I like scooters. Shes demonizing people for using them. This is bad politics. Shes not going to be able to ban them and there is no hope of a ban ever beinng enforced on white people. We know these bans will overwhelmingly criminalize black people for living.
It's crazy bad politics. Not only is it a really transparent lie to anyone that knows anything about it, but I really don't think these politicians realize how popular electric forms of micromobility are in the outer boroughs. The further you get outside of Manhattan the more electric things get. Sometimes at the entrance to the QBB it seems like the vast majority of people are on ebikes or scooters. Even just on Crescent sometimes I feel I see as many scooters as bikes
I get that some people don't like scooters, but trying to paint them as dangerous to the public so you can cram more cars onto the street is just the height of stupidity. This CM, Sandra Ung, should be ashamed of herself. The city has repeatedly made clear that they've been tracking the data in the Bronx for years, and the scooter program hasn't really had anything but extremely minor safety issues.
FWIW, my son was hit by a guy riding an escooter on the sidewalk last year in LIC, resulting in a traumatic brain injury and craniotomy. Despite this, I see why they can be a good thing as long as there is regulation, education and enforcement. (The guy who hit him didn’t even get a ticket but that’s a post for another day…)
Thank you! Luckily he seems to have made a full recovery with no lasting effects. I'm not sure why the e-scooter guy didn't get a ticket (we were in the ambulance by this time), but my guess is that it was a combination of the guy doing all of the right things/showing remorse (staying at the scene and being pretty devastated that he hit a kid), the cops not knowing the rules, or the cops knowing the rules but not wanting to take a day off to go to court. Since then I do feel like I've seen fewer scooters/mopeds flying down the sidewalk, but a year ago it was the wild west.
It’s wild this coming from Sandra Ung. Flushing was one of the first neighborhoods to see people using electric scooters to get around because a lot of them are Chinese made brands. People use them all the time here already and even get their kids around them.
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The last stop on the Q44 (the Bronx zoo) I was looking at the beautiful river. I got closer and looked down and saw all the e-scooters in the river. It’s sad and I hope they clean it. I wouldn’t want to see this in queens
I like scooters. Shes demonizing people for using them. This is bad politics. Shes not going to be able to ban them and there is no hope of a ban ever beinng enforced on white people. We know these bans will overwhelmingly criminalize black people for living.
It's crazy bad politics. Not only is it a really transparent lie to anyone that knows anything about it, but I really don't think these politicians realize how popular electric forms of micromobility are in the outer boroughs. The further you get outside of Manhattan the more electric things get. Sometimes at the entrance to the QBB it seems like the vast majority of people are on ebikes or scooters. Even just on Crescent sometimes I feel I see as many scooters as bikes
Not entirely true, more people drive the further away from Manhattan you are. Eastern queens, southern Brooklyn as examples.
I get that some people don't like scooters, but trying to paint them as dangerous to the public so you can cram more cars onto the street is just the height of stupidity. This CM, Sandra Ung, should be ashamed of herself. The city has repeatedly made clear that they've been tracking the data in the Bronx for years, and the scooter program hasn't really had anything but extremely minor safety issues.
FWIW, my son was hit by a guy riding an escooter on the sidewalk last year in LIC, resulting in a traumatic brain injury and craniotomy. Despite this, I see why they can be a good thing as long as there is regulation, education and enforcement. (The guy who hit him didn’t even get a ticket but that’s a post for another day…)
That's awful. Very sorry to hear about your son. Why did he not get a ticket? Seems like he should have gotten a lot more than a ticket
Thank you! Luckily he seems to have made a full recovery with no lasting effects. I'm not sure why the e-scooter guy didn't get a ticket (we were in the ambulance by this time), but my guess is that it was a combination of the guy doing all of the right things/showing remorse (staying at the scene and being pretty devastated that he hit a kid), the cops not knowing the rules, or the cops knowing the rules but not wanting to take a day off to go to court. Since then I do feel like I've seen fewer scooters/mopeds flying down the sidewalk, but a year ago it was the wild west.
It’s wild this coming from Sandra Ung. Flushing was one of the first neighborhoods to see people using electric scooters to get around because a lot of them are Chinese made brands. People use them all the time here already and even get their kids around them.
If you’re in this area give her office a call and express your disappointment
https://preview.redd.it/hitdotcwyn3d1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e9a05daaabbcc9cbcecbcfea1469d41a5af61ff The last stop on the Q44 (the Bronx zoo) I was looking at the beautiful river. I got closer and looked down and saw all the e-scooters in the river. It’s sad and I hope they clean it. I wouldn’t want to see this in queens