I mean, theoretically everyone.

Yeah, road diets would do so much for the LES. Everything south of 14th st feels like it's under continual siege by cars. Houston and Canal especially feel like war zones

"An entire kindergarten class of kids being run over, crushed brutally to death every single year in one city alone is really not that much if you think about it." Oh great, thanks Elizabeth Cooper. You're totally not a psychopath.

There are also over 100,000 people sent to the hospital every year in NYC alone by cars that don't die, many of which are also kids. I'm glad none of this bothers you however.

Bikes, including ebikes, save lives. They save kids from being maimed and killed. This is not arguable and you are a sick person if you even try

Do you know how many lithium ion devices there are in this city? 200 fires for that many devices is, in fact, very rare. I don't think anyone would disagree that we should have better certifications and enforcement on the cheap shit, but let's keep things in perspective

It's also always important to remember that the number one killer of kids, by far, is cars, not ebikes. Cars. There are now an estimated 1.6 million people riding micromobility in NYC. Those people have saved TONS of children's lives because some of those trips would have been taken by cars, which again are the #1 killer of children.

Do we need better regulations on batteries so that the extremely rare fire in cheap vehicles can be eliminated like anything else that uses lithium ion batteries, of course. But we should be very skeptical of anyone trying to hurt the adoption of micromobility in general, especially if they are hiding behind an argument for safety. They are either lying or seriously misinformed

It's infuriating that our DOT doesn't seem able to figure out how traffic congestion works. It's really not that hard. There are 35 million people in the metro area, 8 million in the city itself and cars are relatively huge. There will ALWAYS be traffic congestion here to the "maximum tolerable level" by drivers.

During covid that maximum level of pain drivers are willing to suffer actually went up because people were avoiding the subway. So traffic actually got even worse. But it will always be at capacity because there is so much demand the only thing keeping even more people from driving and making more congestion is ironically the traffic itself. You could remove literally every single ride share car tomorrow and briefly traffic would be better, but by next week lots of people that don't drive now would go "oh wow look how easy and traffic free it is out there" and by next week we'd be right back to full capacity congestion again.

Because the demand vastly outweighs the amount the system can tolerate and any car you remove will be replaced by some other driver

A lot of them don't live here. They come here to big cities to harass people. The amount of openly hateful people that live here is not 0 but it's definitely pretty small compared to the 8 million people that live here

>How does taking away a space relieve congestion?

I think I know what you're asking here but can you at least try to form sentences that make sense. If your question is "how does repurposing road space away from cars reduce traffic?" Then that's at least a good question if you're unfamiliar with how traffic is generated in the first place. Here is a fairly good explanation that will cover more than I'm going to type out here

Bike lanes do not cause congestion. They relieve congestion.

Literally the only way to reduce traffic is to provide alternatives to driving to get people out of cars in NYC the main way we do this is the subway, but micromobility is a form of the same idea. Every person you see on a bike or scooter is a person using transportation that is much more space efficient than a car. There are a million regular riders here. Can you imagine if even a small amount switched to cars?

Edit: who is downvoting this? This is exactly how traffic works. Why do you think people say "you're not in traffic, you are traffic." It's because cars are traffic. Reduce cars, reduce traffic. It's pretty basic

Because the larger a vehicle is the more dangerous and deadly it is to those outside of it? Are you asking me seriously why I care if kids are killed by things? Because you know that's who is killed in huge numbers by increasingly large vehicles right? Kids and elderly people? You are aware this is an actual thing that's happening in the world, right?

Virtually nobody that has a pickup truck uses it for manual labor. There are some folks that do, I'm sure, but pickup trucks are mainly used for virtue signaling. Go to any Walmart or college campus parking lot in the south if you want to see what I mean. Real laborers more often use vans which are easier to store things in, far cheaper, can be locked more easily, etc.

Me too, because that would imply I thought it was ever a good idea to buy a pickup truck

How hilarious would it be if everything they tried actually made it better

And r/micromobilityNYC of course. Bikes and scooters are the most eco-friendly vehicles on the planet and over a million people ride here regularly

Yeah this is like how even delivery apps will say things like "your driver is on the way!" Or show an icon of a car. People outside of the city literally don't understand almost all deliveries here are made by r/micromobilityNYC or mopeds, not cars

Seriously. Why are the rabid people still fighting against bike lanes always so insane now. All the reasonable people have learned that even if you don't ride micromobility of any sort they make streets safer and get some people out of cars, reducing traffic even for drivers, and making the city a lot more pleasant. All that's left is this just slathering idiot type of guy that's proud of being aggressively ignorant

"all I care about is me" is one of those things you're not really supposed to just say, even if it's what you believe. Sociopaths usually learn that they should at least try to feign interest in other people's well being and the greater good

For what purpose? What does it matter to you if his name is Sam Brown or Tom Brown? If you want to know the names of car crash victims for some reason Google some. There are like 100k people taken to hospitals every year just in this city. Or just ask your friend and family. I'm sure virtually every here knows someone that's been a victim at some point

Dude, car crashes happen 300 times per day in NYC. Nobody has to fake them

Yeah. We've been raising awareness about this for literally years. r/MicromobilityNYC. Glad everyone's starting to really get upset about it

3rd Ave - https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/y2j38c/new_3rd_ave_proposed_design_revealed_nothing/. Could definitely be better.

Unfortunately the battery issue might be a little beyond my area of expertise. I attended an event a little while back with a Council Member that talked a bit about how the City Council was very aware of it, and also most members weren't in favor of any legislation to prohibit personal electric vehicles, or for allowing city agencies to do that. (Especially since so many industry/delivery and working class people and jobs depend on it now.) But they also didn't really have any answers.

So the government probably isn't our problem, and it's also probably not individual buildings or landlords we have to worry about but actually insurance companies that may force them to act. Frankly I have no idea how this is going to play out, but I have a feeling there will be pretty stringent certifications coming for batteries, which would be good. We just need to get a few years down the road and let the industry mature and fix the issue like they did for other Lithium ion products that used to have this problem and keep any bans to a minimum, and also remind people that fires with personal electric vehicles even now are very rare, and when they do happen its not really happening to high end ebikes or scooters, it's happening to the really cheap mopeds and ebikes whose manufacturers cut corners.

I mean yeah, there are 1.6 million people that ride micromobility here in the city, over a million that ride it regularly. Would you say something like "every time I attack pedestrians I'm downvoted, it's so unfair."

We already have to put up with enough bs and are not interested in hearing your petty little complaints about how your neighborhood lost 3 parking spots out of thousands to make a bike lane or whatever. I assume that's what your complaint is since you've actually provided no "factual statements."

Such as?

Yeah that's why we want to improve the city's walking and cycling. For that sweet reddit karma. You got us.

Hey, what does it tell you that these ideas are such a reliable "karma farm?" Why is it I never see you out there making content for reddit about how we should rip up bike lanes and sidewalks for more car lanes? I hear a lot of complaining from you and a handful of others about how we want to improve the city but we literally never hear your vision. What is it, cars from one building's wall to the other?