{"id":363852,"date":"2026-10-03T22:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363852\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:40:14","slug":"stop-e-bikes-before-they-kill-and-maim-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363852\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop e-bikes before they kill and maim again"},"content":{"rendered":"

As e-bikes kill and maim ever more innocents, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York lawmakers still refuse to crack down.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s City Council hearing was an epic fiasco, as members burned hours in mindless back-and-forth with city officials and then skipped out as the public got a chance at the mic \u2014 basically ignoring the regular New Yorkers who\u2019d come out to testify<\/a> to their serious personal harm.<\/p>\n

Those stories are heartbreaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MopedsAs e-bikes kill and maim ever more innocents, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York lawmakers still refuse to crack down. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n

An e-bike ran down Tonette Rivera of Brooklyn when she was 20 weeks pregnant; she spent two months in the hospital, gave birth prematurely and then saw her infant son spend three months in a neonatal ICU \u2014 and, on top of the medical horror, the calamity crushed her financially.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An e-bike accident that left her right side permanently paralyzed ended the career of cellist Pamela Manasse \u2014 whom the mayor dodged when she raised the issue on his WNYC call-in last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And beyond the 17,000-plus New Yorkers injured in e-bike collisions since 2019, per NYPD data, are the 133 killed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first-ever death from a horse-drawn carriage instantly renewed calls to ban that whole industry, yet progressives (including the ones who run the Central Park Conservancy) won\u2019t even call to ban e-bikes in the parks.<\/p>\n

Instead, the pols duck and dodge.<\/p>\n

The likes of City Councilman Shaun Abreu bemoan the corporate greed of Amazon, DoorDash etc. which apparently force drivers to run over little old ladies in order to deliver more quickly. . .\u00a0 but never the bikers themselves.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks onstage at CultureCon 2026 in New York, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Why? Because so many e-bikers are illegal immigrants, who progressives have decided must never ever be jailed or imprisoned lest it make them too easy for the feds to detain and deport.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the mayor ordered the NYPD to back off<\/a> e-bike enforcement back in March.<\/p>\n

To be clear, it\u2019s not just the sacred status of \u201cthe undocumented\u201d that leaves the pols so afraid to act: The elitist anti-car lobby has convinced itself that e-bikes are a huge win for the cause, so it opposes any and all reasonable regulation.<\/p>\n

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Yet that\u2019s the obvious answer: Have the state require licensing<\/a> and insurance for e-bike drivers, while the state or city can mandate registration and license plates for the bikes themselves.<\/p>\n

Set real penalties<\/a>, jail and fines, for scofflaws \u2014 with firm NYPD enforcement.<\/p>\n

Every day that this abdication on public safety continues, the risk increases of more tragedies like those that befell Tonnette Rivera and Pamela Manasse.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a citywide issue; it cuts across race and class and geography.<\/p>\n

The big question: When will our mayor and the council progressives, who claim to fight for all New Yorkers, stop fighting against them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As e-bikes kill and maim ever more innocents, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York lawmakers still refuse to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10483,301,4325,304,15853,9,24,55,54,56,299,82],"class_list":["post-363852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bikes","tag-city-council","tag-crashes","tag-editorial","tag-head-injuries","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363852","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=363852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}