Re: New York's Crackdown on Ebikes

On 5/26/2025 10:59 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 5/26/2025 8:38 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 5/26/2025 4:16 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2025 21:36:00 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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New York Times article on police cracking down on ebike traffic
violations. Let's see if this will get people past the paywall:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/ebikes-scooters- cyclists- nyc.html? unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.voH2.AOcHv0jrnp79&smid=url-share

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“This is a direct attack on immigrant workers,” Ms. Guallpa said. “The
intent is to criminalize workers and to create a situation where our
communities could be targets for deportation.”
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Typical NYT woke nonsense...
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-- C'est bon
Soloman

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+1 with the typical misdirection and conflation.
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Legal Resident Aliens (taxpaying, working people who cannot vote) are ignored, along with US citizens. Criminal illegal aliens who, by Statute, cannot work and who are subject to summary deportation by the same Statutes, are where her sympathies lie.

 Damn. The right wing of this newsgroup is always on hair trigger!
 The article contains over 2000 words. Of those, only about three paragraphs mention immigrant delivery workers. The rest deals with the disparity between ebike and car enforcement policies, noting that cars kill far, far more pedestrians. It doesn't even mention that NYC life is totally dominated by the negative effects of car traffic. Yet people are enraged about the comparatively minuscule effects of ebikes, and ebike riders are in some ways being treated more harshly than car drivers.
 Look, I think ebike riders should ride legally. I think U.S. ebikes are too fast, and/or should be legally treated more like motorcycles - meaning integrated into traffic and kept off bike paths.
 But you guys ignore all that, blinded by the brief mention of immigrants. You never fail to respond to right wing dog whistles, even if  you have to blow the whistle yourself.
 

Braindead magatards like the floriduh dumbass will consistently look for a political scapegoat for any issue they have based their ignorant opinions on, as is shown by his parroting of magatard groupthink nonsense.
Andrew isn't as bad as most but even he more recently is allowing himself to get sucked into the magatard groupthink propaganda - there is no evidence in that article to support "Criminal illegal aliens....are where her sympathies lie."
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