The news today is that the governor of the sate of New York had a law to pass or veto about legislating rules for the electric scooters and electric bikes.
He vetoed it.
His campaign contributors aren't e-scooter users, of course. And the NYPD gets to bully an entire group of easy to harass people... anyone on e-scooters and e-bikes.
Really, what WOULD the NYPD do if it couldn't harass poor people, and by that I mean anyone that is driven in a limo is off limits. There is simply ZERO that someone in a limo is doing to be a target for the NYPD. They can't stop and frisk them for weapons, drugs, or being non-Caucasian. They can't harass them for parking tickets, violating helmet laws, etc etc
Simply put, NYPD hasn't got a thing to do except bully poor people. They sure as hell didn't bother the mafia, the cocaine dealers, and the cocaine users from what I remember of the 70s, 80s and 90s. And I've never heard of the NYPD busting the bankers and investors that screwed up the American economy in 2007
So anyway, back to New York's view of bikes, 200 years of making a point of making bike riders hated and a revenue generator for the city https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/its-been-a-bumpy-200-year-ride-for-nycs-historically-hated-bikes/ is well documented.
Seems rich people have always been bothered by cyclists, as the rich people ride in horse drawn carriages, and bikes have upset a lot of horses, or they injure pedestrians, and heavens sakes, don't point out that cars do the exact same things! Rich people have always owned cars, and in the first decade of car manufacturing, the rich were the only people that could afford cars. They sure as hell weren't going to equate the rich car owners as being as equally dangerous as poor people on bikes. And cyclists don't make rich people richer, like cars do. Taxi cab company owners never make money from bikers, neither do car dealership owners, etc etc. Bicyclists don't usually register their bikes, don't generate gas sales taxes, take out loans from bankers to pay for the bikes, nor pay insurance companies. No body seems to make money from cyclists. Once that bike is bought, that's about the end of paying taxes.
Mayor Koch, in the late 80s, banned bikes from midtown Manhattan.
Starting in August 1987, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, cyclists would be banned from riding on Park, Madison and Fifth avenues from 31st to 59th streets. Violators — messengers who Koch said “imperil the lives of New Yorkers every day” — would face a $40 to $60 fine.
Mayor Bloomberg had the notion to make NYC a bit greener, and get more votes that way, but, he didn't realize that bikes were both green, and hated.
In 2008, a two-way bike greenway along Kent Avenue in Williamsburg proved contentious for the area’s Hasidic community. In online comments, Friss writes, anti-bike hard-nosers “labeled cyclists as ‘arrogant,’ ‘radical,’ ‘attention-seeking whiners,’ ‘trust-funders,’ ‘idiot hipster[s],’ and ‘gentrifying yuppies.’ ”
And it's obvious that bicycles result in limiting lane use for traffic, and the newest thing, the electric rental bikes and scooters take up the limited sidewalk real estate and some parking spaces. Even
the United Nations predicted that the bikes and the stations could be used to abet terrorists.”
https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/its-been-a-bumpy-200-year-ride-for-nycs-historically-hated-bikes/
https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/gov-cuomo-vetos-bill-legalizing-e-bikes-and-e-scooters/
Since Mayor de Blasio kicked off his fear-mongering crackdown against e-bikes in 2017, cops have seized hundreds of bicycles from delivery workers, forcing them to pay several-hundred-dollar fines for the bikes’ release. Many workers have had to cough up even more cash in order to repair cycles that were damaged at the hands of police.
“This is part of NYPD system of cruelty to [people of color] in name of public ‘safety’ of #VisionZero,” tweeted Do Lee of the Biking Public Project. “Likewise immigrant delivery workers often say after paying $500 fine, they retrieved confiscated #ebike but find it damaged badly under NYPD *care* needing $$$ repairs.”
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/08/nypd-its-up-to-officers-whether-to-use-deadly-force-against-cyclists/
https://twitter.com/_elkue/status/1119700530182463488
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/09/12/nypd-probing-cop-who-smashed-teens-bike/
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-targets-cyclists-in-hells-kitchen-i-saw-an-officer-shove-a-guy-off-of-his-bicycle#photo-2
He vetoed it.
His campaign contributors aren't e-scooter users, of course. And the NYPD gets to bully an entire group of easy to harass people... anyone on e-scooters and e-bikes.
Really, what WOULD the NYPD do if it couldn't harass poor people, and by that I mean anyone that is driven in a limo is off limits. There is simply ZERO that someone in a limo is doing to be a target for the NYPD. They can't stop and frisk them for weapons, drugs, or being non-Caucasian. They can't harass them for parking tickets, violating helmet laws, etc etc
Simply put, NYPD hasn't got a thing to do except bully poor people. They sure as hell didn't bother the mafia, the cocaine dealers, and the cocaine users from what I remember of the 70s, 80s and 90s. And I've never heard of the NYPD busting the bankers and investors that screwed up the American economy in 2007
So anyway, back to New York's view of bikes, 200 years of making a point of making bike riders hated and a revenue generator for the city https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/its-been-a-bumpy-200-year-ride-for-nycs-historically-hated-bikes/ is well documented.
Seems rich people have always been bothered by cyclists, as the rich people ride in horse drawn carriages, and bikes have upset a lot of horses, or they injure pedestrians, and heavens sakes, don't point out that cars do the exact same things! Rich people have always owned cars, and in the first decade of car manufacturing, the rich were the only people that could afford cars. They sure as hell weren't going to equate the rich car owners as being as equally dangerous as poor people on bikes. And cyclists don't make rich people richer, like cars do. Taxi cab company owners never make money from bikers, neither do car dealership owners, etc etc. Bicyclists don't usually register their bikes, don't generate gas sales taxes, take out loans from bankers to pay for the bikes, nor pay insurance companies. No body seems to make money from cyclists. Once that bike is bought, that's about the end of paying taxes.
Mayor Koch, in the late 80s, banned bikes from midtown Manhattan.
Starting in August 1987, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, cyclists would be banned from riding on Park, Madison and Fifth avenues from 31st to 59th streets. Violators — messengers who Koch said “imperil the lives of New Yorkers every day” — would face a $40 to $60 fine.
Mayor Bloomberg had the notion to make NYC a bit greener, and get more votes that way, but, he didn't realize that bikes were both green, and hated.
In 2008, a two-way bike greenway along Kent Avenue in Williamsburg proved contentious for the area’s Hasidic community. In online comments, Friss writes, anti-bike hard-nosers “labeled cyclists as ‘arrogant,’ ‘radical,’ ‘attention-seeking whiners,’ ‘trust-funders,’ ‘idiot hipster[s],’ and ‘gentrifying yuppies.’ ”
And it's obvious that bicycles result in limiting lane use for traffic, and the newest thing, the electric rental bikes and scooters take up the limited sidewalk real estate and some parking spaces. Even
the United Nations predicted that the bikes and the stations could be used to abet terrorists.”
https://nypost.com/2019/03/20/its-been-a-bumpy-200-year-ride-for-nycs-historically-hated-bikes/
https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/gov-cuomo-vetos-bill-legalizing-e-bikes-and-e-scooters/
Since Mayor de Blasio kicked off his fear-mongering crackdown against e-bikes in 2017, cops have seized hundreds of bicycles from delivery workers, forcing them to pay several-hundred-dollar fines for the bikes’ release. Many workers have had to cough up even more cash in order to repair cycles that were damaged at the hands of police.
“This is part of NYPD system of cruelty to [people of color] in name of public ‘safety’ of #VisionZero,” tweeted Do Lee of the Biking Public Project. “Likewise immigrant delivery workers often say after paying $500 fine, they retrieved confiscated #ebike but find it damaged badly under NYPD *care* needing $$$ repairs.”
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/08/nypd-its-up-to-officers-whether-to-use-deadly-force-against-cyclists/
https://twitter.com/_elkue/status/1119700530182463488
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/09/12/nypd-probing-cop-who-smashed-teens-bike/
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-targets-cyclists-in-hells-kitchen-i-saw-an-officer-shove-a-guy-off-of-his-bicycle#photo-2
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