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NYC Mayor Takes Action To Make City Streets Safer:

Announces Citywide Speed Limit for E-Bikes and

E-Scooters, Presses for Action to Protect Delivery Workers

Pushes for Council Action on Adams Administration Bill to Create Commercial Delivery

License to Strengthen Delivery Worker, Battery, and Traffic Safety

OUR BUREAU
NEW YORK, NY
ew York City Mayor Eric Ad-
ams has announced a slate of
Nnew policies to enhance street
safety, including a citywide 15 mile-
per-hour speed limit for e-bikes and
e-scooters on city streets. Recognizing
that enforcement and physical safety
measures can only go so far, Mayor
Adams also renewed a push for the
City Council to take up legislation he
announced to create a commercial
delivery license to strengthen deliv-
ery worker, battery, and traffic safety.
Originally announced by Mayor Ad-
ams during his 2024 State of the City
address, the proposed legislation to
create a Department of Sustainable
Delivery has stalled in the City Council
for over nine months, without introduc-
ing it or holding a single public hearing
on it. Meanwhile, the Adams admin-
istration has held multiple roundtable across the five boroughs, but we have stand-up e-scooter users operate meters-per-hour (approximately 15
discussions with app companies, bike an obligation to keep everyone safe. their devices safely, but we are using miles-per-hour) in bike lanes.
companies, transportation advocacy We are also calling on our partners in every tool in our safety toolkit and Mayor Adams also today an-
groups, Business Improvement Dis- the City Council to pass our long-pro- studying worldwide best practices, to nounced the city is exploring install-
tricts (BIDs), hospitality industry lead- posed legislation that will strengthen ensure every New Yorker is traveling ing additional physical safety mea-
ers, and delivery workers, all of which delivery worker safety — it’s time to at safe speeds on our streets.” sures in city parks, including Central
City Council staff were invited to. protect delivery workers and all New The proposed rule to establish Park and Prospect Park, to protect
“I have heard, over and over Yorkers, once and for all.” a speed limit would prohibit e-bikes, both riders of e-bikes and pedestri-
again, from New Yorkers about how “With record bike ridership and electric scooters, and pedal-assist ans walking near them.
their safety — and the safety of their a historic expansion of our protected commercial bicycles from operat- This announcement is the lat-
children — has been put at risk due bike lane network, we’re making it ing at speeds greater than 15 miles- est step Mayor Adams is taking to
to speeding e-bikes and e-scooters, safer and easier than ever for the re- per-hour on city streets, the same enhance public safety for all New
and today, our administration is say- cord number of New Yorkers choos- speed limit that currently applies to Yorkers. The Adams administration
ing enough is enough: We are im- ing cycling by building infrastructure stand up e-scooters. The new rules has built a record 87.5 miles of new
plementing a new 15-mile-per-hour and providing education to meet the would also mirror best practices for protected bike lanes and upgraded
speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters moment,” said New York City De- e-bike speeds in many other areas an additional 20 miles of bike lanes in
that will make our streets safer,” said partment of Transportation Commis- of the world, including the Europe- the past three years alone to meet re-
Mayor Adams. “We’re proud of the sioner Ydanis Rodriguez. “Thank- an Union, which has implemented cord demand for bike infrastructure
work we’ve done to expand biking fully, the vast majority of e-bike and speed limits for e-bikes of 25 kilo- throughout New York City.

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