Vespa style e-scooters have 5x the motor wattage of an ebike and weigh between 2-4x as much.
Newtonian physics says they're much more dangerous than ebikes. And they can go 30+ so they can be in the car lane.

why are they downvoting you, you'e 40% right

This is also a very good hypothesis for the crime wave.

And a very good reason to think the approach that most politicians are bringing to the crime wave - more cops more cops more cops - won't work.

That was probably cops heading home from work.

resigning would be a good solution.

unfortunately.

I can't help but picture Michael Cera as the owner.

I was born here, and my family has been here since 1854. I'm sixth generation. My kid is seventh. And I work five blocks from where my great grandfather worked.

And based on all my NYC cred, I get to declare your position on this matter is trash.

The number of children killed by cars spikes higher on Halloween than on any other day of the year.

If you want to keep you kids safe, NYC has some car-free streets set up for trick-or-treating this year.

If you want to keep your kids even safer, reach out to your local community board and police precinct and see if you can create more car-free streets for trick-or-treating next year.

And if you're out driving tonight, please drive with the level of caution you'd use if you were in an elementary school parking lot after dark, because you'll be pretty close to being in that situation.

Pretty much every guide to being a landlord says that it's irresponsible to not maintain a cash reserve of 3 months rent per apartment.

If a landlord is seriously financially harmed by someone who takes 3 months to evict, that landlord is landlording wrong.

One of my least favorite parts of NYC is shitty people who snidely call newcomers "transplants" in a city that has 300 foot statue standing in front of it above a plaque with a poem that says, in essence, "all are welcome, please come here".

Two or three times a week, a car kills somebody in NYC. Ban them.

Which is why a multi-lingual PSA campaign about battery safety is probably an important part of solving this problem.

some of the scooters sold by the Fly Ebike chain of stores are very poorly made.

You're not gonna see a lot of Bosch system batteries catching on fire. They disable themselves and flash alerts on the bike screens if they have even a brief short between their contacts.

the problem is not batteries in general, it's that we haven't got a good way of rating quality control yet.

Underwriters Laboratories has recently started certifying batteries. As this becomes the norm, maybe a UL listing would be a good way to decide if a battery is allowed in the building.

But there's an unsolvable problem with this anyway: If buildings ban ebikes, what will happen is people will lock the bikes up outside, and take the batteries inside to charge them anyway. Batteries are not big. No building is going get away with searching everybody's bags.

So if we want to address this safety issue, banning bikes from buildings isn't going to work. Upgrading fire protection standards in bike rooms will help.

And a PSA campaign in multiple languages explaining how to be safe with batteries will help too. We do the same thing for space heaters.

LMFAO Just because you're not getting laid doesn't mean there's a secret feminist conspiracy to rule New York, dude.

Political donations are less often bribery by the donor and more often extortion by the recipient.

The PBA may be a pack of right wing nutjobs, but at the end of the day, a lobbying group that's been around forever is somewhat likely to donate to whoever they think will win.

OK, then, here's a rewrite of the previous comment:

Thank you orthodox community for stubbornly insisting on not teaching your kids science, thereby making them vulnerable to being duped by antivaxxers.

the first thing you should be doing is talking to as many neighbors as possible and trying to find out if they're getting the runaround too.

Somebody needs to do a clean up on their block, put all the trash in a dump truck, and drop it on his block.

Actually the study I linked to is by a professor whose findings were, broadly, that from the mid to late 20th century nonviolent protest was more successful than insurrection, but then the bastards figured out how to counter nonviolent protest effectively, and by the early 21st century nonviolent protest and insurrection were about equally effective, but the efficacy of nonviolent protest is continuing to weaken.

A recent Harvard study concludes nonviolent protest is no longer statistically more likely to succeed than armed insurrection.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14754835.2022.2077085

I was promised pitchforks. Disappointing.

I just checked. And I just won NIMBY Bingo!

Never trust a prediction from someone whose life expectancy ends before their prediction is supposed to come true.