By Daniel Katzive
A small SUV was consumed by flames on the West Side Highway Saturday morning, briefly shutting down northbound traffic. The fire occurred in the northbound lanes at about West 62nd Street.
The fire broke out a little before 10:30 a.m. and was extinguished by 10:40. Northbound traffic was moving again by 11 a.m.
An ambulance was on the scene, but it was not immediately clear whether there were any injuries. We will update this post with information from the FDNY when it becomes available.
You can’t win, gasoline powered vehicles catch fire, and so do lithium batteries.
And horse powered carriages have horses who take a dump on the street and streets are covered in horse feces. Want that? That’s how NYC was before cars and trucks.
And lightning causes fires. And so does barbecuing. It’s a question of frequency. I feel far safer with gasoline-powered cars on the road than I do with the possibility that someone is storing a cheap lithium battery in my building.
Let’s keep it real . If this was an escooter or e-bike we would see a lot more comments talking about how we should ban e-mobility vehicles
The bike lobby doesn’t want e-scooters or e-bikes to be regulated, they want their cake and to eat it too. Cars are regulated heavily. Let’s have a car and truck free Manhattan and let’s see you all whine about how Manhattan’s economy is destroyed. Maybe Manhattan being the economic center of the US and a 4 state metro is a mistake.
False equivalency. What percentage of cars (gasoline-powered or otherwise) run red lights vs. the percentage of e-bikes? And what is the occurrence of automobile fires vs. those caused by cheap lithium batteries? There’s no comparison whatsoever.
This doesn’t change the fact that we must ban e-bikes now!