
The following essay reflects the opinions of the writer, not West Side Rag.
By Vic Losick
We pedestrians come first. We come before cyclists, before drivers, before clean air, before noise, before gridlock, and before congestion pricing. Our personal safety takes precedence.
Every New Yorker who heads outside and onto the sidewalks and streets of the city does so with a very real fear of injury. Most likely they have had their own close call with either a bike or car whizzing recklessly close by, leaving only the whoosh of its wake and a spike of cortisol.
I personally have three friends who were hit and seriously injured. Two were hit by the driver of a vehicle while crossing with the light and within the crosswalk. One friend has recovered. The other, after two years in a nursing home and barely able to speak or recognize family, just died. The third friend was getting off a bus when a cyclist decided to go between the bus and the curb breaking several of my friend’s ribs.
This is madness.
New York’s “Vision Zero” statement claims: “The primary mission of government is to protect the public. New York’s families deserve and expect safe streets.” To that I would add sidewalks.
Today, sidewalks are shared by children, the elderly (some with canes or walkers), dogs on leashes, wheelchairs, and baby strollers. Add to that skateboarders, scooters, rollerbladers, and, on occasion, bicycles, all demanding use of the same narrow walkways, and you have a fairly accurate picture of why pedestrians are afraid for their safety when they step outside.
Why has the simple act of walking around our city become so fraught with danger? Some explanations are:
1. New Yorkers have been encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint causing an explosion of alternative transportation.
2. 25 miles per hour is the speed limit on most NYC streets. As we speak there are unregistered, motorized, two-wheeled vehicles that can and do go faster than the speed limit. And they can be driven by unlicensed drivers of any age with no training.
3. And perhaps most important is the abdication of traffic law enforcement by the NYPD, resulting in utter disrespect for both the NYPD and the laws it has been charged to enforce. When was the last time you saw a cyclist stopped by a cop for going through a red light, or going the wrong way down a one-way street, or even riding on the sidewalk? Neither have I. Every policeman I’ve asked said it wasn’t their job or their priority.
How can we make walking in NYC not a life-threatening contest? Hard choices will have to be made. Here are some observations and suggestions:
1. No matter how “energy-free” alternative means of transportation may be, more people must take more mass transit. In addition, the MTA, and the federal, city, and state governments need to continue to invest in mass transit and encourage its use.
2. To prevent our current vehicular free-for-all, the same reasoning that is applied to cars and trucks could be applied to other wheeled vehicles: that is, to register them with New York State. Does that mean license plates and registration for bicycles? Of course not. However, if it’s powered by anything other than the driver it needs to be registered.
3. The sidewalk/street infrastructure needs a serious rethinking, and where appropriate, redesign.
4. Of course law enforcement has to be made a priority, not a choice. Contempt for the law only further increases the perils facing pedestrians. Elected officials and the citizenry need to focus attention and act accordingly.
5. And perhaps most controversial, I would suggest simply banning all wheeled devices except wheelchairs and baby carriages from the sidewalks. That includes scooters, roller blades, and bicycles. But where will all the other wheeled vehicles go? Onto the streets. But the streets are already overcrowded. That should not be the pedestrian’s problem.
Ratso says it all.
Vic Losick is a documentary filmmaker.
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Most bicycles are already banned from sidewalks (exception for young kids on small bikes), as are ALL electric bikes and electric scooters. These bans were respected until a few years ago, and now all hell has broken loose.
We never used to have bicycles and such on the sidewalks – what changed? Simple – In the past there was no way to get the bicycle on the sidewalk without potentially damaging the rims – Then we got the wheelchair cuts at the corners and now it’s simple to just ride on the sidewalks – I don’t quite know where i stand on this because the number of cyclists I encounter versus the number of wheelchairs is at least 500-1
Right–kids under eight or somesuch need to be allowed on the sidewalks.
The current law allows bicyclists under the age of 13 to ride on the sidewalk.
Today on Broadway at 2:30 there were 500? bycyclists in a group barreling uptown, not stopping for ANYTHING, doing wheelies, etc. people caught in middle off street, including me. Police do nothing!
Is this crazy, or now just normal?
And these folks on bikes are in training for when they can buy motorcycles and ATVs which I have also witnessed in these mass acts of civil disobedience. I do NOT blame, or fault the police who have their hands full investigating random shootings and acts of anti-semitism. When on occasion the cops are able to intersect with the mass rider events, they are unable to catch these law-breakers who ride up on sidewalks and go the wrong way on streets to escape cops who are on foot or in cars. It’s incredibly disturbing. A cop who valiantly tried to stop motorcyclists in Central Park was injured by these monsters (https://abc7ny.com/post/central-park-attack-nypd-police-officer-struck-injured-suspects-men-motorcycles/14880248/). Support your police – don’t disparage them. This disparagement and lack of respect is exactly what makes lawbreakers feel free to break the law.
All motor vehicles, including e-bikes, mopeds and scooters (not to mention motorcycles and ATVs), should be registered and insured. Absent martial law (which should be seriously considered given the anarchy that reigns because of lazy-bones Bragg and overly lenient bail laws), this reduce the problem.
Same on RSD Thursday evening..
I’m waiting for MayorAdams, or ANY mayor, to
make sidewalk safety a priority! I know… fat chance. But keep on protesting against the unlicensed maniacs and sidewalk hogs. Make good trouble!!
Add my name to the list of pedestrian who got injured by an ebike. Ended up at the ER with an open wound on the back of my head – thankfully I was okay (I attribute that mostly to the fact I was in my early 30s) but yes it has become absolute madness. They are many avenues to combat this but people, please join EVSA!
Good ideas. Let Mayor Adams know. And call our District 6 Council member. After Transportation Alternatives tells her what to do, she’ll jump right on it.
I wholeheartedly agree with virtually everything in this opinion piece. I’m tired of bike riders/advocates arguing that more pedestrians are killed by cars vs bikes (analog or e bikes) and that we should leave them alone. As a pedestrian, I am 10x more concerned about getting hit by a bike than a car (I take note of ones that actually follow traffic laws bc it’s such a rarity!!) and that’s based on my experience and so many close calls, even if it does bear out in the official statistics.
Obviously bikers and drivers alike should have more consideration for pedestrians; however as a pedestrian, I’m 10x more concerned about getting hit by a car, mostly because I would likely be killed. Drivers who kill pedestrians often get off with minimal/no charges.
You’re free to be concerned about whatever you want, but both the physics of a heavier and faster moving car and the official statistics would suggest that cars are a far bigger danger to pedestrians.
I could not have said it better myself.
Man. Earlier today I was about to cross the street. At the crosswalk
Walk sign was on. I saw two bikes coming up and knew they would not stop so I didn’t move. And of course
The bikes went right through the light.
At this point with the proliferation of e bikes,they need to be licensed
And this should be enforced.
And. Ckti bikes needs to ban people who use bikes and run red lights. Especially e bikes.
Oh. And the parks have to ban e bikes.
About sidewalks. I think kids under 16 should be allowed on sidewalks.
I agree. Anyone who rides on the sidewalk, or rides on a footpath or bridal path in the park more than once should be banned from CitiBike for 5 years. Anyone who does this on their own bike should have their bike confiscated.
But the problem is, there is ZERO enforcement! The city won’t even enforce the existing laws. It’s all part of the cities War on Pedestrians.
As I read, I was prepared for something about which I did not agree. I agree with every one of your points…THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I agree that pedestrians should get primacy on city streets.
However, calls for licensing bicyclists are bad. Hold no illusions: cars are vastly more dangerous than bikes. In 2023, cars killed 104 pedestrians in NYC. As far as I can tell, bikes killed zero. It has happened! But cars are way worse.
Bikes rely on other cyclists for safety because car drivers are inattentive and if they’re not used to seeing cyclists, they will hit us. Applying restrictive license plate laws, helmet laws, and so on, make bike riding less safe because of this: cars will hit us.
Pedestrians and cyclists are in conflict in NYC because we are fighting over the scraps left to us by the car users who own the streets. We should take back street space from free car storage, widen sidewalks, make crossings safe, and provide two way bike paths everywhere we can.
And we should pay delivery cyclists enough money that they’re not screaming down the streets in order to make rent.
This is the path forward: build the infrastructure of the city so that it works for everyone. We cannot get safe streets by having the cops beat up everyone.
“As far as I can tell, bikes killed zero” Here’s one: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/09/16/senior-struck-by-citi-bike-has-died
I suggest you choose reality over blissful ignorance.
Wrong! E-bikes, scooters and bikers are a menace to anyone walking in NYC, EVERYONE knows this, at least you have some legal recourse if something happens with a car. Enough already.
At least two pedestrian deaths were confirmed in 2023 due to e-bikes. Two too many.
Agree that’s the right approach – should be taking one of the lanes on Columbus and making the existing bike lanes a two way or better yet just pedestrianize Broadway (like has been done downtown) or one of the Avenues so there is more space for pedestrians.
People who are hit by bikes do not report it to the police so we have no real statistics on how many people are actually hit by bikes, etc. Not being killed but severely injured (brain damage, crippled) is serious enough. We should not have to be killed for authorities to take notice. The public has to be educated about traffic rules -stopping at red lights, going the right way down one way streets-and they should be ticketed. Stop blaming cars when the people on bikes, etc are running wild. Car drivers do get tickets if a policeman sees an infraction. And..why protest the registration/licensing of e-bikes, etc? “Bad idea” for whom?
The article DID NOT advocate licensing bicyclists. It advocated registrating anything powered by more than human muscles!
Best solution 🙂
Bicyclists should walk, take the bus and subway.
Get rid of bike lanes. DOT can send bike funds to MTA.
Really miss Manhattan before Citibike – when it was only bike messengers in midtown
Great theories, here’s some more.
1. Etiquette was a community norm enforced by all. Now, no one will dare correct anyone for fear of being called racists, antisemite, or dead named.
2. Law enforcement starts and ends with the judge and DA. The rank and file cops will fill the holding cells every day if we let them. That’s not racist(see above) , that’s enforcement.
3. This all comes from “tone at the top”. Meaning that pandering politics needs to end and the folks who would like an ordered society need to wake up and elect actual real people.
4. There is zero chance this gets past the moderator.
Thank you.
For additional background, important to note that since the Bloomberg Administration, City DOT has been focusing policy and huge spending on encouraging bicycling/Citibike and growing the bike infrastructure.
In contrast, City DOT does no proactive messaging or PR encouraging use of core MTA bus and subway. And in a move that hurts bus transit, City DOT has implemented Open Streets on bus routes.
Someone else may wish to add the lengthy political backstory here, but for now will just say that City DOT definitely prioritizes bicycling over everything and everyone else – over pedestrians and bus riders and subway riders.
Incredible.
The DOT is run by the lobby Trans Alt. There is no independent DOT! Most of what the DOT does is create more and more bike lanes which cost hundreds of millions of dollars while the Mayor has cut funds to school lunches and closed libraries on Sundays. But for reasons it would take an investigative reporter to discover, the ablest anti-regulation bike centric visions of Trans Alt (Streetsblog, Open Plans, etc.) and it’s Golden Boy Mark Gorton are the #1 Priority of this City Government. Pedestrians sadly are not high on the list of priorities of the Adams Administration. FYI-something about the Wizard pulling all the strings. https://nypost.com/2024/06/16/us-news/meet-the-anti-vaxx-millionaire-donor-behind-congestion-pricing-and-rfk-jr/
How about parents and teachers consistently teaching children about what it means to be a good citizen, including being aware of other people’s needs and vulnerabilities, as well learning the local laws pertaining to sidewalk traffic.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I don’t feel unsafe navigating the city streets during the daytime. Disgusted quite often, sure, but I live on the UWS and work in Midtown and don’t have these close calls everyone else mentions. I do happen to have red hair and joke that you can see me from a mile away, so maybe that really does help. I don’t use my phone while walking and I don’t use headphones/earbuds either. Hmm
I’m in my late 70’s, have no cell phone, earbuds, headphone or wheeled anything except a very loud voice, and I scream at cars in crosswalk when it’s the pedestrians’ very short allotment of time to walk, and scream at bicyclists, scooters, and motorbikes riding on the sidewalks. Recently, the number of delivery workers riding on sidewalks has also greatly increased. Last week on the Broadway/West End sidewalks in the 90’s/100’s, I twice saw a tall, middle-aged guy with his son on his shoulders on a very, very fast motorized skateboard. We all need to scream at these law-breakers. We walkers can hear cars and trucks approaching, but not the silent bikes and battery-powered people movers.
Even if there was no danger, pedestrians have the right to walk down the street without always being on guard for what the bikes and motorbikes are going to do on the sidewalk. I’ve not been hit by a bike or motor bike (yet) but I don’t like to have to gird myself every time I see one coming or hear one zipping up behind me. It is a matter of safety but it is also a matter of keeping the peace.
I do think it’s important to note that pedestrians themselves may bear a little responsibility here: I know I’ve had dozens more possible collisions w/ phone-, headphone-, & earbud-oblivious pedestrians than w/ bicycles & e-bikes…
Absolutely accurate and perfectly said!
Excellent precis of the situation. This is especially timely as the Senior population is increasing in number. Added to the number of clefts, gouges and potholes in city streets this is a very dangerous situation for anyone with mobility issues.
I do think increased usage of Mass Transit is critical. I would add only one thing: Mass Transit is too expensive for so many. We need to raise the minimum wage or lower the fares.
My pipe dream is that Mass Transit should be free.
The delivery apps are reaping huge financial rewards without continuing to the community and putting us in danger. They need to register, train and insure their deliveristas.
AMEN! I am so tired of playing dodgeball with all these scooters,, bikes, skateboarders…..
There is an overlapping issue that ought to be mentioned in this discussion. Pedestrians who pay no respect to their own personal safety by walking or even running across streets anywhere they want to. They literally take their lives in their hands by coming out of nowhere right in front of a bus or a car or a truck and come “this close” to getting hit or run over. Totally crazy and there really is no way to stop them.
I find that I walk less now that bikes, e-bikes, electric and kick scooters have multiplied. How many times must I look, in either direction before I cross the street or step out of a bus? What about the dogs that I walk? How many times have e-bikes silently wizzed by us on the sidewalk? It’s insane.
Also…
I am a parent.
My kids had stand-up scooters when they were younger – but used sparingly in the park or a “long” trip if there was no bus access.
Really concerning to see:
1. So many kids not walking (including middle-school kids) – instead using scooters on the sidewalk no matter how crowded.
2. So many parents letting toddlers cross the street on scooters and parents not holding the scooter or kids are behind parents who are looking at their phones.
Also concerning:
So many high school students on Citibike.
Like adults, they go through red lights, go the wrong way, ignore bike lanes, have earpods. Not unusual to see them with a friend sitting in the basket.
Dangerous for them and everyone else.
BTW not hard to get a school Metrocard….
In support of Point 2 above (registration): For 30+ years, I loved hopping on my (pedal-powered) bike to explore this endlessly intriguing city. Cars were seldom a problem. Drivers can usually be trusted to stop on red, go the right way down one-way streets, signal for turns, and stay alert to their surroundings. For my personal safety, I stopped riding when the streets and bike paths became a bedlam of electric bikes, scooters, skateboards etc. driven recklessly at high speeds by irresponsible riders wearing earbuds or chatting on their phones. Personal responsibility is implicit in registration.
All this to get a chicken parm or sushi 5 minutes faster, or get home faster – it’s horrible.
If our representatives would just step up this could be easy to fix. Require QR codes on all Citibikes regular and electric and QR codes on all delivery bikes. Get out the old meter maid playbook and start ticketing them for every infraction. Scan the QR code – First time warning -second time scan for $20 fine and go up from there. Their credit cards are already linked to the bicycle!
Bicycles, ebikes and scooters are NOT pedestrians – stop looping them in with us.
It’s time to take back our streets and sidewalks!
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Way to go, Vic!
Great analysis, Vic. Now, how should common sense changes be made to the current political and regulatory environment? Why not ask Gale Brewer, the Energizer Bunny of NYC politics, to get involved?
If people would walk a block or two to pick up their own restaurant food, ebike problem eliminated by 90%.
Cyclists are a danger to both pedestrians AND motorists. Now that they’re motorized, they’ve gone beyond being a mere nuisance. They have become a true city hazard.
The madness which has enveloped our streets, sidewalks and parks since the advent of legalizing motorized bikes (e-bikes) and consequently mopeds on our streets is the biggest dereliction of duty I have witnessed by a Mayor and a DOT Chair who is appointed, not elected. The worst things get the more the DOT doubles down promoting e-bikes in all parts of the city particularly where they don’t want them! The more Citibike corrals are forced onto our streets when in fact riders are some of the worst offenders the more we are endangered. One can only wonder why legislation is languishing in the State Legislature as if there wasn’t a crisis here in which everyday New Yorkers are being seriously injured and killed on our streets by e-vehicles and mopeds.
The only grassroots organization effective in trying to address and stem this problem is nycevsa.org with 850 members and over 80 victims of e-bikes as members. I am an original member working for 2 years to license and register e-bikes in order to be able to change the behavior as being held accountable does for e-riders and cyclists running red lights, riding on sidewalks, riding the wrong way down our streets and speeding over the speed limit! And daily hitting pedestrians and 98% of the time riding away.
Many of our elected leaders appear to be too attached to the monied lobby Trans Alt who stand firmly behind the demands of no regulation of any kind of e-vehicles. They want no enforcement by police and they indeed seem to have succeeded at that. These conflicted elected leaders from community boards to city council members to Assembly leaders who don’t support regulation of e-vehicles have it ALL WRONG and they may find that out in upcoming elections.There is no issue that has united New Yorkers more than the utter failure to regulate dangerous e-vehicles, scooters and to a large extent (unlicensed) mopeds. There has been some NYPD effort to confiscate mopeds for riding illegally and unlicensed-a rather meager effort considering that police are being injured by them as well.
So we remain potential victims for just walking out of our apartments on to the sidewalk, for a walk in the park, or a trip to the supermarket. Try telling a Citibiker or an e-biker not to ride on the sidewalk and you will be sure to be cursed at. Despite our age, the amount of taxes we pay, or our station in life! This is a disgrace.
Please join us in the fight for common sense regulation at nycevsa.org E-Vehicle Safety Alliance. No one is safe in this current rendition of New York!
Call your council members and tell them to PASS Intro 0606-2024 Bill to Register and License E-Vehicles.
Call your council members and tell them to PASS Intro 0060-2024 Bill to Prohibit E-Vehicles from All Parks and Greenways.
I have to think it all boils down to enforcement. Safety, quality of life, cleanliness. The laws exist and most clear minded individuals obey the guidelines, but those who don’t have no repercussions to face.
We need new leadership, folks. Remember that when you vote.
Needs to be drastic increase in penalties for out of control, dangerous bicyclists, moped riders, e-bikers etc etc. I’m talking actual prison and at the very least, massive fines.
BRAVO!
How about people taking the focus off their phones and onto people who are trying to walk on the sidewalks? How about people taking a class with the Dog Whisperer to learn proper etiquette? How about a certain amount of space that MUST be free on sidewalks – 12’/whatever – because the little space that is left on sidewalks is sometimes taken up with signs for restaurants. How about people stop wanting more more more more more? How about civility?
If ever a solution to the problems described by Mr. Losick is to be found, it will require political courage long absent in the City of New York. Hope those who represent the UWS and hold the public trust read this.
I love this! We’re supposed to have the largest police force in the country. Where are they!
Thank you for expressing the feelings of probably thousands of people who regularly walk the street of this city. I have one friend who was killed on Broadway by Lincoln Center and three others hit hard eough to be hospitalized for any where from one day to one month and with lasting orthopedic issues as a result. Additionally it is no longer safe to walk the promenade in RiversidePark thanks to motorized scooters and bikes. How long will it be before a child running to or from the playground is severely injured?
Its unfortunate but this administration has zero interested in addressing this problem. We have to find a way to change this tide before one of the most important gifts of New York City, the joy of walking the city, is
no longer possible.
How about a documentary film on this, including interviews with all those involved in encouraging and perpetuating the madness, and those victimized by it? You’ve already got the title! And getting footage of the conditions won’t be difficult. Just step outside. The thing will write itself. And it may help with these dangerous conditions.
Thanks for a well-written article.
Amen!
Completely agree, and well put, thank you.
I totally agree. Now you must look both ways on 1 way streets. The electric vehicles need licenses. No bikes on the sidewalk. Many years ago a friend was knocked over by a bicycle while he was walking on the sidewalk. He hit his head on the cement and died. 15 years old !
Bravo!
I agree with all that is said here, but I am perplexed by the anti-bike anti-micromobility undertone. I ride my bike daily, but I am also a pedestrian. As a pedestrian, I too do not want to share the sidewalk with bicycles, I too want all wheeled vehicles to follow the law. I also, want a safe place for them to do so. I don’t understand why we cannot make common cause on all of these points. If we were to work together we could achieve more.
Peter,
I have lived in Manhattan for my entire life.
It used to be the best place to walk.
But since Bloomberg pushing bicycles, Citibike and bike lanes, it is constantly depressing to walk around.
Bicyclists go through red lights, the wrong way, endanger pedestrians.
(Citibikers are the most egregious iMO -and won’t hesitate to curse any pedestrian who even politely objects.)
Bike lanes have made the streets and streetscapes a mess and especially impacted bus transit. 8th Avenue is a special mess as DOT expanded bike lanes – and impacted MTA buses and Port Authority buses.
Incredible that DOT prioritizes bikes over mass transit.
More could be said but doubt that WSR wants more complaints…
Anyway, bicyclists should take the subway or bus.
It’s impossible to make common cause with people who don’t believe in common cause. The e-bike and Citibike community is more likely to curse at you than try and come to an accommodation. Why should they? The city has shown them they can do whatever they want and they won’t be stopped, fined, or held accountable. Even when they kill someone in a crosswalk when they run a red light. NYC seems to have deemed e-bikes, Citibikes and sometimes cyclists immunity. I remember a time where they’d take your bike if you violated a traffic law and you’d have to go to the precinct and pay a fine to get it back. You might not believe that law enforcement in NY once had that sort of role in street life but it did. That NY no longer exists.
Hear, Hear Vic!
Bravo! I’m super vigilent every step on the sidewalk or crosswalk, and get upset with my husband for ignoring looking the wrong way “up” bikelanes, as they often have wrong way riders, too!
I push granddaughter’s stroller once or twice a week, and was CLIPPED by a CitiBike rider, dressed in work garb, as she turned to ride the wrong way up a one way street I was crossing with the light.
And more recently, as I lumbered up 70th to Lennox Neigborhood House, a bike came up on the sidewalk and clipped my gym bag, throwing me off balance. Two of the employees I know were right there, and helped me steady myself.
Since then, I stop when I see them coming where they don’t belong, and I will even position the empty stroller into their path and stare them down and state, emphatically, you DO NOT BELONG ON THE SIDEWALK! I got applause the other day.
PS: don’t tell my daughter I’ve become an enforcer!
I understand delivery people have quotas, times recorded, etc. and that’s a first step for the authorities to remove this from the vernacular. Years ago, Dominos Pizza, which had a delivery in 30 minutes or it’s free, got in trouble as a driver was involved ini some sort of accident.
Start with the little steps.
Don’t patronize a business that has the quotas and time limits, etc.
Completely agree.
I am in agreement. In the meantime, I feel we need to respond as a neighborhood and community through posterboard signs and a collective chant/battlecry. Here is how I imagine it: We could have an organized effort in which citizens of this neighborhood create large poster-board signs in common languages that say something like, “This community asks bicycles to stop at the red light.” And various similar statements. I imagine multiple posters hung up along bike lanes on each block. I am sure some will ignore the signs, but I expect it may become more embarrassing for e-bikers and bicyclists to run red lights after passing a series of these signs on each block. I think it could be a way that we can say, “We collectively see you and we don’t support what you are doing.” I think it could have the effect on riders of being watched rather than just having a random person yell once in awhile. In addition, I think we should have a neighborhood battle cry or chant that we collectively use when bikes run red lights and go the wrong direction. Using the same chant, especially if multiple people are doing so regularly, I think could actually have the effect of shaming someone enough to stop the behavior. I’m not sure what the phrase should be, but I know there are people here who could come up with something catchy and impacting. BTW, I am a bicyclist and a pedestrian.
It’s also the proliferation of food delivery. I say go back to eating out at restaurants. Stop the madness of delivery for every little thing.
my uber slam braked for a bike on colombus avenue the bike rider was zig zagging in between cars not in the bike lane , I have serious spinal injuries and no lawyer or uber would help out with this accident, of course the bike rider went on his way , no license, no insurance no nothing
i am left w serious injuries and no one to pick up the bills but me
this happens every single day on upper west side, you cannot cross Amstedam avenue at all
it is life threatiing, ppl are trying to leave this city
how much longer can we all go on like this
The law requires bicycles and other 2 wheel things to obey ALL traffic laws. What we need is for the NYPD to compassionately enforce that law. First — leaflet all delivery folks, second– stop offenders and issue a warning, finally — issue tickets that make folks pay a fine. The 26 is one of the worst at making us safe.