don't have license plates. The bigger issue is that there's just so many of them. In the paper's words, "it is unclear how violators will be clocked."
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,
A 13-year-old girl was one of two teens found dead on top of a Brooklyn train overnight in what investigators believe may have been a fatal subway surfing incident, police sources said Saturday. Cops were called at 3:10 a.m. to the Marcy Avenue-Broadway subway station in Williamsburg, where they found the girls unconscious and unresponsive on the Brooklyn-bound J train, the sources said.