While MInneapolis’ mayor Betsy Hodges has spent four years diffusing her efforts over a bewildering jumble of social-justice virtue-signals, the poor woman will never top the list of “Mayors with Bizarre Priorities” list while New York’s Bill DiBlasio is in office.<\/p>\n
Hizzoner’s latest target?\u00a0 In a city with rising crime, infrastructure that’s crumbling faster than an Alka-Seltzer tablet in a glass of Seven-Up, and a financial situation that is rapidly decaying, DiBlasio is…<\/p>\n
…confiscating electric bicycles – which are booming in popularity, especially among delivery riders for stores and restaurants; they are in fact the most efficient way of navigating the most street-space-starved city in America:<\/p>\n
On Thursday, de Blasio announced the nation\u2019s largest city would start fining restaurants in addition to operators, expanding and formalizing a style of broken-windows policing favored by the NYPD, which has confiscated 900 e-bikes this year. His justification? E-bikes are \u201cjust too dangerous,\u201d the mayor said at a press conference.<\/p>\n
How dangerous are they? Nearly 70 pedestrians (and 13 cyclists) have been killed by cars, trucks, and buses in New York City this year. No one has been killed by a bicycle. As for e-bikes in particular? The NYPD has no data on e-bike accidents or complaints. Nor does the city have any information about how the crackdown affects restaurants or riders. De Blasio was acting on instinct: The crackdown began when a local cyclist, Matthew Shefler, called into his radio show to complain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Slower, more expensive deliveries; more congestion; yet another handicap for small business, even the ones that don’t get fined.<\/p>\n
Betsy has some huge shoes to fill in the “bizarre priorities” deparatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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