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New Yorkers: 500 Pound ‘Green’ Delivery e-Bikes Planned by City Will Kill Cyclists and Pedestrians
Breitbart ^ | 09/19/2023 | ALANA MASTRANGELO

Posted on 09/19/2023 12:55:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Concerned New Yorkers and industry leaders are warning that the giant “green” delivery e-bikes currently being planned by the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) will kill cyclists and crowd bike lanes.

“If this passes, there is no doubt this will end in dead cyclists,” community member Joel Gelb warned at a public hearing last week regarding New York City’s DOT proposal, according to a report by W42ST.

In an effort to cut carbon emissions, the NYC’s DOT is planning to bring 500-pound, four-wheeled cargo bikes — that can be up to 48 inches wide and will have a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour — to the city’s streets.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: delivery; ebikes; electric; green; newyork; newyorkers
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These stupid e-bikes are a easy target to get robbed. Idiots
1 posted on 09/19/2023 12:55:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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2 posted on 09/19/2023 12:56:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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Four wheels does not a bike make. It’s an electric car without the cage.


3 posted on 09/19/2023 12:57:44 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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the giant “green” delivery e-bikes will kill cyclists and crowd bike lanes.

Or your money back.
Guaranteed.


4 posted on 09/19/2023 1:08:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: monkeyshine

Dandified electrjc golf cart.


5 posted on 09/19/2023 1:11:32 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & Subversion)
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500-pound, four-wheeled cargo bikes

What is the weight to the pavements with Chris Christie giving a ride to Stacey Abrams after both finished an All You Can Eat Buffet supper?


6 posted on 09/19/2023 1:13:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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>Four wheels does not a bike make. It’s an electric car without the cage.

Quads (ATVs) are also referred to as “bikes” although I doubt these things could negotiate a golf course.


7 posted on 09/19/2023 1:18:47 PM PDT by fretzer
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All to get yr Thai and Chinese takeout delivered before it goes lukewarm and turns too goopy and disgusting to eat. Especially yer General Tso’s chicken, poisonous chicken lumps in an orange mystery sauce.


8 posted on 09/19/2023 1:19:06 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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It has 4 wheels, takes up most of the lane & shouldn’t be treated as a bike.
It also appears to be more brown than green. 😉


9 posted on 09/19/2023 1:21:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: smokingfrog

bi = 2


10 posted on 09/19/2023 1:26:48 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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“People Will D I E !”

That sounds like something Nancy Pelosi would say to any proposal approved by Donald Trump.

Or..
If somebody said, they are done worrying about Pronoun usage.


11 posted on 09/19/2023 1:27:35 PM PDT by lee martell
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Thank you, grammarly. lol


12 posted on 09/19/2023 1:31:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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“It has 4 wheels, takes up most of the lane & shouldn’t be treated as a bike.”

It’s NYC. Bikes Don’t use the bike lane.


13 posted on 09/19/2023 1:32:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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Quads (ATVs) are also referred to as “bikes”

They are? You know, I suspected my Webster's dictionary was out of date when I heard people on the television speaking gobbledygook. ;-)

14 posted on 09/19/2023 1:32:53 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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“If this passes, there is no doubt this will end in dead cyclists,”


And the Right always complains there is no good news !


15 posted on 09/19/2023 1:36:07 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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>They are?

Yep. Just go into a Polaris dealer. My head twisted too when I first heard it.


16 posted on 09/19/2023 1:36:45 PM PDT by fretzer
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>>>>Quads (ATVs) are also referred to as “bikes”<<<<

Not by anybody I know. Off-road bikers hate the things for what they do to what used to be solely bike trails.

17 posted on 09/19/2023 1:37:55 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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“These stupid e-bikes are a easy target to get robbed. Idiots”

No easier than a large Amazon van and it doesn’t block car traffic lanes.


18 posted on 09/19/2023 1:44:21 PM PDT by TexasGator
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I’m torn here...


19 posted on 09/19/2023 1:55:14 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: frank ballenger

1300 lbs.


20 posted on 09/19/2023 1:58:02 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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