Re:Uber Hit with Cap as New York City Takes Lead in Crackdown
by romwell on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:27PM
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FYI, responding to the parent comment, I've found out that the e-bikes were kind of unbanned a few months ago[1].
Kind of because you can go 20+mph on a regular bike without pedal assist. It seems like e-bikes are still banned statewide. Eh.
[1]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/new-york-city...
Allowing electric bicycles and push scooters solves the last mile problem for many people.
The argument the city has made is that electric bicycles are too dangerous and will cause injury to pedestrians. This is a bad faith argument, because it's already illegal to cycle on the sidewalk, and if the city actually cared about non driver safety, it would push to enforce bicycle lane safety. It also failed to provide sufficient, to me, evidence that electric bicycles and push scooters pose a threat to pedestrians.
If better transit options existed, including last mile (push scooter) and ~3mile solutions (electric rentable bicycles), perhaps people wouldn't Uber as much.