Press
2024
Commenting on the Comments: Crossing the Street in the Era of E-bikes, E-Scooters, and Mopeds
By Ann Cooper on June 7, 2024
“You’re not looking!” I chided my friend from Washington, D.C. who came to the city Memorial Day weekend. I was reminding her of the lesson I’d given the day before, on how to navigate New York City streets on foot in the era of electric bikes, electric scooters, and mopeds. Crossing a street: look both ways, several times, before stepping out, even when the light is clearly signaling it’s safe to walk. On the sidewalk: never assume you’re safe just because you’re not in the street; an unseen, unheard “micromobility” vehicle could whiz by you from the rear at any moment, its driver offering no warning whatsoever.
Opinion: NYC cannot wait any longer to regulate micro-mobility vehicles
By Maria Danzilo on February 16, 2024
New York City’s future growth and stability depend on establishing sensible transportation and street usage policies. However, our streets have become a chaotic mess, due mostly to the proliferation of unregulated e-bikes and electric scooters. New York City now has more than 65,000 gig delivery workers racing through our streets and on our sidewalks to deliver food to busy New Yorkers. Most of them use e-bikes because they are faster. These micro-mobility vehicles have overtaken bike lanes with drivers who routinely disregard traffic laws, putting pedestrians at great risk.
Have E-Bikes Made New York City a ‘Nightmare’?
By Dodai Stewart on May 28, 2024
Elijah Orlandi knows what many New Yorkers think about delivery workers on e-bikes: They ride too fast. They zigzag in and out of traffic and bike lanes — sometimes going the wrong direction altogether. They materialize on sidewalks, idle in groups and block the paths of pedestrians. They risk colliding with people, pets and cars in their rush to get where they’re going.
Advocates push to regulate e-bikes
By Henry Rossoff on June 20, 2024
You see it all the time all around the city– e-bike riders, often on their phones moving in and out of traffic, some barreling by pedestrians. Now there is a new push at the City Council level to register these e-bikes.
Friends and family clutched pictures of Priscilla Loke as they stood on the steps of City Hall.
Loke was killed by an e-bike running a red light in Chinatown last fall and her loved ones now support the registering of all bikes, scooters and other vehicles with an electric motors under what would be known as Priscilla’s law.
Crash victims call for Council vote on bill requiring e-bike registration
By Samantha Liebman on June 20, 2024
As the number of e-bikes has grown on the city’s streets, so have injuries, and there have also been deaths.
One group is calling on the city to require them to be registered, so there’s more accountability when something happens.
‘We are the majority!’ E-bike safety group pushes for hearing on Holden licensing bill
By Lincoln Anderson on December 15, 2023
It was a blustery day last week when councilmembers and New Yorkers demanding “accountability” for e-bike riders rallied outside City Hall. Despite the chill, they were fired up by the hope that a bill requiring all e-bikes to sport license plates could be passed before the end of the year.
License to ride: NYC pols, pedestrians push for registration and license plates for e-bikes, scooters
By Gabriele Holtermann on December 7, 2023
E-bikes and e-scooters used in New York City should be required to be registered like cars, elected officials and traffic safety advocates demanded Wednesday.
During a Park Row rally outside City Hall on Dec. 6, the group pushed for a swift hearing of a bill, introduced by Council Member Robert Holden in 2022, mandating that all legal e-mobility devices — including e-bikes and e-scooters — to be registered with the Department of Transportation and equipped with a license plate.
NYC councilmember pushes bill requiring e-bikes and e-scooters have license plates and be registered
Councilmember Robert Holden of Queens demanded city lawmakers move forward with his proposed bill to require license plates and vehicle registrations for any electric bike, scooter or other motorized vehicle.
The bill, which was introduced last year and is sponsored by 31 of the City Council’s 51 members, takes aim at the e-bikes used by thousands of delivery workers as well as pedal-assist e-bikes, such as those in the Citi Bike fleet.
By Ramsey Khalifeh on December 6, 2023
Meeting on ‘out-of-control e-bikes’ to gather pols, police brass, crash victims
A new and growing grassroots advocacy group is calling on local politicians to take steps to ensure citizens’ safety and “rein in the chaos caused by out-of-control e-bike riders” — including requiring all e-bikes to be licensed, registered, inspected and insured.
By The Village Sun on September 23, 2023
NYC E-vehicle Safety Alliance calls for increased regulation, accountability
By Ashley Mastronardi on August 30, 2023
The Manhattan Bridge was the scene of a bloody e-bike crash that left four people injured in July. As the number of e-vehicles in the city continues to rise, so do calls for them to be regulated.
What Happens When Speedy Mopeds Crowd Bike Lanes?
By The Brian Lehrer Show on August 1, 2023
A bloody crash last week on the Manhattan Bridge bike lane that involved scooters and e-bikes illustrated why cyclists are concerned for their safety. Julianne Cuba, reporter at Streetsblog, reports on the larger issues at play—including why Deliveristas are using mopeds and riding in the bike lanes—and Charles Lane, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, reports on the crash and what advocates are hoping will change.
The Menace of E-Vehicles and What’s Being Done About it
On a recent evening, several dozen members of the E-Vehicle Safety Alliance gathered on the corner of West 88th Street and Columbus Avenue for the group’s first in-person get-together. They had turned out in pursuit of their mission to advocate for street safety at a monthly meeting of the West Side Democrats at Goddard Riverside Community Center that was devoted to the issue.
By Daniel Krieger on June 26, 2023
The Growing Movement to Rein in E-Vehicles and How to Get Involved
By Daniel Krieger on June 12, 2023
Last fall, Janet Schroeder decided that something had to be done about all the e-vehicles driving every which way in her neighborhood and putting pedestrians in danger. (“e-vehicles” cover all personal mobility devices that are battery powered, such as e-scooters, e-bikes, hoverboards, and mopeds.) She had been actively involved over the years in causes she cares about, but grassroots organizing was new for her. The turning point came in September when she read about Pamela Greitzer-Manasse’s grievous brain injury, after having also been horrified by the death of Lisa Banes a year prior
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2023
Pamela Greitzer-Manasse’s Long and Winding Path to Recovery
Pamela Greitzer-Manasse has slowly been getting better since she suffered a catastrophic brain injury last July, at least in a few ways. She can now open and close her right hand. She can walk with a cane, limping, but without a foot brace or her husband spotting her. And another milestone on her long and winding path to recovery: she can tie her shoelaces.
By Daniel Krieger on May 25, 2023
2022
When Everything Changed in an Instant
It was a warm July afternoon, sunny with a blue sky, and Pamela Greitzer-Manasse was walking on the Upper West Side with her husband, Jon Manasse, and a friend, Chris Pell. […] It was a Tuesday, around 12:30 pm. The light signaled to walk, and as they were crossing the street, just a few steps from a small triangular median on 65th Street, at the point where Columbus and Broadway intersect, an electric moped that was cutting across the median collided head-on with Greitzer-Manasse, throwing her into the air.
By Daniel Krieger on September 16, 2022