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I'm in Brooklyn quite often, and much more worried about eBikes than cars. With cars, you are usually safe walking on a sidewalk -- but eBikes regularly ride on
by TuringNYC 1y ago
I'm in Brooklyn quite often, and much more worried about eBikes than cars. With cars, you are usually safe walking on a sidewalk -- but eBikes regularly ride on sidewalks, weave thru crowds on sidewalks, and excessively run red lights. I've had far more near misses with ebikes than cars -- the eBikes can come zipping down through non-lanes when you least expect -- in the wrong direction against traffic, and on walk signals.
- jeffbee 1y agoI can't understand how anybody who's been in Brooklyn can say that you're safe on the sidewalk from cars. https://old.nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/01/31/85-year-old-driver-hits-3-on-brooklyn-sidewalk-killing-1/ https://old.nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/01/31/85-year-old-drive... One of many
- TuringNYC 1y agoNot saying you are 100% safe from cars. However, I cant recall the last time a car almost hit me on a sidewalk -- however an eBike almost hits me on the sidewalk on a monthly basis.
- craftkiller 1y agoI'm also in Brooklyn and this is also my experience, though its not just e-bikes, its also gas-powered mopeds. The 2-wheeled motor vehicles treat the sidewalks like a loophole for 1-way streets. A gas-powered moped even honked at me once for being in their way *on the sidewalk*. I'm all for e-bikes. They're great. We need police to start giving a fuck and ticket people riding on the sidewalk. Even for the ones classified as bicycles, in NYC you're only legally allowed to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk if you are 12 years old or younger.