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Data Dump: E-Bike Crashes Were Down Before NYPD Crackdown, Contradicting Tisch’s Rationale

In the first four months of this year, e-bike crashes and injuries were down by double-digit percentages. So, um, why is the NYPD cracking down?

May 29, 2025

Memo to NYPD Commish Tisch: Drivers Keep Driving, And Killing, on Suspended Licenses

License suspension doesn't keep drivers off the road, why would it work with bikes?

May 29, 2025

Council Outrage Over NYPD Bike Criminalization Grows, But Speaker Adams Is In No Rush

Council members want Speaker Adrienne Adams to act, but she doesn't want to.

May 29, 2025

Defending Bike Crackdown, Adams Says Drivers Have Been Targeted ‘Far Too Long’

This guy once claimed he be a Vision Zero hero, but he's just the zero part.

May 28, 2025

Democratic Party Machine Joins the Bikelash on Bedford Avenue

The Bedford Avenue protected bike lane is in danger as the mayor's allies go on the offensive. The very offensive.

May 28, 2025

Judge Blocks Trump From Forcing New York To End Congestion Pricing

Obviously congestion pricing wasn't going to be halted, but Judge Lewis Liman had some strong words for federal lawyers who claim the government can just change its mind every four years.

May 27, 2025

Doug Gordon Takes on John Mulaney’s ‘Entitled’ and Humorless Anti-Bike Insanity

Why do New Yorkers feel the need to prove their "street cred" by hating on bicycles when it is, in fact, cars that have ruined this city?

May 27, 2025

Car Harms Tuesday: Cars Are Just Ugly

New York has always had businesses and people using its streets for work and play. It hasn’t always had this many cars, and never before have they been this big.

May 27, 2025

Op-Ed: Stop the ‘Flushing Skypark’ Scam

There's still time before the state alienates the "parkland" for Steve Cohen's casino.