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NextImg:New York City’s needed e-bike crackdown: Letters to the Editor — June 6, 2025

The Issue: The lack of serious repercussions for dangerous e-biking in New York City.

I’m curious to know how many injuries must occur before the Department of Transportation focuses on pedestrian safety, rather than the convenience of cyclists (“Progs’ E-Bike Insanity,” Editorial, May 31).

In my neighborhood, a two-way bicycle lane was installed on Plaza Street East — a one-way street.

Now pedestrians must also remember to watch for e-bike cyclists coming from the opposite direction of the automobile traffic flow.

I wrote to the DOT about this and got a response saying, “We don’t typically add additional signage because the more signage you add, the easier it is for people to ignore them. So, we try to minimize safety signage.”

At this point, I’ve given up requesting assistance with this hazardous situation.

Perhaps The Post’s articles will result in getting someone’s attention.

Neil Berman

Brooklyn

This is part of a giant hypocrisy of the left: When someone is doing something that comports with their leftist ideology — like law-flouting bikers, fare beaters or illegal immigrants — the left is fine with it.

But when it comes to driving a car or carrying a gun in the city — two innately constitutional activities — the left prohibits it or taxes it and tolls it to death.

D.M. Markowitz

Schenectady

I was nearly hit by an e-bike while walking on a Queens sidewalk and narrowly escaped injury.

To bolster public safety, the Legislature must pass “Priscilla’s Law,” named after a pedestrian killed by an e-bike in Manhattan in 2023.

It would require all e-bikes and e-scooters to be registered and display license plates for legal accountability.

(I would add an insurance requirement.)

That’s responsible law enforcement, not racist targeting, as claimed by City Council member Lincoln Restler.

Those who violate traffic laws must be prosecuted, regardless of their immigration status.

Richard Reif

Queens

Thank you, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

Someone finally has seen bikes as a tremendous problem.

I remember the blind gentleman I once helped cross First Avenue.

He told me he is not afraid of cars, but that he fears the bikes.

J.J. Levine

Miami Beach, Fla

It is miraculous that the 3-year-old girl survived the recent bike incident in Brooklyn.

Eight months ago, I was hit by an electric CitiBike going the wrong way at West 60 Street and Broadway.

I had the green light — yet the cyclist, a 14-year-old male, was let go without a summons.

The safety of pedestrians should supersede the rights of motor vehicles, all types of bicycles and motorized scooters.

Karen O’Brien

Manhattan

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The Issue: Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to become the next mayor of New York City.

Ken Girardin listed many valid reasons why Zohran Mamdani should not be the next mayor of New York (“ ‘Free’ Fallacy,” May 2).

Unfortunately, those reasons are some people’s arguments for why he should be the next mayor.

It is sad that New York City is just not “bad enough yet” for the voters to realize they can’t keep voting for any person who has a D after their name.

Warren Stuart

New City

The city of my birth is on the path of no return with socialist Mamdani in the race for mayor.

If it weren’t for my grandkids, I would transplant to the free red state of South Carolina.

No one can save this city; the self-hating Jews will vote for an antisemite simply because of the D after his name.

Mike Santavicca

Yonkers

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