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Speed kills. Speeding ruins lives. New York drivers constantly hear this message from government.
Why, then, does the city accept the proliferation of illegal motorized electronic “devices” like the 53 mph scooter whose driver killed himself and a bicyclist Thursday on the Queensboro Bridge?
And why does Gotham accept dangerous behavior from the operators of legal e-scooters and e-bikes, too?
Thursday morning, a 35-year-old cyclist was using the Queensboro Bridge’s new bike-only path to travel from Manhattan to Queens.
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. Nicole is the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, available now.