I stopped ordering door dash after VC stopped subsidizing it - maybe like 5 years ago haha. I just realized the solution was for me to call a restaurant for pickup and bike myself. Turns out it was quicker, cheaper, and plus side of exercise.

But yeah, in reality pedestrians suffer because the side walk is so much smaller than roads with parking for cars. I am all for eliminating all free parking and returning the space to bikes and pedestrians.

It’s almost like we could convert two free parking spaces that serve two people for a hundred or so bikes. Why are they competing for sidewalk space?

It’s not working at all as intended. Capitalism assumes a competitive market, the energy companies are oligopolies and have no competition.

F that, I live in NYC -

The surface area of the brain is about 233 to 465 square inches (1,500 to 2,000 cm2). So let’s just say mine is 360 in and call it 2.5 square ft. I think the average rent is like 5K/month in Manhattan right now and one bedroom is like 750 sq ft (that’s a nice one).

So yeah just to live in my head it would be like $17/month and with security deposit, brokers fee, and 40x income requirements, I doubt you could afford it given your prolific career as a reddit troll.

Once again you spew misleading information with your anti micro-mobility agenda:

“There was a lithium ion battery involved with the fire...we're not sure what the involvement in the fire was or what the cause is yet. That's still being investigated"

So something could have caught fire and a battery was ignited by the fire or the battery could have started the fire. Regardless we DONT KNOW.

On e-bikes and scooters, yes we need regulation which will most like lead to UL certified batteries. Pretty much any lith ion battery fire can be traced back to cheap and mishandled batteries from China. Micromobility makes our environment cleaner and helps reduce car presence which is the true killer of pedestrians and walkable urban spaces in NYC. Yes there are growing pains, but change in the long run is for the better.

Literally what I and many other activists fight for is removing free parking to open up the city for people centric infrastructure which yes includes more bike lanes. Right now the the bike lane infrastructure is not sufficient and to make it adequate for demand will require removing free parking. Cycling also continues to grow:

https://www.silive.com/news/2021/10/nyc-cycling-surge-530k-daily-bike-trips-represents-26-increase-in-recent-years.html

That isn’t a correlation question, thats just math of square footage of space used by free parking versus the opportunity cost. Here is a great resource for this.

https://nyc25x25.org

Data aside, I actually do believe someone who chooses to use an ebike as opposed to buying a car, should be held in high esteem for making a pro environmental choice while also taking about much less space in our city.

Effectively reversing a policy without imposing any regulations or standards is “ignoring the risk”

My latter point is that there are of course folks who fear for fire risks of unregulated batteries. But they do not value that fear over the rights of deliveristas.

I’ll copy my reply above:

NYCHA literally reversed the decision to ban ebikes in public housing due to deliverista rights. It would be fair to say the current administration and the folks backlashing to the ban identify as the left.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/10/21/exclusive-nycha-backs-down-from-banning-e-bikes-on-its-property/

This is to say that there is a heavy contingent of folks on the left who will fight to continue having ebikes in public housing even if there is no regulation. It’s not a question of ignoring fire risks just that there are folks on the left who say the rights of deliveristas are > the fire risk hazards at the moment.

If that wasn’t true, then why reverse the policy without first implementing standards?

Sure it takes some critical thinking and I realize you can’t expect that from Reddit but here it goes:

The threat to free parking is bike lanes not ebike parking. Ebikes have made cycling both more accessible and effective as a means to get around the city. Their mass adoption warrants the need to adapt infrastructure to accommodate the demand.

Thus the logical next step is to perform road diets and create protected bike lanes to increase micromobility throughout the city as opposed to maximizing very inefficient cars that take up much space to accommodate what is usually one driver.

This is a huge threat to car dealerships who overwhelming contribute to conservatives candidates and also why conservatives are against congestion pricing etc. See the open data below.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=t2300

Don’t be obtuse. The threat to free parking is bike lanes not ebike parking. Ebikes have made cycling both more accessible and effective as a means to get around the city. Their mass adoption warrants the need to adapt infrastructure to accommodate the demand.

Thus the logical next step is to perform road diets and create protected bike lanes to increase micromobility throughout the city as opposed to maximizing very inefficient cars that take up much space to accommodate what is usually one driver.

This is a huge threat to car dealerships who overwhelming contribute to conservatives candidates. and also why conservatives are against congestion pricing etc. See the open data below.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=t2300

NYCHA literally reversed the decision to ban them in public housing due to deliverista rights. It would be fair to say given the current administration and the backlash is coming from the left.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/10/21/exclusive-nycha-backs-down-from-banning-e-bikes-on-its-property/

On the right, the NY post has a well documented war on ebikes. A quick google search on ebikes and ny post will show you the depth of car brained insanity.

Edit: example from the right

https://nypost.com/2022/05/14/beware-the-e-bike-menace-in-nyc-they-must-be-banned

The issue is becoming too politicized.

The folks on the right see ebikes as a threat to free parking spaces and car centric NYC because they can be a legitimate car replacement so they over hype the risk.

The folks on the left ignore all the risks of battery fires and just make it about deliverista rights.

There is a sensible middle ground of regulated batteries and incentives to help ease the burden of higher quality and regulated bikes / bike batteries.