NYC wants to let 4-wheeled 500 pound CARGO BIKES use the bike lanes!!

[Text Drivers are Killers]

4 feet wide and 500 pounds! That ain't no bike. Truth is ALL motorized vehicles should be banned from bike lanes and that should include even the two-wheeled e bikes. Human powered vehicles only.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023...d-by-city-will-kill-cyclists-and-pedestrians/

sep 19 2023 Concerned New Yorkers and industry leaders are warning that the giant “green” delivery e-bikes currently being planned by the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) will kill cyclists and crowd bike lanes.

“If this passes, there is no doubt this will end in dead cyclists,” community member Joel Gelb warned at a public hearing last week regarding New York City’s DOT proposal, according to a report by W42ST.

In an effort to cut carbon emissions, the NYC’s DOT is planning to bring 500-pound, four-wheeled cargo bikes — that can be up to 48 inches wide and will have a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour — to the city’s streets.

While DOT initially planned to unveil these bikes by August of this year, it later announced a 30-day window for comment by the public. Over 100 industry leaders and concerned residents took advantage of the public hearing to express their concerns.

“It’s the end of bike lanes,” Gelb added. “We can’t call them bike lanes anymore if it’s open to four-wheel trucks that are electric-powered and 500 pounds.”[/I]

 

[Lionfish]

Who cares, NYC has fallen.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Who cares, NYC has fallen.

I care. If they do it here, they will do it in other states.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Mayor Adams is getting another big bribe for supporting this insanity. If they removed the 3 million illegals in the city, there would be plenty of room on the streets.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Remembering that SAFETY! is always the excuse when they make driving slower more difficult and more expensive.

Our overlords are just making it up as they go now.

Buckle Up Fuckers.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Works for me. Fuck those elitist snob bicyclists! They can deal with it just like all us vehicle drivers have to put up with their shit.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Works for me. Fuck those elitist snob bicyclists! They can deal with it just like all us vehicle drivers have to put up with their shit.

HUH??? Bicyclists do not want to be treated like car drivers.

 

[archives]

4 feet wide and 500 pounds! That ain't no bike. Truth is ALL motorized vehicles should be banned from bike lanes and that should include even the two-wheeled e bikes. Human powered vehicles only.

This post is just too funny, first off, Brietfart, what a joke, and secondly, shows “text,” and apparently the rest of the MAGA militia, have zero under of NYC, your chances of getting hurt by a messenger bike are far greater than these e-bikes could ever present.

It makes the streets, especially side streets, less congested, particularly with the stop and go routes of the Big Brown box trucks and alike

 

[T. A. Gardner]

 

[NiftyNiblick]

I view bicycles to be children's toys, not transportation vehicles,
and see no need for bike lanes at all.

Buy a fucking car!

This is one of my few inconsistencies
as I tend to be a Europhile
and they, unfortunately, take bicycles seriously.

There's that and liking baseball more than soccer.

Except for those, though, though, I think they've got things mostly right.

 

[Concart]

Another whiny thread from the forum pussy. You will never set foot in New York, and you sure as hell can't ride a bike.

 

[QP!]

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Terry I am curious if you think people who drive cars never speed, never change lanes with out signaling, never speedup thru a amber light when they should stop, etc, etc, etc?


I always laugh at car drivers honking and screaming at cyclists breaking a rule while at the exact same time they are breaking many rules.

Very typical, particularly of one segment of society to judge others actions as wrong while ignoring their own.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

I view bicycles to be children's toys, not transportation vehicles,
and see no need for bike lanes at all.

By a fucking car!

This is one of my few inconsistencies
as I tend to be a Europhile
and they, unfortunately, take bicycles seriously.

Gas is much more expensive in europe than here. Like $8 a gallon.