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NYC must rein in e-bikes now — and stop the carnage on our streets

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New York’s City Council, to its members’ credit, now sees the need to control the e-bikes and other motorized devices that have made Gotham’s streets more dangerous and less pleasant.

Its Wednesday hearing will launch debate on 23 bills and resolutions that could rein them in.

But the sheer number of proposals indicates confusion.

Councilmembers need to focus: E-bikes and scooters should offer no speed advantage over regular bikes.

For decades, New York’s street-safety story was one of success.

Traffic deaths tumbled from 701 in 1990 to 206 in 2018.  

Delivery woman killed in NYC’s Herald Square as dump truck plows into e-bike, drives off

Safety advocate blames Central Park redesign for pedestrian’s death as cyclist crashes rise

Citi Bike user reveals outrageous ‘hidden tax’ slapped onto every e-bike 

But bicycles weren’t a big part of that story.  

In 2007, the year New York got its first protected bike lane, the average number of annual cyclist deaths, smoothed out over three years, was 21.  

By 2019, the average annual number of cyclist deaths remained . . . 21.  

Yet the rate of deaths fell, as more people were cycling.  

That’s in part due to NYC’s policy choice to mitigate speed.  

In unrolling the Citibike bike-share program in 2013, Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s administration ensured that the blue bikes........

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