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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: New York's Crackdown on Ebikes
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 11:25:13 -0400
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On Mon, 26 May 2025 10:59:51 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 5/26/2025 8:38 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 5/26/2025 4:16 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 May 2025 21:36:00 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> New York Times article on police cracking down on ebike traffic
>>>> violations. Let's see if this will get people past the paywall:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/ebikes-scooters-cyclists- 
>>>> nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.voH2.AOcHv0jrnp79&smid=url-share
>>>
>>>
>>> “This is a direct attack on immigrant workers,” Ms. Guallpa said. “The
>>> intent is to criminalize workers and to create a situation where our
>>> communities could be targets for deportation.”
>>>
>>> Typical NYT woke nonsense...
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> C'est bon
>>> Soloman
>> 
>> +1 with the typical misdirection and conflation.
>> 
>> Legal Resident Aliens (taxpaying, working people who cannot vote) are 
>> ignored, along with US citizens. Criminal illegal aliens who, by 
>> Statute, cannot work and who are subject to summary deportation by the 
>> same Statutes, are where her sympathies lie.
>
>Damn. The right wing of this newsgroup is always on hair trigger!
>
>The article contains over 2000 words. Of those, only about three 
>paragraphs mention immigrant delivery workers. The rest deals with the 
>disparity between ebike and car enforcement policies, noting that cars 
>kill far, far more pedestrians. It doesn't even mention that NYC life is 
>totally dominated by the negative effects of car traffic. Yet people are 
>enraged about the comparatively minuscule effects of ebikes, and ebike 
>riders are in some ways being treated more harshly than car drivers.
>
>Look, I think ebike riders should ride legally. I think U.S. ebikes are 
>too fast, and/or should be legally treated more like motorcycles - 
>meaning integrated into traffic and kept off bike paths.
>
>But you guys ignore all that, blinded by the brief mention of 
>immigrants. You never fail to respond to right wing dog whistles, even 
>if  you have to blow the whistle yourself.

The issue is that only left wing jackasses would include that nonsense
as if it was real news, whereas right wing media would only mention it
to make fun of it.

As for ignoring the ebikes speeding, it's nothing new, I've commented
on that a number of times, and running stop signs is an issue for
nonmotorised bikes too.

--
C'est bon
Soloman