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Commentary By Nicole Gelinas

Following Fatal Battery Fires, NYC Needs More Rules for E-bikes

Cities, Public Safety New York, New York City

It’s a measure of how incompetent and unambitious New York’s government has become that the mayor and city council are helpless in dealing with a crisis that didn’t exist three years ago: mass-casualty e-bike battery fires.

The problem is not hard to solve — but it’s impossible to solve any problem when City Hall has become a hand wringing talking shop.

Tuesday morning, an e-bike battery exploded in a Chinatown repair shop.

The ensuing fire killed four people who lived above the store, and injured two others — elderly people who had nothing to do with the facility. 

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.

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