{"id":216505,"date":"2026-05-01T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:09:41","slug":"new-council-bill-would-cement-15-mph-e-bike-speed-limit-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216505\/","title":{"rendered":"New council bill would cement 15-mph e-bike speed limit into law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People riding e-bikes in Central Park.<\/p>\n

REUTERS<\/p>\n

A 15 mph speed limit on all e-bikes<\/a> traveling on New York City streets may soon become the law of the land.\n<\/p>\n

City Council Member Virginia Maloney (D-Manhattan) introduced legislation on April 30 that would establish a 15 mph speed limit for the micromobility devices throughout the city. She said she introduced the bill in response to a surge in pedestrian injuries as e-bike use has exploded across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers should feel safe walking their streets,\u201d Maloney said. \u201cAs technology changes how we move through the city, our policies need to keep pace. This is a straightforward step to reduce risk and protect pedestrians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maloney\u2019s bill, dubbed Intro. 1312-2025,<\/a> was previously introduced by Keith Powers during his tenure in the council; he had been term-limited from office last year, but was elected to the State Assembly earlier this year.<\/p>\n

A cycling speed limit is not new in the Big Apple. NYC briefly had in place a 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes from Oct. 24 to Dec. 31, 2025, via an executive order by previous Mayor Eric Adams. However, Mayor Zohran Mamdani struck the order<\/a>, as well as a list of others<\/a> implemented after Adams\u2019 federal indictment on Sept. 26, 2024, when he took office on Jan. 1 this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill is backed by a bipartisan group of six council members and would make the speed limit law immune to being wiped out on a whim by any mayor.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

amNewYork contacted the mayor\u2019s office for comment on the bill, which addresses a topic he struck down this year, and is awaiting a response.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, crashes involving e-bikes have jumped a whopping 75% so far this year compared to the same period in 2025, according to the latest NYPD statistics. Alarmingly, the number of fatalities involving various two-wheeled devices in NYC has nearly doubled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill is currently in the City Council\u2019s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for further consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People riding e-bikes in Central Park. REUTERS A 15 mph speed limit on all e-bikes traveling on New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1159,9,24,63,87,122,124,123,142,55012],"class_list":["post-216505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-e-bikes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-transit","tag-virginia-maloney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}