By Carol Tannenhauser
Last week, the governor’s office issued a press release headlined: “Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Encourage the Safe Use of E-Bikes and Lithium-Ion Batteries and Protect New Yorkers.”
Streetsblog, the publication of the nonprofit advocacy group Open Plans, headlined its story about the legislation: “Moped and E-Bike Safety Legislation Becomes State Law.” The Daily News went with “Gov. Hochul Signs Battery Bill, Other E-Bike Safety Measures Into Law.” Finally, it sounded like the city’s “e-bike problem” was being addressed.
But was it? Well, yes and no.
Yes, steps have been taken to lessen the dangers of lithium-ion batteries, which power many of these vehicles, and which, in New York City in the last year alone, “sparked 268 fires that injured 150 people and claimed 18 lives,” according to the Daily News. Now, lithium-ion batteries sold in New York state must meet industry safety standards or sellers will face stiff fines. Four other bills regarding lithium-ion batteries were also signed into law by Gov. Hochul last Thursday, with much media attention. Streetsblog listed them as follows:
- Retailers are required to provide operating manuals for bikes or scooters with lithium-ion batteries.
- Retailers must affix a notice on e-bikes and mopeds to remind riders to yield to pedestrians and follow traffic laws.
- State agencies must develop and maintain safety resources related to e-bikes and mopeds.
- New training materials must be given to first responders for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries.
The three remaining bills in the eight-bill package signed by Hochul have to do with “limited use motorcycles, such as mopeds, motorbikes, and e-scooters,” the legislation says, but they do not define “motor bikes or e-scooters.” Mopeds already have to be registered in New York state but rarely are, the Daily News reported. Now, they must be registered and licensed at the point of sale by the vendor, and safety information must be given to the new owners of both mopeds and e-bikes.
Finally, perhaps the most significant new law is one requiring “police and [other] officers investigating an accident with an e-bike or e-scooter that results in death or injury…[to] make a report to the Department of Motor Vehicles, consistent with current requirements for motor vehicles and motorcycles,” according to a NY state press release.
“The current DMV form does not include an option for e-bikes, making it difficult to track collision data and assess the associated risks,” wrote New York State Assemblymember Alex Bores, who represents the eastside of Manhattan, including the Upper East Side, and sponsored the bill. “This lack of data hinders our ability to develop an effective plan to reduce crashes. Including an option to report that the vehicle involved in the collision was an e-bike will provide clear data necessary to understand the risks and create strategies to enhance safety.”
So, will the city’s e-bike problem be alleviated by these new laws?
Somewhat, perhaps, when it comes to battery fires, although the law does not address existing batteries already in circulation.
But the answer is “no” when it comes to the problem as most people seem to experience and define it: a combination of errant behavior and disregard of traffic laws by e-bike riders (who accuse pedestrians of the same thing), and a lack of enforcement of those laws.
We reached out for comment to the NYC/E-Vehicle Safety Alliance (NYC/EVSA), a grassroots organization with over 850 members, including 81 pedestrians and cyclists who have been involved in e-vehicle crashes. We also reached out to Transportation Alternatives, with a self-reported membership of “thousands,” whose stated mission is “to take the city back from cars” and “increase access to the street for people walking, biking, and riding public transit.”
We will update this article if and when the groups respond.
UPDATE, 2/15, 6:25 p.m.: WSR received the following response from Janet Schroeder, co-founder and leader of NYC-EVSA:
“NYC-EVSA is thrilled that [the bill] requiring mopeds to have registration and license at the point of sale was signed into law. We are grateful to Senator Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblymember Alex Bores for writing this bill. We are also proud of the fact that NYC-EVSA asked for this bill to be written.
We also highly support [the bill] to change the DMV 103 form by adding moped and e-bike categories, so that the specific type of vehicle involved in a crash will be reported.
The e-bike battery-safety bills are also common-sense laws that we support fully.
What is missing is one of the most important bills of all, ‘Priscilla’s Law,’ which requires registration of all e-vehicles. Accountability is the way to change the ongoing egregious riding behavior of many riders on both e-Citibikes and commercial e-bikes. This law will save lives and mitigate injuries of pedestrians, cyclists and e-bike riders. Consequence shapes behavior, and currently, there is no consequence for the lawless riding of e-vehicles and fleeing the scene of crashes.”
The new laws are scheduled to take effect 180 days from July 11, 2024.
Correction: We originally said Assemblymember Alex Bores is from Long Island. Instead, he represents the eastside of Manhattan, including the Upper East Side.
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Definitely not nearly enough. There’s no logic in law, so often, when it fails to recognize the core issue. Just because technology is involved, it does not change the simple reality. Any bicycle powered by any means other than the rider is the same as any other motor vehicle. Just because a business transaction is online, it doesn’t mean existing consumer protection laws would not apply. So much government time is wasted by having to produce micro-managing laws like this.
Talk about a nothing burger. We need laws to fully protect pedestrians against ebikes and any motorized vehicle on our street (and sidewalks). Anything less is an insult to the citizens of this city.
It isn’t difficult. I just requires politicians to remember who they are elected to represent.
The laws exist, but the NYPD and Adams refuse to enforce them.
Email Linda Rosenthal and tell her that you’ll be leaving her ballot line blank come election day. (Hoylman-Sigal isn’t up for re-election in Nov.)
Sadly, e-bikes and e-scooters with an engine size over 50cc do not require a license in NYC. People have been injured and killed by these vehicles, and there is no way to track these drivers.
We’re screwed.
Eric,
Here’s the NYS DMV website listing licensing, insurance, and other requirements for gasoline powered scooters. It says nothing about engine CCs, but classes the machines by how fast they can go:
dmv.ny dot gov/registration/register-moped#:~:text=You%20must%20have%20a%20driver,according%20to%20its%20top%20speed.
Furthermore, almost all classes of these machines require a drivers license and liability coverage. Throttle e-bikes, as long as they’re the speed limited type favored by delivery guys, don’t require these things.
Eric,
E-bikes don’t have engines with CCs. You’ve confused petrol powered scooters with e-bikes. And petrol powered scooters require liability insurance.
It would be the small ones, under 50ccs, that don’t require the drivers to have licenses.
Also, my comment said nothing about licensing throttle e-bike drivers. I said, that the NYPD and Adams won’t enforce the existing laws against e-bikes being, for example, driven against traffic.
So how is it going to be safer for pedestrians to cross the street when electric vehicles disregard all rules with no consequences? Also why not have a buyback program where all unsafe lithium batteries are turned in and a coupon is given towards buying a safe battery. It would be worth it since the damage caused by unsafe batteries would be so much more costly to the city and its residents.
The law needs to step in where Etiquette has failed.
E bikes together with unbridled bicycles are high speed tunnels of stress slashing indiscriminately through the tranquillity and pace of pedestrian life.
Nobody is suggesting banning bicycles. But I for one, would like to see basic rules enforced to keep cyclists of all kinds from invading the space of pedestrians on sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths.
There are designated roads for cars, designated lanes for bicycles, why can’t there be designated walks for pedestrians?
There are designated walks for pedestrians. They are called sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths. The problem is with the bikes and e-vehicles that simply disregard them and their enablers – the NYPD.
There are. They’re called sidewalks. The problem is, most operators of bicycles (of all kinds), scooters, etc. ignore the laws prohibiting them from using their vehicles on sidewalks.
It’s a gross exaggeration to say that most operators ride on the sidewalks. It happens with far less frequency than hair-on-fire people claim. Illegal crossing by pedestrians puts them in danger far more frequently.
Hyperbole or not, this activity is so frequent, so unaddressed, and so very dangerous. Go ahead, prove your thesis about who the causes the most danger…..meanwhile what are you doing to help? I call out every cyclist I see on the sidewalks…all day long. Does anyone else? Just me and a handful of women.
Yeah!! I’m that crazy guy on 83rd Street yelling at the bikes on the sidwalk
I call them out constantly. Sometimes, as in the case of tourists who don’t know any better, they thank me and dismount in the park. More often they curse me or simply ignore me. On a good day, my approach is, with a smile, “Would you mind riding your bike in the street. This is only for pedestrians. ” That generally gets better results than when I scream, “Shame on you,” or “You know better, ” or worse. Other times, a thumbs down conveys my sentiments loudly and clearly.
“The law needs to step in where Etiquette has failed.” Perfectly stated. Thanks.
Per the WSR photo of two teens doubled up on Citibike…
Over past 2 years, have been seeing so many teens doubled up, parents with kids on stand-up e-scooters and quite a few parents with kids on mopeds/vespas.
So dangerous for them and everyone else.
Folks should use bus and subway
Nice photo above. I hope the young man on the handlebars survives his childhood, if not the summer.
No helmets, They are a danger unto themselves….Need laws to require helmets and officers to ticket the no users with a heavy fine.
Helmet laws do exist. “All bicycle riders up to age 14 must wear approved helmets. Commercial cyclists: New York City law requires all commercial cyclists to wear securely fastened, properly fitted helmets that are in good condition. Employers are required to ensure that their commercial cyclists wear helmets.”
Good luck with that.
Corey Johnson, then-speaker of the City Council, prevented an adult helmet law from even being introduced. He said, “It’s safer to rider without a helmet.”. He took his lines straight out of Transportation Alternatives’ playbook.
Mandated only for children 14 and younger, BUT mandatory for commercial cyclists regardless of age.
Good God. I wonder if Republicans could do any better.
Ebikes became legal when the Democrats regained their majority in the state legislature and also had a Democratic governor (Cuomo). Every Dem. in the Assembly, and every Dem. except Liz Krueger in the Senate, voted in favor of legalizing ebikes with no requirements for licensing, registration, or insurance. The City Council, completely controlled by Democrats, then followed suit. The Republicans couldn’t do any worse.
Meaningless unless the NYPD starts doing enforcement, which it won’t.
Electronically limiting the e-scooters and e-mopeds to 10 MPH is the only real solultion.
Absurdly limited scope of legislation is not the problem. Implementing and enforcing bans are the keys here. NYPD and elected officials just won’t do. it Legislation is easy, and legislators are quick to take credit for addressing a problem. Then what?
10 mph is slow even on a normal bike. Clearly you do not ride.
10 mph is FAST when aggressively invading the personal space of pedestrians. Clearly you do not walk.
Why would ebikes and scooters be limited to 10mph but cars are ok at 30mph?
Cars are not on the sidewalks and they usually stop for red lights. Funny I have not seen a bike stop for a red light in years!
I know this will be unpopular, but my pedestrian anecdata is that a not insignificant percentage of e-bikes plying our UWS streets are people who are delivering food or groceries to UWSers for whom time is money.
Has anyone actually tried to measure this, say by recording all the traffic on the Amsterdam or Columbus Ave bike lanes and using heuristics to analyze the captured images (e.g. mounted food carriers, weather-protected handlebars)?
All those talking about bans, laws, and enforcement, may want to consider that the demand-side (us) would be impacted by restrictions on the supply-side (them). TANSTAAFL
Finally, perhaps the most significant new law is one requiring “police and [other] officers investigating an accident with an e-bike or e-scooter that results in death or injury…[to] make a report to the Department of Motor Vehicles, consistent with current requirements for motor vehicles and motorcycles,”
Does this mean the police will have to come and file some sort of report when a pedestrian is hit and injured by an e-bike? Now they just don’t respond. If they did at least we ciuod get statistics about hiw many injuries there are each year.
CitiBike needs to get rid of the electric bike – or assume responsibility for the riders. So far this summer the amount of people going through red lights, on sidewalks with these bikes has been ridiculous and dangerous. Bad enough citi bike riders don’t obey street laws, now with amplified power they are more than a menace.
The only way to tame the chaos on our streets caused by bike riders breaking the law is to enforce the law. Write tickets. Impose fines. Collect fines. We need a blizzard of ticket writing and we need that blizzard to last a while and be heavily publicized so that these entitled fools get the message that the free for all is over. All of this should have been done 2-3 years ago. It would have been if the Department of Transportation worked for us instead of for the malevolent bicycle lobbyists at Transportation Alternatives. NYC needs an influx of cash. Punish bike riders for their dangerous and reckless behavior by fining them early and often. That should swell the city’s coffers and I’ll bet they’ stop riding against traffic, on sidewalks and through red lights pretty quickly. Enough is enough. Join NYCEVSA.org
Fun fact: DoT doesn’t do enforcement, that’s NYPD’s job; which I agree they should be doing more of. Maybe if they were patrolling the neighborhood on foot/bike instead of sitting in their vehicles on their phones…
Of course the NYPD enforces the law but the NYC Dept of Transportation under its current and former commissioners have blocked efforts to facilitate enforcement by opposing licensing and registration which the bicycle lobby they serve opposes. With no way to identify a bike rider on an e-bike going 25-30 miles an hour against traffic, how do you suppose they can write a ticket? Perhaps some NYPD officers are playing Candy Crush on their phones when you see them in their cars—but most are inputing their City Council required reports of their contacts with us citizens. I would urge you to attend your precinct’s Community Council monthly meetings where you can speak to the precinct’s leadership, express your views and ask for explanations. You will I’m sure gain a better understanding of what our police are up against. And please visit our website NYCEVSA.org
I have looked over the shoulder of many cops who are on their phones. What I saw was a lot of Facebook pages.
It would also help if pedestrians on the sidewalks blocked sidewalk riders on e-bikes coming at us and actually said something. Almost NOBODY says a think. It absolutely is for NYPD to act on this (and they don’t) but I think a silent public tolerating it is also a problem.
I am a senior citizen. I am not going to risk being attacked by a bike rider.
Eh I guess you could ask politely so the rider is aware but probably not a good idea to confront someone like that unless there is a real imminent danger. This is why we pay NYPD billions of dollars a year, is it really too much to ask that they do their jobs?
We have been an unfriendly walking city for quite some time. The Highline is about the only enjoyable walking area, although crowded you don’t have to constantly look out for something that is going to hit you at 20mph.
On my way to work today…..an inch away from being hit by a spandex-racing bicyclist.
It was a green light for pedestrians.
No cars – and then out of the blue the cyclist came speeding making a sharp right turn as pedestrians were in the crosswalk.
I walk, bike, and drive all over NYC almost every day.
The threats to my safety, and the degree of illegal or dangerous behavior that I see on the roads comes from the following categories, in order of severity / frequency:
1. Speeding car drivers / running red lights
2. Double parking (blocking bus or bike lanes, causes congestion, dangerous merging)
3. “Blocking the box” and crosswalks putting pedestrians at risk
4. Illegal / unregistered mopeds, typically speeding, often where they don’t belong
5. Delivery e-bikes flying through crosswalks past pedestrians, or going against one-way
I would like to enforce all of the laws, but if we must choose tradeoffs, I would like to prioritize car-related enforcement, as drivers kill or maim at 100x the rate of any other form of transportation in NYC.
For all the rudeness of cyclists going on sidewalks or through a red light, they very rarely endanger anyone but themselves (similar to pedestrians who cross when it is clear, even without a walk signal).
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/harlem-child-killed-struck-by-car/
I agree with Isaiah 100%. Cars are the real problem.
Gothamist just reported that more New Yorkers are killed by cars than guns so far this year.
https://gothamist.com/news/cars-prove-far-deadlier-than-guns-in-nyc-so-far-this-year
How sad that we are in the position of prioritizing the relative number of injuries and deaths by vehicle category and firearms.
If one death from an e-bike incident was your child or elderly parent, would you still be quoting statistics?
Obviously any injury is a tragedy but when you are trying to govern (to the extent that Adams is trying…) a city of 9 million people, you have to understand the statistics and prioritize accordingly.
To me, cars that try to beat the light and turn into crosswalks without yielding to pedestrians are dangerous. I agree that mopeds and e-bikes are also dangerous, but the car is much more likely to kill me.
I don’t think it is too much to ask for the laws regarding pedestrian safety to be enforced.
Every *day* we see stories where the driver doesn’t even receive a fine for killing someone. Here’s a recent one: https://gothamist.com/news/girl-3-killed-by-driver-in-harlem-while-in-the-crosswalk-with-her-family-police-say.
Absolutely, I have had the exact same experience. I walk all over the UWS and feel my / my kids safety is much more threatened by speeding drivers and lack of daylighting at intersections. I do find the mopeds annoying & wish NYPD did more enforcement of both speeding cars and mopeds.
Isaiah,
IMO bicyclists definitely endanger pedestrians.
Citibike and racing bicyclists are the worst IMO.
Also please note that for various reasons, the City’s data on incidents caused by bicycles is very incomplete.
Vehicles are inherently more dangerous but most drivers follow rules whereas most bicyclists don’t. Moreover if one looked at data with the population as context (for example, number of vehicles/trips and number of bicycles/trips) guessing there’d be a higher percentage of incidents caused by bicyclists.
To clarify to your readers, EVSA has had influences which helped support and to get these bills passed. Making several trips up to Albany and meeting with many senators. This taking more than a year. We celebrate any progress to our goal towards “safety for all”.
Speaking of safety when a pedestrian is crossing the street they are not impacting a life or lives of an e-bike rider. Just the opposite. The E-bike rider who doesn’t follow traffic laws or ever yield to a pedestrian, can seriously mame, or kill. . The pedestrian is suppose to be able to cross the street without fear of being hit. Or in my case being hit and now permanently disabled.
Im so tired of the Rag “showing both sides” of this discussion. Why 2 years after the Rag reported “When My Life Changed in an Instant” are we still discussing safety for all.
Along with Lisa Baines, myself, Priscilla Loke, and our 85 victims of e-vehicle crashes, let’s get together. We can and should all be able to ride and walk as safe as we can.
I am glad we are “showing both sides.”
There is a lot of comments on lack of enforcement by NYPD. But can someone please explain how to enforce? The mopeds speed around in every direction. Chasing them with a police car will not work. On a police horse? Nope. Police on a bike/ebikes? – if they catch up to them, what are they supposed to do, jump off their bike and tackle them? Only chance is on a police motorcycle creating even more danger of a police chase on the streets. We need to introduce infrastructure to prohibit bad behavior – possibly speed bumps in bike lanes at intersections – that would get rid of mopeds in the bike lanes. Or requiring every bike to have a visible ID/license numbers so if Citibike gets enough complaints about a driver, they should be required to disable membership of the person assigned to that bike at that time. Same with delivery bikes. These companies do not want a flood of calls complaining about specific bikes traceable to specific drivers and would do something to help enforcement. We need more solution ideas.
Good suggestions. They should all be licensed.
There is no reason that the NYPD can’t catch illegal mopeds. Teams can corral them in nets after they’ve been spotted. This is especially a no-brainer on the Hudson River Greenway where illegal e-vehicles are numerous. Start confiscating bunches of them and keep doing it.
My husband was riding his bike on the Hudson Greenway when an Citibike ebike overtook him and tried to pass. He couldn’t even hear it. The guy then swore and swerved right into my husband. He thinks there was an oncoming bike the ebike rider hadn’t seen. It all happened so fast. With the mass of an ebike a regular bike stands no chance and down he went. Thank goodness he didn’t hit his head and many people stopped to help. He has deep bruised on his thighs and he had scrapes all over. He rides with a first aid kit but I want to thank everyone who stopped to help and the doctor who was riding who also stopped and looked at his thumb and said it didn’t look like it needed stitches despite how much it was bleeding.
Ebikes do not belong on the Hudson Greenway.
It won’t stop the lawlessness on our streets and the terror that we all feel. Until there is licensing and registration victims like me( I was run down in May 2023) will proliferate.
What we still need is for the police — especially in the 26 – to enforce the traffic laws. We need the riders of all vechiles to stop at stop lights, yield to pedestrians in crosswalks AND ride the correct way on the streets. In short – they should be treated the same as cars and trucks when it comes to traffic laws
You’re not breaking any new ground with those suggestions. It’s just constant repetition that goes nowhere. The NYPD needs to compartmentalize their approach, or they’ll accomplish nothing.
Perhaps Mr. Siegel is not breaking any new ground, but repetition will help it sink into the public psyche.
A small step, but avoiding the real and current danger of these riders ignoring safety rules ( going thru red lights., riding on sidewalks, not giving right of way). It is treacherous walking these days because of e-bikes and mopeds
The problem of pedestrians being hit and severely injured or killed by unlicensed, unregistered and unregulated e-vehicles has been completely overlooked by the Governor and the State Assembly as well as the City Council. I can’t imagine any other serious danger to the citizens of a major city being ignored as this has been by most of our elected leaders. And can only conclude it is because of the monied lobby Trans Alt who represent the delivery apps and car share companies like Lyft who own Citibike. So the Mayor and the DOT and Governor as well as the MBP who are fond of the donations coming from TA accept the collateral damage as the cost of doing business! Call and write the Governor and tell her to pass and sign Priscilla’s Law named for a New Yorker killed by a Citibike who ran a red light! License and register e-vehicles now! This way their reckless riding can be held to account. Traffic laws are meant to be followed not blown off! Join the only grass roots organization doing anything to protect the pedestrians of NY, nycevsa.org and fight for the safety of your neighbors and yourself!
NYC-EVSA is responsible for the legislation which just was passed! But it needs to go much further to make our streets safe.
Hooray for EVSA!
Grateful that you gave NYCEVSA the opportunity to make a statement. I’m the 4th of what is now well over 900 members. We really appreciate all of the support from local politicians, but, importantly, we have to relay that they are just nibbling around the edges of this problem. They all want to appear to be “doing something”, and these laws are incrementally moving that way. BUT, the only way that we will ever get this problem under control is to have all motorized vehicles that use our streets to be licensed, registered, inspected, and insured! These accountability measures will promote responsibility! Please urge your local elected officials to please support real e-bike reforms, like “Priscilla’s Law” as mentioned in the update. And, please go to the contact form on NYCEVSA.com and join us. We must be heard, and we are gaining momentum. Be the change!
The presence of anti-congestion pricing activists in this thread highlights the true nature of the obsession with e-bikes. Instead of pushing for genuine pedestrian safety improvements—which would naturally involve curbing car usage—these activists promote the “e-bikes are dangerous” narrative. Their real interest lies in maintaining excessive space for cars, which comes at the expense of taxpayers, air quality, and public spaces. If organizations like EVSA genuinely cared about safety, they would advocate for fewer cars and more protected bike lanes. Instead, they focus solely on restrictions and bans. Ask yourself why.
Ulrika,
As a lifelong New Yorker, I don’t know how to drive.
I walk, and use the bus and subway.
Bicyclists ignore traffic rules and endanger pedestrians.
It wasn’t always this way – Bloomberg unleashed the bicycle infrastructure but with zero accountability.
As we all know, NYC has a bus and subway system. For all of the MTA’s problems, it is bus and subway that should be used especially in Manhattan – not bikes.
Subway, you could easily have written the same thing and more logically concluded that it is bus/subway/bikes and not CARS that should be used in Manhattan. It’s bizarre, you are so close to getting it.
Actually City DOT Is undermining MTA bus and subway in various ways – DOT promotes bicycling/Citibike rather than use of MTA bus and subway and DOT has implemented “open street” closures forcing bus detours and other bus impact.
As I said – I don’t know how to drive.
I am not a suburban transplant
Hundreds of millions have been spent on bike lane and bike infrastructure, but not one penny has been spent on enforcementThe bike/e-bike problem will never be truly solved until the city stops spending money on bike lanes and other bike infrastructure and spends that money on a police/DOT task force to get armed agents out of their cars and on the streets and sidewalks to arrest lawbreakers and confiscate illegal vehicles. We already have enough existing laws to take back our city from these awful cyclists and ebikers and mopeds. Get the cops out of their cars and on the sidewalks!!!
When? Are you fixing the reply all feature.
We are working on it! In the meantime, try replying on a device other than your phone.
I would be careful about quoting Streetsblog and relying on Open Plans for any objective data at all. They’re both propaganda arms for Transportation Alternatives, which in turn is the privately funded tool of a very wealthy person determined to impose his ideas about the overweening rights of bike riders and the disposability of pedestrians and other city residents.
I agree with Buddy – the bicycle lobby consortium Transportation Alternatives, Open Plans, Streetsblog is not an objective source of information.
The bicycle lobby is focused on bicycling and what benefits bicyclists – not pedestrians, not mass transit.
The bike lobby is well-funded , powerful and successful .
The reason why people are able to ride mopeds without a license, ride bikes on the sidewalks, drive 50 MPH on city streets and blow through red lights? Our little blue snowflakes are holding us hostage. They do 50-60% of the job done in the past and still need overtime!
Numbers don’t lie: Citations issued May ’18 vs May ’24: 99,902 vs 60,415. Total citations written 2017: 1,059, 256 2018: 1,066,376 2019: 985,057 2021: 508,284 2022: 606,623 2023: 689,960.
What would we say if teachers all decided they would teach 5 hours a day AND give themselves a 20% salary bump?
To all you bike haters: Why do delivery drivers use the sidewalk? BECAUSE THEY CAN! Nothing will change until there is enforcement. Who enforces? NYPD! Instead of yelling about deliverista bad behavior, yell about the NYPD dereliction of duty. Numbers don’t lie.