> who have to answer to local voters

Local homeowner NIMBY's, busybodies, and Karen's mostly. The average age at local government meetings is like 70. Retired people with more free time and resources than they know what to do with.

So have gas stove mishaps including my mom's apartment building. But because the users of gas stoves aren't predominately working class immigrants, it gets left alone.

Electric bikes and scooters are far superior to the alternative, and the industry is switching over to more stable chemistries anyway. It's a problem that will solve itself without introducing legendary NYC bureaucracy to the equation.

>Those pushing for changes and regulations want to make it clear they are not looking to ban e-bikes and e-scooters, they just want guidelines in place.

That's what people who are trying to ban something always say. This is the NYC Council, so I have the fear they'll probably go with the dumbest option possible which is an effective ban on e-bikes altogether.

The local neighborhood smells and sounds so much better now that the vast majority of delivery people have switched over to electric bikes and scooters. Those gas scooters have no environmental controls and put more particulates into the air than a F150 pickup truck. Plus, electrics are cheaper to operate in general.

And this is an issue that's solving itself as Chinese manufacturers are planning to switch over to sodium ion batteries for low margin products like scooters and bikes, which is a more stable chemistry.

https://www.electrive.com/2022/08/08/niu-to-debut-two-wheeler-with-sodium-ion-batteries-in-2023/

If they can figure out how to fuel up school buses, they can figure out chargers.

> If you check Shahana's website, you'll be unsurprised to see that her platform has a lot of platitudes decrying gentrification

The Gowanus area is mostly warehouses and abandoned industrial buildings. The only thing being gentrified and displaced are the rats.

> I mean, there are set rules to follow and if you follow them, they can’t deny you.

Lol. Ok. Do you think 98.5% of people were fucking up their applications or was the Republican Administration looking for the nitpickiest of reasons to deny people. Considering how many people applying for them were lawyers, I doubt it was due to sloppiness.

>The earliest time in which borrowers could receive forgiveness under the program was after October 1, 2017. The Department of Education reported that 2,215 borrowers had the remainder of their respective student loans forgiven under the program as of April 30, 2020 for a denial rate of 98.5%

Look at the PLSF rates during the last Republican President. They hate the program and find every reason possible to deny applicants their rightful forgiveness money. You're playing a dangerous game that it'll be a Democratic President in the White House when it's your turn.

Have you seen the ambulance chasers in this city? A contractor didn't finish my family's apartment and came after us for the last bit of money we supposedly owed them for work they literally didn't do. Had a lawyer file a mechanic's lien against us and everything. We just got the judge to dismiss it finally this year. This city is full of chumps who graduated last in their law school and will sue anyone for a quick buck.