20 is plenty. New York City has the opportunity to make our streets safer by crafting a thoughtful transition to 20 mph streets and bike lanes. Testimony from our Executive Director, Ben Furnas, at yesterday's City Council hearing on e-bikes and illegal high-speed devices:

New York City must ban deceptive marketing around high-speed devices, phase out the fastest e-bikes, establish a trade-in program for the fastest e-bikes, and regulate the delivery app industry.

Thank you to @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social for testifying at today's City Council hearing on "e-bike" safety.

Yesterday, a 75-year-old man in the Bronx was critically injured by an SUV driver who did not yield to him in the crosswalk. The same day, a 71-year-old woman in Brooklyn was critically injured by an SUV driver. Both New Yorkers are in the hospital with life-altering injuries.

Yesterday on 34th Street, a truck driver killed a delivery worker on her bike.

On Wednesday, the City Council is hosting a hearing on e-bike safety in New York City. The bills being discussed are not focused on protecting New Yorkers on bikes from trucks and cars.

This morning, on 34th Street near Herald Square, a dump-truck driver hit and killed a New Yorker on a bike. The victim was a delivery worker riding a JOCO rental e-bike, a low-speed pedal-assist bike. The truck driver fled the scene.

Cost me $12 to ride home from Brooklyn Borough Hall yesterday, a distance of 2 miles.

Even outside of Manhattan, congestion pricing has created opportunities like this one in western Queens, where there are fewer cars on the road. DOT should proactively find other streets where public space might be reclaimed for people, and act with haste to redesign them.

The City has to make Citi Bike affordable again!

Ballot proposal 3 "would remove some steps that delay major transportation projects, in hopes of speeding up street safety initiatives, including bike and bus lanes, by 33%... allowing the DOT to start working on projects before presenting to community boards"

We applaud the Mamdani administration for speeding up bus commutes and improving street safety for tens of thousands of Bronx residents. The completion of the Tremont Avenue busway is a major accomplishment achieved in Year 1. We hope to see DOT rapidly roll out more busways!

New York City has a responsibility to both investigate these crashes and prevent the next one. CIS can’t fall behind. The NYPD needs to investigate more crashes to do their part in New York City’s Vision Zero ambitions.