E-bikes are slaughtering harmless New Yorkers in fires and collisions — yet silly ideologies preserve the metropolis’s leaders from cracking down.
Part of it is the “micromobility cult,” an obsession with boosting every attainable different to automotive visitors; half is the insane avoidance of anything that dangers hindering unlawful immigrants.
On Wednesday, a hearth in Bronx public housing killed an 11-year-old and injured others because an e-bike blocked the condominium’s only exit.
More lethal fires are began by e-bike batteries, killing at least 31 New Yorkers since 2023.
Yet the metropolis fails to crack down with new legal guidelines or more durable enforcement; equally, NYCHA guidelines allow e-bikes and lithium-battery charging in residences with few caveats.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave away the drawback with his feedback on the Bronx tragedy, first calling it a “horrific reminder of the danger that lithium-ion battery fires can pose” but then merely pleading with New Yorkers to “store any micromobility devices outside rather than inside their homes.”
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Nobody calls them “micromobility devices” unless they’re paying fealty to the cult.
Consider the price merely at New York City Housing Authority buildings: E-bike-battery fires in NYCHA developments jumped from 13 in 2024 to 22 already this 12 months.
E-bike collisions have killed at least 133 New Yorkers since 2019, yet Mamdani in March ordered the NYPD to give up handing harmful e-bike drivers prison summonses for low-level visitors offenses.
And the City Council retains dithering on the problem, even after it rushed to ban horse carriages over a single loss of life.
The politicians know many unlawful migrants earn a dwelling as deliveristas, and summonses could put them on ICE radar — so enforcement is out the window.
Treat e-bikes and their batteries as the menaces they can be, or let more innocents die.
Lose the ideology, and cease the carnage.