Speed Limits for E-Bikes, E-Scooters, and Pedal-Assist Commercial Bicycles

Online comments: 849

• Charles Fisher

  The City fails to take action on most speeding, red light running, and other dangerous behavior by drivers. This proposed rule targets a group of road users that comparatively cause extremely few injuries. Why should an e-bike be limited to 15 mph from 20 mph when a Dodge Charger with illegal modified exhaust system can speed by a school every day at 55 mph with no consequences? Thank you

  Comment added June 17, 2025 9:09am

• Elaina Mendiola

  I do not support this rule change to 15 mph. I use my e-bike to get around the city, and this rule will make my life so much harder.

  Comment added June 17, 2025 11:43am

• Jackson Chabot

  Echoing what Charles said, “The City fails to take ANY action on most speeding, red light running, and other dangerous behavior by car drivers. This proposed rule targets a group of road users that comparatively cause extremely few injuries. Why should an e-bike be limited to 15 mph from 20 mph when a Dodge Charger with illegal modified exhaust system can speed by a school every day at 55 mph with no consequences?”

  Comment added June 18, 2025 10:08am

• Jehiah Czebotar

  NY VTL 1642 (26.(a)) prohibits NYC from establishing a speed limit “throughout the city” at a limit below 20 mph. A citywide limit of 15mph on commercial bicycles is such a prohibited limit.
  NY VTL 1642 (26.(b)) requires that a city wide speed limit applicable throughout such city shall only be lowered or raised pursuant to a local
  law. This proposed rule making is not a local law.

  https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/1642

  There is no proposed definition for “pedal-assist commercial bicycle” for which this provision applies so this rule is unenforceable.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 10:19am

• kevin

  This is a terrible solution to the problem. E bikes should be encouraged to go in the car lane and speeds should be slowed across the city to match class 1 + 2 ebikes (20 mph). If you want deliveristas to ride more responsibly, the pay structure of the apps needs to be changed. This rule change is backwards and illegal. Build more infrastructure for non car based transport. Build more infrastructure for non motorized transport

  Comment added June 18, 2025 10:50am

• S

  Good idea. But no penalties mentioned for violators.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 11:52am

• Yvonne Groseil

  This is a bad joke. At age 88 I would not survive being hit by a bike going 2 mph let alone 15. We need Priscilla’s Law to get visible licenses on these vehicles.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 11:56am

• THIS RULE IS NOT ENFORCEABLE

  The NYC DOT’s proposed rule to cap e-bike and scooter speeds at 15 MPH is a band-aid and insults the intelligence. While this may look good on paper, it is utterly meaningless without enforcement. Riders regularly break existing laws—racing through red lights, riding on sidewalks, and endangering pedestrians—without consequence. A speed limit that cannot be enforced because these vehicles lack license plates or registration is an empty gesture.

  Real safety comes from accountability, not unenforceable rules. Priscilla’s Law, which would require visible ID markings and registration for e-micromobility devices, offers a real solution—but it has been blocked by self-serving lobbying pressure from Transportation Alternatives and others. This rule does nothing to protect New Yorkers, especially the elderly, from reckless e-bike riders. Until the City implements meaningful enforcement and holds delivery platforms and CitiBike accountable, this rule is just political theater.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 12:04pm

• The Rule Ignores the Real Safety Crisis

  If an elderly person is hit by a 15 MPH e-bike on a sidewalk or in a crosswalk, the impact is still dangerous and potentially deadly. A speed limit in isolation does nothing to prevent sidewalk riding or reckless behavior, and it offers no comfort to those who have already been injured by such collisions.

  Without Priscilla’s Law which would -with identifiable license plate numbers and registration, hold lawbreaking e-bike riders to account -this new rule is an embarassing smoke and mirror mitigaiton.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 12:10pm

• Sidewalk Riding and Red Light Running Are Rampant

  Can’t tell you how many times I’ve barely dodged E-mobility riders riding on sidewalks, running red lights, traveling against traffic, and weaving dangerously close to me and other pedestrians—all of which already violate existing traffic laws. These infractions go completely unenforced, and are daily hazards to me as an elder, to children, and yes even dogs…one was killed a few weeks ago!

  Simply posting a 15 MPH rule will not change that reality. Accountability will!

  Many elderly people have already been hit by speeding e-bikes on sidewalks or in a crosswalk-the impact has been horrific, dangerous and potentially deadly. A 15 MPH speed limit in isolation does nothing to prevent sidewalk riding or reckless behavior, and it offers no comfort to those who have already been injured by such collisions.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 12:19pm

• Political Pressure and Policy Cowardice

  The 15 MPH new amended rule to be implemented by the avowed arbiters of “safety” -the DOT-flies in the face of real mitigation and is nothing less than dereliction of its duty as stewards to actually, really, truly protect pedestrians.

  Would that the DOT’s Rasputin manipulating lobbying organization Transportation Alternatives and affiliated advocacy groups not have aggressively lobbied against real accountability measures, such as Priscilla’s Law, we might not be here with only superficial ‘fixes’.

  The DOT’s proposed rule reads more like a symbolic gesture to appease public concern than a meaningful safety regulation. Mayor Adams’ administration continues to downplay or ignore the cries of communities pleading for safety and order on their sidewalks and streets.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 12:28pm

• John Campo

  Stop the insanity no E-skate boards no E-uniwheels no E-boogie boards no E-vehicles of any kind with out a license, and insurance and a visible plate. Any E-vehicle cannot exceed 20 MPH on a city street and E-vehicles are not allowed on bike paths period. Now enforce that law that was on the books for the last hundred years for a reason.. NYCEVSA.com

  Comment added June 18, 2025 2:08pm

• KevinM

  This appears arbitrary, unenforceable, and unrealistic.
  There is also a safety concern for E-Bike riders if they cannot match the speed of passing vehicles that are 100x heavier.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 5:02pm

• Geoffrey Thomas

  This rule, as written, is unrealistic and unenforceable. It will do nothing to solve a real safety problem, and it will only cause more problems. It also does nothing to regulate electric mopeds and electric motorcycles.

  Unpowered bicycles can easily go 15 mph or more, especially in “Brooklyn of ample hills” as Walt Whitman put it, on bridges, etc. If we’re going to put specific numbers in, we should be serious about what those numbers mean. This rule requires e-bikes to go SLOWER than unpowered bicycles, including in areas completely separated from pedestrian traffic like the bike lanes on bridges. This is nonsensical, and to the extent anyone follows the rule, it puts everyone at risk.

  This will lead to one of two enforcement outcomes. Either the city will pull over every cyclist coming off a bridge or at the foot of a hill to see if their bicycle is an e-bike (while also making the roads more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians alike as they navigate around the traffic stop), or there will be a law on the books that nobody is enforcing (except, perhaps, when the city is looking for a pretext to arrest someone for reasons completely unrelated to safety).

  I recently took a trip on CitiBike after speeds were lowered to 15 mph, on a route that like most of the city lacks bike lanes. I felt significantly less safe in the traffic lanes because it is harder to keep up with traffic, but there is not enough space for a car to legally and safely pass me. So cars behind me are slowed down, contributing to congestion. My ability to get out of the way of a collision with a pedestrian or vehicle was limited because of the lower speed. I fear that CitiBike riders will decide that it’s safer for them to ride on sidewalks, which is the exact opposite of what rulemaking should encourage.

  It is unquestionable that there are serious risks and safety problems on our streets. This is an unserious approach. The city has a duty to solve problems and not engage in political theater that will just cause more problems.

  There are several other approaches that would be better than this rule. For instance, a city-wide 20 mph speed limit on all vehicles would be legal (see Jehiah’s comment about legal authority), would not cause e-bikes to be required to go slower than unpowered bikes, and would not cause e-bikes to be unable to keep up with traffic; everyone would share the same 20mph limit. It also makes enforcement much easier, because it would apply to mopeds and motorcycles as well as e-bikes. There are downsides to this approach, but it would be much better than the current one.

  Last fall I submitted testimony regarding Intro 606, which was also an unserious approach that would not accomplish the goals it promised to accomplish. Much of what I wrote applies to this proposal too. Please see especially pages 3-7 here: https://ldpreload.com/p/intro-606-ebike-testimony.pdf

  I encourage the city to find a serious approach to addressing a serious problem.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 5:23pm

• Meredith Abrams

  NY VTL 1642 (26.(a)) prohibits NYC from establishing a speed limit
  “throughout the city” at a limit below 20 mph. A citywide limit of 15mph on commercial bicycles is such a prohibited limit.

  NY VTL 1642 (26. (b)) requires that a city wide speed limit applicable throughout such city shall only be lowered or raised pursuant to a local law. This proposed rule making is not a local law.
  There is no proposed definition for “pedal-assist commercial bicycle” so this rule is unenforceable.

  Furthermore, the real threat to safety on our streets is cars, particularly oversized trucks and SUVs. Regulate those before coming for hardworking deliveristas and commuters on bike, whose statistical impact on safety pales to the carnage imposed by car and truck drivers.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 5:56pm

• J. Allison Crockett

  How do the supporters of this rule to limit the speed of bikes and e-bikes possibly think the rule is enforceable? NYC needs to have Pricilla’s law passed so that any operator breaking ANY rules can be identified. Passing laws (rules) that cannot be enforced only increases lawlessness.

  Comment added June 18, 2025 7:45pm

• Nathan Dennis

  This is an absolutely foolish decision. Of all the dangers on the road — e bikes are the ones you’re going to lower? Cars cause the absolute majority of fatalities, and yet you’re trying to slow e-bikes to a crawl? If e bikes are supposed to share the streets with cars, how the hell is this supposed to work with bikes capped? How about making more protected bike lanes, suspending licenses of dangerous CAR drivers, and removing illicit dirt bikes from the roads?

  Comment added June 21, 2025 12:58am

• Dan

  Requiring pedal assist bikes to be capped at 15mph while sharing roads / driving lanes with cars going 20 – 25 mph is not just impractical but it’s dangerous for everyone involved. This proposal ignores the realities of traffic flow and undermines safety for both cyclists and drivers.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 7:05am

• Alex Izen

  This will result in a notable cost increase for users, now facing longer ride times as a result of reduced speed.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 7:56am

• Daniel McNickle

  The proposed rule is DANGEROUS and will kill cyclists. Because of New York City’s grossly inadequate bicycling infrastructure, cyclists must routinely share lanes with motor vehicle traffic. To do this safely, cyclists must be allowed to ride at the prevailing speed of traffic. Drivers following cyclists in narrow lanes will often try to pass the cyclist in an unsafe manner to avoid having their own speed limited.
  If pedestrian safety is truly a priority then the solutions we seek are elsewhere. NYPD must be made to enforce the sidewalk riding ban consistently and fairly. Cyclists should be held accountable for following rules of the road: signaling, yielding right-of-way, riding in the direction of traffic, and riding in the street or in protected bike lanes. And the city must renew its commitment to installing protected bike infrastructure citywide, regardless of local community opinion. Paris, for example, has taken a very successful infrastructure-first approach to cycling and the rate of cycling has increased dramatically. More and more Parisians are moving around their city quickly, quietly, enjoyably, and cheaply on bicycles, and getting some much needed exercise while they do it. This could be New York, and we would all be better off for it.
  I urge you to reject this proposed rule change.
  Sincerely,
  Daniel G. McNickle
  Lifelong NYC Cyclist

  Comment added June 21, 2025 8:17am

• Henry Beebe-Center

  This rule is not based on empirical evidence, but rather anecdotes. E-bikes account for a very tiny fraction of the traffic fatalities/injuries in NYC. I urge the DOT to look and compare the bike/e-bike injury report to injuries that are a result of cars. The only reason e-bikes are on the chopping block is because they are novel, cars have been around for generations the injuries and deaths they cause are seen as a necessary side effect. Bikes and E-bikes are the SOLUTION to road safety, not the problem.

  We are in a crucial moment in which we should be doing everything we can to encourage people to try more sustainable transportation methods. This rule discourages e-biking and will put more people in the driver seat of cars, making our streets less safe.

  This is not the priority of a vision zero city.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 8:29am

• Alex Chichester

  I use my 7 speed e-bike to get around the city. This proposed rule would make my commute way longer and more difficult. This would require me to go *slower* than an unpowered bike, and would provide no increase in safety. As others have mentioned, this rule change seems arbitrary, unenforceable, illegal, and when far larger and more dangerous vehicles speed, run lights, and double park in the bike lane hilariously often, including oftentimes police vehicles, this is an insulting proposal.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 10:00am

• William Meehan

  This would be a terrible change for the city. The data clearly show that the vast majority of harmful injuries on NYC streets are caused by trucks and automobiles. And e-bikes are less dangerous even than mopeds, which are probably the true source of most “e-bike” complaints from people who cannot tell the difference. Furthermore, cyclists are safer when they’re able to ride at the same speed as the rest of traffic. It is entirely wrongheaded to limit bike speed to 15mph when automobiles and trucks are still allowed to go 25mph on most NYC streets. Instead, the city should pursue using Sammy’s Law to lower the citywide speed limit to 20mph for all road users.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 11:41am

• Jason

  The DOT has created a class of vehicle called “pedal assist commercial bicycle” in a previous rule and is now trying to regulate the maximum speed at which that class can be operated on city streets to 15 mph. This seems like it’s in violation of VTL §1642(26), which restricts the city’s ability to set speed limits to lower than 20 mph.

  I struggle to think of any justification for this rule-making maneuver that could not also be used to justify setting a de facto motor vehicle speed limit that is arbitrarily low, in clear violation of state law. For example, if this rule is determined to be legal, the DOT could create a new class defined as any vehicle weighing more than 1000 lbs (which would include every car/truck), and then regulate the maximum operational speed of that class to 10 mph.

  I’d also like to point out the glaring discrepancy between how this proposed rule was pitched to the public via a press release, and how the DOT has formally described its purpose in this rule-making process:

  From a June 4th press release: “New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced a slate of new policies to enhance street safety, including a citywide 15 mile-per-hour speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters on city streets.”

  From the ‘Statement of basis and purpose’ section: “Additionally, in order to apply consistent standards of operation to all e-mobility devices, DOT proposes to prohibit operating e-bikes and pedal-assist commercial bicycles at speeds in excess of 15 miles per hour.”

  The primary purpose of the rule that was pitched to the public by City Hall is “safety”, but the DOT does not mention safety at all here and rather writes that it’s about consistency. The DOT is tight-lipped about why this kind of consistency is so important, and does not even try to make the argument that it is about safety. Perhaps they realize that the safety angle is not justifiable in more formal contexts.

  The DOT writes “The proposed rule would thus change the speed limit for e-bikes and pedal-assist commercial bicycles from 25 miles per hour to 15 miles per hour”.

  This is incorrect. Class 1 and class 2 e-bikes have a 20 mph speed limit, while only class 3 e-bikes have a 25 mph speed limit, per VTL §1242(9). The DOT makes it sound like they are merely incorporating the 15 mph e-scooter limit into city’s traffic rules and providing consistency for other e-mobility devices for which the speed limit was not specifically contemplated. But that’s just not true – they are overriding established state law for e-bikes.

  This rule seems rushed, sloppily and inadequately rationalized, and is probably illegal.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 12:34pm

• Shoshanna W

  15 mph limit for citibikes will not solve any problems!! There needs to be separate lanes or enforcement of delivery/throttle only e-bikes in bike lanes. Removing protected lanes and decreasing speed limits for citibikes without them lowering prices accordingly only increases profits and not biker safety!

  Comment added June 21, 2025 2:59pm

• John Bowler

  i e-bike frequently for my daily commute between boerum hill and WTC, across the brooklyn bridge. i prefer a higher max speed for 1) the perfectly straight 1-mile separated bike lane on the brooklyn bridge, with no conflict with cars or pedestrians, and 2) avenues in manhattan where i have a better changes of riding the 15mph “green wave” if my max speed is higher.

  if DOT decides to limit e-bikes to 15mph on city streets for pedestrian safety, please consider geofencing different areas to have different speed limits. e.g. bridges with separated bike lines could be 18mph.

  an example of geofencing is london, where lime bikes are mostly limited to 25 km/h, except for some areas of the city where riders are automatically limited to a lower speed, i assume based on gps-tracking the bike or the rider’s phone.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 3:46pm

• Matt Bahr

  This is such an absurd proposal. Bikes already have speed limits on New York City streets: they’re the posted speed limits of all vehicles.

  Drivers will be forced to sit behind cyclists going 15 in a 25!

  Why would we set a global speed limit lower than the road limit? The best thing for our city is as easy as enforcing the speed limits already posted!

  There’s absolutely no safety concern for cyclists going the posted speed limits, any more than there are for cars doing the same. On 15 mph streets e bikes should go 15mph. On 35 mph they should be allowed to hit 35.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 4:12pm

• Roman Rekhler

  I have used citibike ebikes for almost 2 years. They have been a huge boon on my time spent outside, my time exploring all sorts of places in the city and brooklyn with far greater ease because of how easy and quick it was to get around. I can understand capping 3rd party company bikes to 20 or 18, but to make citibike cap their already extremely heavy bikes to 15 makes for a very sad experience. It’s also more dangerous; very often there are cars parks in the bike lanes, or you need to pass someone. Before, at 18, the bike was very often going at a speed closer to what the cars were doing and such exiting the bike lane to go around someone or something was safer : not, these 3 mph slower relative to the road, is actually 3mph larger differential with the cars.

  18 is already slow enough. If you want to make things safer, then a much better target would be ticketing people for blocking bike lanes, ticketing bikers who are on the sidewalk dangerously, ticketing those who are on their phones while riding..etc.

  I hope this change gets reverted asap. I thought my bike was broken yesterday. I literally took an citibike ebike home from 28th st because I knew it was going to be faster than a train – but instead it was slower due to the speed reduction. So i thought i just got unlucky with a broken bike, but my morning commute today also felt so unbearably slow. I always maximize caution and safety when I ride, so I feel like I’m being punished.

  The worst part is that once you get to 15, either because of how heavy the bikes are, or the system itself, it feels like it’s incredibly difficult to even pedal to go any faster at all. It just feels like the bike is purposely slowing you down. 🙁

  Comment added June 21, 2025 5:04pm

• Antonio Martin

  This speed limit is silly, because it does not apply to the delivery drivers who often go the wrong way and own their own bikes. This rule only harms normal citibike riders.

  Comment added June 21, 2025 6:34pm

• Jordan Armstrong

  The proposed rule will make Citibike uneconomical for New Yorkers to commute on bike paths from borough to borough, instead of focusing on the actual problem of delivery privately owned e bikes

  Comment added June 22, 2025 4:18pm

• Rebecca W.

  This is such a shameful thing for the city to be focusing on. It is CARS that kill pedestrians. Please, please, please focus on increasing micromobility, protecting bikers, and regulating CAR drivers.

  Comment added June 22, 2025 6:49pm

• Daniel Bersohn

  The proposed rule has no rational basis when reviewing what it does not regulate.

  Limiting vehicle speed based on kinetic energy risks requires a determination of a safe balance of kinetic energy and collision risk. Such a determination has not been made or proposed. This rule regulates speed primarily based on fuel and vehicle type and does not address kinetic energy. For example, trucks have much more kinetic energy at 25 mph than an e bike at 15 mph but are simply ignored by the rule. For example a 150lb person on a 15 lb bike at 16.5 mph is the exact same kinetic energy of a 135lb person on a 50lb e-bike with 15lbs of food at 15mph. A Toyota Prius at 25 mph has 45x the kinetic energy of either of the bike examples yet faces no 15mph limit. A 25 cubic yard garbage truck traveling at 34 mph, just below the speed at which a $50 automatic speeding ticket would be issued, has nearly 1,700 times the kinetic energy of the bicycle yet faces no restrictions.

  The risks to pedestrians associated with kinetic energy are not effectively managed by this regulation. Instead this regulation will drive enforcement against potentially disfavored groups and disincentivize a safer and more space efficient way of utilizing space between buildings on opposing blocks to move people and goods compared to four wheeled motor vehicles.

  The proposed rule is likely a violation of US EPCA because it regulates differentially based on energy source/fuel: only electric vehicles are impacted.

  I second all arguments published with attribution to commenter Jehiah Czebotar prior to submission of my comment.

  Comment added June 23, 2025 10:58am

• Daniel Kim

  The scapegoating of NYC bike riders must stop. Get the NYPD to enforce traffic laws – fix the real culprits of our dangerous roads!

  Comment added June 23, 2025 1:43pm

• Dylan Alberts

  Citi Bikes are not the problem in this city. Delivery eBikes are. Regulate the eBikes, which go much faster that Citi Bikes do today.

  Comment added June 23, 2025 6:20pm

• Ben B

  This new rule change is a slap in the face of those working toward a safer, cleaner, and less congested NYC. Cars cause significantly more traffic incidents, and have no such restrictions.

  Enforce existing rules around riding on sidewalks, or in the wrong direction (if you need to go the wrong way, you can walk your bike), and other dangerous behaviors. Do not limit speeds, continuing to degrade the ability to bike around the city.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 9:07am

• Cael

  This policy feels shortsighted and disproportionately burdens E Bike users without meaningfully addressing the core safety issues. By targeting e-bike speed limits, the city is relying on a blanket solution that fails to distinguish between responsible riders and the actual sources of danger: red-light violations, reckless operation, and underage or untrained riders using e-bikes.

  Enforcement of speed via throttling Citi Bikes places the responsibility on a large group of users who are already following the rules, while tasking NYPD an already overextended force, with managing bike speeds instead of focusing on dangerous behavior. This isn’t a scalable or strategic fix.

  Meanwhile, this change actively devalues the utility of Citi Bikes. Reduced speed means longer commutes, more red light stops, and diminished efficiency. All while prices were raised earlier this year. For many New Yorkers, this makes E Bikes a less viable transit option, especially compared to unregulated alternatives.

  If the true goal is safer streets, the solution lies in targeted enforcement of traffic laws and better regulation of privately owned e-bikes, not blanket throttling of a public mobility service that has otherwise helped reduce car dependency.

  Let’s come together and fix this with a real solution and stop incentivizing driving in the city.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 9:16am

• Gabriel Hoffman

  Dear NYC Department of Transportation,

  As a frequent Citi Bike user and strong advocate of sustainable, accessible transportation in New York City, I’m writing to express my opposition to the recent reduction of the e-bike speed limit from 18 mph to 15 mph.

  This change has had a noticeably negative impact on the rider experience, particularly for those who use Citi Bikes for daily commuting or errands. Citi Bike e-bikes are considerably heavier than standard bicycles, and the electric assist is a critical factor in making these bikes a practical transportation alternative. The reduced speed severely undermines this utility:

  Efficiency is compromised: Cutting the assist speed by 3 mph may seem minor on paper, but in practice it adds several minutes to even modest trips, cumulatively degrading the value proposition of the system.

  Rider fatigue and equity concerns: For smaller or older riders, or anyone with limited physical ability, pedaling a heavy e-bike at low speeds becomes an unreasonable burden—especially compared to privately owned e-bikes that remain unregulated at higher speeds.

  Safety concerns: Riders now spend more time in intersections and alongside traffic. Higher assist speeds enable safer and more confident navigation through the city.

  The original 20 mph assist cap (before the reduction to 18, and now 15 mph) was far more in line with real-world transportation needs. Lowering it further sends the wrong message about New York’s commitment to alternative, human-scale mobility solutions.

  I strongly urge the DOT to reverse this decision and restore the previous 18 mph limit—if not return to the original 20 mph setting. Let’s prioritize riders’ real experiences and keep Citi Bike a compelling alternative to car travel in our city.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 9:47am

• Ariyan Rejaee

  The proposed 15 mph speed limit for e bikes is not reasonable, as anyone with a moderate amount of fitness can operate a traditional bike at speeds in excess of 15 mph. Additionally, this now places cyclists in more risk when sharing roads with cars, who routinely pass by at over double the speed with inches of margin. Bikes will be unable to keep up with traffic and there is not extensive enough bike infrastructure to support this. Furthermore, the selective enforcement of road laws and discriminatory targeting practices must be stopped.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 10:23am

• David Hodgson

  Slowing Citibike e-bikes generally is the wrong solution. You know how few people are injured by bikes compared to cars and trucks. Slowing my commute by deliberately limiting speeds is a significant problem for me. I will either buy an e-bike or motorcycle.

  Instead please consider more bike lanes and less on street parking.

  You could improve enforcement against recklessness but end the bs tickets at stop signs and lights that hurt no one.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 10:38am

• Sagar Vemuri

  This has a hugely negative impact on New Yorkers who rely on e-mobility devices to get around.

  It also doubles the speed that cars pass you on the road. If cars are going the speed limit:

  The speed has already dropped from 20 MPH once to 18 MPH. If it drops again to 15 MPH, the following will occur:

  25-20 → 5 MPH passing speed
  25-18 → 7 MPH passing speed
  25-15 → 10 MPH passing speed (up 2x)

  Comment added June 24, 2025 11:08am

• Andrew Harvey

  The new citi bike limitation is terrifying being on streets with cars that are significantly larger, significantly less aware, and are going 10+ mph faster than we are now. Speed IS A SAFETY FEATURE. Please allow at least a 17 if not 20 mph speed limit.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 11:11am

• Elizabeth "Betty" Kay

  The proposed rule for a 15-mph speed limit for e-bikes, commercial e-bikes and e-scooters is a bad idea that I do not support. My concerns about having a speed limit that is lower than that for motor vehicles include:
  1. None of these e-devices have speedometers, so it is not clear how operators could self-enforce a speed limit unless the device has a speed limiter, something that NYS legislators have yet to require (the super speeder bill) for motor vehicles with a history of speeding.

  2. The NYPD has been issuing criminal summonses to cyclists for traffic offenses that cars and trucks get a traffic summons for. Thus, enforcement is already unduly harsh and unfair for those who use e-bikes, a more sustainable and cost-effective mobility option. Requiring a 15-mph maximum speed limit appears to be an attempt to appease those who oppose e-bikes, but would not have any real safety benefits. These devices are only involved in a tiny percent of crashes and it is common that the bicycle or e-scooter operator is the one who is injured, sometime even when the crash is with a pedestrian.

  3. The NYPD’s Quality of Life teams are only starting to address the issues that most concern residents such as micromobility devices being used on sidewalks, going the wrong way on streets, and running red lights, so managing micromobility devices (and hopefully motor vehicles) could finally be getting some attention. The NYPD’s stated focus on resolving problems and changing behaviors is an approach that has long been needed. Behavior changes that occur in response to these NYPD interventions –and data– should be assessed before deciding that e-devices warrant a lower speed limit than motor vehicles.

  4. If speed limits are enforced, motor vehicles may go up to 10 mph over a speed limit before they are considered speeding. Will cyclists get the same understanding and latitude?

  5. It seems unreasonable and unsafe to make cyclists go slower than the motor vehicles that they often need to travel amongst.

  6. I have questions about potential problems if (the wider) commercial cargo bikes operate in travel lanes at a top speed of 15-mph. The speed limit on roads below Canal Street is 20 mph, but drivers can get aggressive if they think that someone is causing them to go less than the speed limit when there is no congestion. My district’s historic street grid has many roads with only one traffic lane so legal passing on the roadbed is not possible if a commercial cargo bike operates in a travel lane.

  7. Having a lower speed limit for e-bikes is likely to slow the adoption of e-bikes to replace car trips, especially for commuting. Reducing vehicle miles traveled should be the DOT’s goal, so disincentives to adopting e-bikes would be counterproductive.

  No crash is acceptable, especially to those who are involved, but NYC’s streets and sidewalks are crowded so it’s unlikely that inter- and intra-modal conflicts can be eliminated. Improving street safety requires that motor vehicle, bicycle and e-scooter operators, as well as pedestrians learn to function on NYC’s multi-modal streets. Slower speeds and improved infrastructure are also important, but slowing some micromobility users while forcing them to operate amongst bigger, deadlier, and faster motor vehicles is not the answer.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 12:36pm

• Shivanshu Saha

  This really makes it unsafe for e-bikes to drive on roads where cars are going 2X faster, even if driving the minimum speed limit. Furthermore, I rely on e-bikes as my primary way of commute to and from the office. This makes it very hard to pedal uphill.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 12:46pm

• Adam Zeldin

  I do not support these restrictions on eBikes.

  eBikes are already regulated under existing NYC laws, here are the details: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ebikes-more-english.pdf. The most pressing problem isn’t the eBikes that follow the rules, it’s the illegal e-mopeds. Lumping them together is misleading and counterproductive.

  Instead of creating new limits, enforce the laws we already have. Penalize the bad actors (especially unregistered e-mopeds going 50+ MPH), not the responsible riders.

  And let’s talk about cars: they’re responsible for far more deaths and injuries every year. It took years to pass Sammy’s Law just to allow NYC to set a 20 MPH limit. We still can’t lower that beyond 20, even though cars are the most dangerous vehicles on our streets. That’s insane.

  If the city is serious about safety, the focus should be on looking at the evidence and reducing harm, and that means stronger enforcement for cars, not slower speeds for bikes.

  Let CitiBikes go 20 MPH. Don’t punish the wrong group.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 1:19pm

• Nick Tygesen

  With the failure to enforce existing laws, creating new rules will only create the opportunity for harassment of people who are simply trying to get around the city in a time and cost effective manner. Please properly enforce existing laws against running red lights, riding on sidewalks, riding the wrong way on streets, or riding on full electric powered bikes. This enforcement would be more well suited to solve the problem the city is trying to solve. Additionally, this new policy will create a safety hazard where bikes share the street with cars as they are not able to legally go the prevailing speed of traffic. This will result in unnecessary deaths which will be on the city’s hands. This policy is short sighted and I am opposed to it.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 1:55pm

• Jeury Sosa

  This would be a terrible decision and would put countless of New Yorkers who use a more sustainable and environmentally friendly mode of transportation. The vast majority of streets in New York City do not have designated bike lines forcing bikers to ride along side of traffic. How are bikers who are already vulnerable meant to keep up and have the ability to safely move out of harms way from the countless reckless and law breaking drivers this city possess.

  Comment added June 24, 2025 11:00pm

• Amber DaSilva

  Much of New York City lacks full, protected bike lanes. Without such protection, cyclists are forced to interact with motor vehicle traffic — an effort made far riskier by such a vast difference in speed limits. Differences in travel speed have been shown to increase the risk of accidents (https://www.ooida.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18-Differential-Speed-Limits-Make-Roads-Less-Safe.pdf), and that’s just between motor vehicles. Forcing cyclists, already exposed to the surrounding world, to travel at slower speeds than the cars that are allowed to whip by them only makes cycling more dangerous.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 1:00am

• CereBel Legal Intelligence

  Summary of public comments as of June 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM:

  1. Enforceability & Legal Authority

  Without license-plates, registration or a clear definition of “pedal-assist commercial bicycle,” the 15 mph cap is unenforceable.

  No penalties are specified for violators—making it “meaningless on paper.”

  State law (NY VTL 1642(26)) prohibits a citywide limit below 20 mph unless enacted as a local law—this rule isn’t one.

  2. Disproportionate Focus on E-bikes vs. Motor Vehicles

  E-bikes account for a tiny fraction of injuries compared to cars, trucks and mopeds, which routinely speed, run lights, double-park, etc., with little enforcement.

  Targeting the lowest-harm group while ignoring far more dangerous vehicles is unfair and “political theater.”

  3. Safety Risks from Differential Speeds

  Forcing e-bikes to go slower than unpowered bikes (and far slower than cars) increases speed differentials in mixed traffic—heightening crash risk.

  Slower maximum speeds may push riders onto sidewalks or into unsafe passing situations.

  Studies show greater speed differentials between vehicles lead to more severe collisions.

  4. Impact on Riders & Commuting Efficiency

  Longer trips: even a 3 mph reduction adds minutes to each ride, making CitiBikes less viable.

  Disproportionately burdens older, smaller or less-fit riders by increasing fatigue and commute time.

  May discourage sustainable transport, pushing people back into cars.

  5. Infrastructure & Enforcement Priorities

  Calls for more protected bike lanes, not blanket speed throttles.

  Suggest geofencing varied speed zones (e.g. higher limits on separated-lane bridges).

  Advocate redirecting NYPD resources to enforce existing laws (red-light running, sidewalk riding, reckless driving).

  Recommend adjusting delivery pay structures to incentivize safer riding.

  6. Accountability & Registration (Priscilla’s Law)

  Mandate visible ID markings, registration and plate numbers for all e-micromobility devices so violators can be held to account.

  Without this, delivery platforms and CitiBike operators face no real accountability.

  7. Alternative Policy Proposals

  Lower the citywide speed limit for all vehicles to 20 mph (via Sammy’s Law) instead of singling out e-bikes.

  Enforce existing traffic laws on cars, trucks and illegal mopeds rather than create new e-bike-specific rules.

  Target high-risk behaviors (e.g. reckless operation, underage riding) with focused enforcement and education.

  *1*. Regulatory Consistency & Broader Legal Concerns

  Regulating e-bikes based on energy source may violate federal energy law (EPCA).

  Rule language misstates state law (mixing up class 1/2 vs. class 3 e-bike speed caps), suggesting sloppy, rushed drafting.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 1:41pm

• Nathan Stanton

  The proposed rule is unnecessary and should be rescinded. ebikes are not dangerous and we should be encouraging their use not adding unnecessarily low speed limits. There should be a war on cars in NYC not bikes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 1:57pm

• Helmut Carter

  I do not e-bike, but I oppose the proposed change nonetheless. New Yorkers use bikes of all kinds because they’re a fast, healthy, efficient, and enjoyable way to get where we need to go. Unnecessarily (and capriciously) slowing down e-bikes would only serve to decrease adoption of bikes by everyday New Yorkers, at a time when the city’s bike modeshare is higher than ever. You don’t even have to bike to benefit from increased biking. Safer streets, cleaner air, and less congestion are benefits everyone can enjoy. Regardless of how people feel, the biggest threat in our streets are the cars. Until cars are universally speed-limited, I don’t see the sense in doing it to e-bikes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 2:03pm

• Gregory Chase

  If the purpose of the proposed rule is to apply consistent standards and to mitigate the safety risks posed by heavier vehicles—presumably due to the greater force of impact in collisions and increased braking distances—then limiting the rule to commercial pedal-assist bikes is both arbitrary and inconsistent.

  First, the added weight of the motor and battery in Citi Bike’s pedal-assist bicycles is marginal compared to the variation in total weight caused by differences in rider body mass and carried cargo, which can vary by well over 100 pounds. Second, if weight is the relevant safety factor, then private e-bikes and even some traditional bikes with heavy riders or loads may pose similar or greater risks than a lightly loaded commercial pedal-assist bike.

  A consistent and rational standard would consider total weight and actual operating conditions—not vehicle class or ownership status—as the basis for regulation on stated grounds. This rule fails that test and will likely be challenged in court as being arbitrary.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 2:04pm

• Tracy

  I’m an avid bike rider, nyc native, and parent. I use citibike to ride around the city all the time, multiple times a day. My kiddo rides her bike with us on weekends, along and over to the west side highway. Bike access has changed how people move around the city. More bikes and especially more e-bikes remove cars from our streets and cause less crowding on our subways, buses, etc. I will 100% take an ebike instead of a cab because it’s faster. Reducing the speed limit to 15mph makes this not always the case and punishes cyclists when cars can go 25-35MPH. If you want to slow down e-bikes, slow down cars. Cars kill people at high speed, it is very rare for somenoe to get hit with a bike a die. This is a bad move and really will send nyc backwards in our transit and bike forward approach.

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  Comment added June 25, 2025 2:28pm

• N. Anderson

  True leadership requires making tough decisions. DOT is caving to a public moral panic around e-bikes by considering this change, rather than relying on data and case studies of other cities (such as Paris). If the city were proposing a 15mph limit on motor vehicles as well – which cause the overwhelming majority of traffic deaths and injuries – then I might be in favor. As it stands I oppose this rule change.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 2:32pm

• Mohamed

  Thank you for safety

  Comment added June 25, 2025 2:53pm

• SAMUEL LEIKEN

  My e-bike has replaced my car, which I sold. I ride a great deal in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In the last five years I have NEVER had a problem with a speeding e-bike, so I believe this regulation is a waste of time. If you are truly concerned about the safety of e-bike riders, focus on ticketing and towing the countless cars and trucks who park or double park in the bike lanes forcing riders to swerve into traffic to get around the blockage. This is a real and ongoing danger to riders, cars, and pedestrians.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 3:36pm

• Leo Gallagher

  I am opposed to the speed limit for e bikes. We need more separated bike lanes from pedestrian traffic, not criminalization of those whose transportation method is actually the most sustainable. We need to embrace biking more to combat climate change

  Comment added June 25, 2025 3:49pm

• Sam Frommer

  I oppose this rule change.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 4:03pm

• Thomas Callahan

  I do not support this rule change to 15 mph. I use my e-scooter and Citi bike to get around the city, and this rule will make my life so much harder, it is unsafe especially when you are expected to be riding in car lanes in most of the city being able to not achieve speeds that cars can easily get to will create dangerous situations.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 4:51pm

• Maria Falgoust

  No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:13pm

• Matthew Malina

  Fines not crimes

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:17pm

• Dan Miller

  I use bikes to commute and to get around the city more generally, and a 15-mph limit is deeply ridiculous and impractical. The 15-mph cap on Citibikes has already made me less safe, as I have to slowly share streets with cars that have a limit of 25mph (and can exceed that limit by 11mph without punishment from speed cameras). I urge DoT to reject this pointless and harmful rule.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:18pm

• Justin Randel

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:19pm

• Elido De leon

  This is rhe Democratic party. They do whatever they want.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:20pm

• Kenneth Lay

  I am completely opposed to efforts to reduce e-bike speed limits, unless such efforts are accompanied by a citywide reduction in car and truck speed limits as well. Over 99.9% of pedestrian injuries in NYC this year have been caused by cars and trucks – it is outrageous that DOT would declare 20lb e-bikes more of a threat than 4000lb cars going at least 10mph faster, and then act to reduce e-bike speed limits while doing nothing about motor vehicles.

  This rule is obviously not not safety. A five year old could see that. It is an effort by this administration to discriminate against those who choose to bike to get around.

  Again, I support a citywide reduction in e-bike speed limits only if such a rule is accompanied by a similar citywide reduction in car speed limits (to 20 mph or below). Otherwise, a hard no to this absurdly discriminatory rule.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:20pm

• Ross Levin

  I am writing to oppose the 15 mph limit on e-bikes. Safety on our streets comes from better street design that gives bikes and e-bikes a separate space, removed from both pedestrians and cars. This speed limit will not make people or streets safer.

  This speed limit hurts delivery workers, who are under immense pressure to make quick deliveries. It also hurts commuters, who use e-bikes to go farther distances faster than they could on a regular bike. I regularly commute by e-bike, and I see hundreds of people safely using e-bikes, even at speeds faster than 15 mph.

  Most pedestrian injuries in New York come from cars. I understand the concern about e-bikes, because they are new and unfamiliar, but we should prioritize making streets safer from cars, rather than this ineffective attempt at limiting e-bikes. We should instead be encouraging environmentally friendly transit options like e-bikes. This speed limit will do nothing to make streets safer, but it will make life more difficult for working people, including commuters and delivery workers.

  Please reject this proposed speed limit on e-bikes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:21pm

• Marc Weinstein

  I’m an avid NYC biker, and do think 15mph is fast enough considering the instant acceleration e-bikes and scooter attain. License and enforcement is necessary.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:22pm

• Pierce Wezenaar

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:22pm

• anthony Nicolau

  Biking is not a crime. I do not support this rule change to 15 mph No special speed limit for bikes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:23pm

• Janet Liff

  Dear DOT, proposing different speeds for bikes and cars in the roadway is beyond ridiculous and basically nonsensical. Why should a driver be allowed to go 35 mph while a bike, in the same space, can only go 15? It’s just bazaar, not to say dangerous for the person on a bike. If you want to lower speeds in the roadway, set a 20 mph speed limit for everyone. Thank you,

  Sincerely,
  Janet Liff

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:25pm

• Thomas T

  I oppose this change.

  The vast majority of injuries and deaths are caused by cars and trucks. The city should focus resources on enforcing existing traffic laws.

  As a Brooklyn-based cyclist and pedestrian, on a daily basis I see vehicles run red lights, block intersections, double park, fail to yield when turning through crosswalks, etc.

  We do need to improve the safety of delivery bikes, but the enforcement needs to be against the delivery apps that are forcing their cyclists to meet unreasonable delivery times due to low pay. We need the city to meet the existing commitments for more bike lanes so that cyclists don’t use the sidewalk or go the wrong way.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:25pm

• Eric Gabriel Lehman

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:27pm

• LOIC VIENNE

  I strongly oppose this legislation. I am an avid biker in NYC – both Citibike and regular bike and setting this limit seems to be the wrong priority. There so many more car/truck accident and fatalities all around NYC that the priority should be to reducing car speed; and increasing bike lanes. While I agree some e-bikes (especially delivery) seems to be way over that speed limit and can be dangerous (for pedestrian and other bike lane users). I think 20mph is a reasonable limit. Thank you

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:27pm

• Evan Marks

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:30pm

• Maria Boustead

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, yet someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck can go 25 mph. Shouldn’t it be the other way around, since cars and trucks can do so much more damage and are responsible for the majority of the injuries and deaths on our street?

  I started riding an e-bike in 2021 when I was going through treatment for breast cancer. It helped me get the exercise I needed to stay strong, and being able to bike through the city’s parks made me feel joy at a particularly difficult time.

  I currently commute from Washington Heights to Midtown and back on my e-bike. I’m so thankful for the steps the city has made to make it safer, and thus more enjoyable, to bike in the city.

  This proposed rule goes in the other direction. It feels simply mean-spirited, intended to discourage people from cycling, thus making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike.

  Say NO to unfair bike laws and NO to special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:31pm

• David Young

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:31pm

• Gregory V Esteve

  I oppose the rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling; we do need the City to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Thank you!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:31pm

• Deborah Wolk

  why can cars go any speed (20, 25 … but usually more like 30mph) and bikes will have to have a limit. I’m sure this is a way for police to stop immigrants and people of color and slam them with criminal charges?

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:31pm

• Andrew Moore

  I strongly oppose the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk, and which the Adams administration has managed to curtail EVEN FURTHER.

  We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:33pm

• Alexander Apter

  This is a ridiculous and reactionary law that ignores NYPDs data on where the risk to pedestrians lies: 99.6% of all pedestrian injuries are from from cars and trucks—not bikes.

  Focus attention and resources on the real issues. If you want to limit all vehicles to 15mph and include bikes, fine by me!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:33pm

• Mark Poons

  Why are E bikes being slowed down when cars and trucks are not? Many more people are injured by automobiles then bikes. Bikes are also beter for the environment and people’s health and well being. Slow down cars and truck and leave bicycles alone. Thank you.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:34pm

• Tammy Meltzer

  I am strongly support to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. All moving vehicles that travel at higher speeds should not be allowed on our sidewalks. They should be in the road and follow the regular traffic rules.

  There is no current way to track bicycle and people crashes or interactions and the NYPD often will not take a report even if the pedestrian is injured. This is a step towards being able to apply traffic rules to all.

  At the same time, we want to encourage biking, which research shows makes streets more active and can enhance safety for all users. It is concerning how the rules will be applied versus speeding tickets for cars. However, this can be planned and fixed with registration of all E-bikes and rule making.

  Again I support this measure and hope it will be a way to start to reduce the speed limits for all types of vehicles on the road under Sammy’s Law.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:34pm

• Megan Taylor

  I strongly oppose the proposed rule to impose a 15 MPH speed limit on e-bikes, e-scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles.

  This rule unfairly targets working-class New Yorkers—particularly delivery workers, immigrants, and commuters—who rely on these vehicles every day. E-bikes are a climate-friendly, congestion-reducing form of transportation, yet this rule treats their riders more harshly than drivers of multi-ton SUVs who regularly exceed 30 MPH citywide.

  The rule is dangerous, not because it slows bikes down, but because it opens the door to over-policing and criminalization. Delivery workers—who already face harassment, injury, and theft—could now be stopped, fined, arrested, or worse, for exceeding a speed most e-bikes are built to reach safely. Many of these workers are immigrants, meaning they risk deportation for a so-called “crime” that wouldn’t apply to car drivers going nearly twice as fast.

  This is not a meaningful street safety policy. It’s a distraction. The data is clear: Cars and trucks are the leading cause of injury and death on New York City streets. In 2023, motor vehicles killed over 100 pedestrians. E-bikes accounted for a tiny fraction of crashes and an even smaller share of fatalities.

  If the City truly wants to protect lives and make streets safer, it should:

  Pass Sammy’s Law and reduce the citywide speed limit to 20 MPH

  Expand protected bike lanes and create safe infrastructure for micromobility

  Regulate delivery apps and support training for workers

  Invest in education, not criminalization

  Do not move forward with this regressive, unjust, and ineffective rule. We need policies that support a fair, safe, and sustainable transportation future—not ones that punish people for riding bikes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:39pm

• Daniel Boer

  Anyone who has ever ridden a bike or motorcycle – or piloted any other type of vulnerable vehicle – knows that SPEED DIFFERENTIAL is one of the most dangerous components of sharing the road with motor vehicles. Capping e-Bikes at this speed effectively makes the traffic around them more dangerous, and disproportionately punishes a very specific and deliberate community of delivery riders while failing to make bike lanes any safer for those pedaling on their own.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:40pm

• Paul Henri Doble

  Limiting the speed of ebikes in the name of safety is preposterous. Everyone going slower can make the city safer. But as any city planner worth their degree will tell you, infrastructure is what really drives safety, not fines. All this new law will do is disproportionately police low income workers of color while the rich get to incur literally hundreds of speeding tickets a year driving far deadlier cars. Shame on Commissioner Tisch for this blantantly classist and racist campaign. It’s just another distraction from the real problem under her watch: the bloated budget and continuing abuse of power by the NYPD.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:40pm

• Michael Blaise Backer

  I’m a New Yorker, for 25 years now, officially half of my life. I’m mostly a pedestrian. But I’m also a driver, a cyclist, a Citi-biker, an E-biker, and a stroller pusher.

  I completely understand where this rule and the sentiment behind it is coming from. I’ve had my own occasional frustration with cyclists and e-bikers when being a pedestrian or stroller pusher, and empathize with the reflexive push to regulate in a punitive manner. But the reality is that our city’s infrastructure has not kept up with the need around our changing mobility patterns and preferred modes of transportation. It needs to, and quickly. Because placing non-sensible, punitive, inequitable, and incredibly difficult to enforce speed limits on those riding any form of bicycle of scooter is not the answer. Building the necessary infrastructure to help New Yorkers remain safe whatever mode of transportation they use should be the real priority.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:40pm

• Ehren Gresehover

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:41pm

• Scott St. Marie

  This is a ridiculous proposal, very few ebikes have speeds compatible with the 15 mph limit–so it’s effectively a ban on ebikes. Instead, how about starting to issue criminal summonses for running red lights? That might actually save some lives, while generating $$ for the City.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:41pm

• Karl Allen

  Biking is not a crime! Cars and reckless drivers are the real scourge on our streets. The attack on e-bikes and other cyclists is thinly veiled racism and fear-mongering by a Mayor in the pocket of Tr*mp. He’s willing to throw the most vulnerable amongst his constituents under the bus to win an election he knows he’s going to lose. This speed limit law is a sham and so are the criminal summonses being issued

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:41pm

• Jamilah Elder

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:42pm

• John Wyeth

  The decision of Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Tisch to issue criminal summonses to cyclists for minor infractions – as opposed to traffic tickets – is a bizarre double standard for bikes versus motor vehicles, which are responsible for exponentially more pedestrian fatalities than bikes. Especially at this incredibly dangerous moment of aggressive (and often extra-judicial) immigration enforcement, this is an escalation NYC cannot afford. New Yorkers should be encouraged to utilize the city’s bike lanes, especially now that streets are less congested with motor vehicles and there are many bike lanes available.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:43pm

• Stephan Cotton

  As someone who is out on the street a lot I can attest to the fact that e-bikes are more dangerous than cars in Manhattan. Crossing Second Avenue’s bike lane is one of the most dangerous things a pedestrian can do.

  And e-bikes on sidewalks is equally dangerous.

  Please continue proposing and enforcing laws and regulations protecting us from these renegade cyclists.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:44pm

• Rebecca Dawn Neckritz

  No unfair bike laws! Adam’s half baked idea would expose delivery workers, commuters, and anyone who bikes to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation — all for simply riding a bike.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:44pm

• George Hagstrom

  Dear DOT,

  I am writing to express strong opposition to the proposed 15mph e-bike speed limit. I use every type of transportation to get around the city, including walking, driving, cycling, and riding the subways and busses. The rule to limit e-bikes to 15 mph doesn’t make sense in the context of a city where much heavier and statistically much more dangerous vehicles travel at much higher speeds. According to the data, e-bikes and bicycles in general are approximately 100 times safer than motor vehicles, and cause very few injuries and fatalities in the city. Despite this fact, there has been an illogical focus and obsession with these vehicles, probably because they are relatively new, because they are used by immigrants who have become a top target of the administration, and because politicians and commentators confuse categories, mixing up e-bikes with mopeds and electric motorcycles which are capable of substantially higher speeds.

  A significant challenge that cyclists face when navigating the city by bike is the speed differential between bicycles and motor vehicles, the later of which often exceed the 25 or 30 mph speed limit. Although the city is developing a strong network of bike lanes which enable cyclists to avoid intermingling with cars, this network is still limited in extent to only a minority of the city. Elsewhere in the city we have to ride in traffic. The arrival of the white e-citibikes, significantly enhanced safety on regular streets (at least in my perspective as both a user and a driver). Although the speed difference may seem slight in absolute terms, in relative terms they can reduce a 10mph speed differential in half or more. This enables cyclists to keep up with traffic, reducing the number of passes, minimizing road rage and driver frustration which can become dangerous to cyclists and drivers alike.

  Limiting the speed to 15mph (which is slower than than some people can jog a mile, and much slower than the speed that “exercise” cyclists generally ride) seems like an overreach that makes transportation in the city worse in every way. I can’t help but think that this rule has been partially put in place to help increase arrests of delivery cyclists. This isn’t a way to run a transportation system. It is interesting to me that we never discuss limiting the speed of motor vehicles, which are substantially more deadly, but instead talk about it for bicycles. I would instead propose requiring cyclists to obey whatever the speed limit is for motor vehicles on local roads.

  Thank you,
  Sincerely,
  George Hagstrom

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:46pm

• Carol Cotton

  The more you regulate e-bikes, the safer pedestrians and rest of NY will be

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:48pm

• Ryan Garrett

  Are you limiting cars to 15 mph? Why not? Cars kill, bikes do not.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:49pm

• Joe Bway

  Since many cyclists do not act responsibly or respectfully, sadly rules and laws like this one are necessary to prevent further injuries of children, seniors, those with visual and physical impairments or limitations, and other pedestrians, caused by speeding ebikes and escooters. It would be beneficial if funding were also provided for enforcement of this and other pedestrian-protection rules and laws.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:49pm

• james nyoraku schlefer

  Yes SOME e-bike users do ride dangerously and they should be stopped. BUT a blanket 15-mile/hour rule is a bad idea. And turning ordinary bike riders into criminals for minor traffic infractions is a dumb idea. There is very little car violation enforcement. Bikes are easier to catch. Is that why this is happening? It’s backwards. Unsafe drivers can cause death and major physical damage. Not so the occasional bad bicyclist.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:50pm

• R Micken

  Speeding should be a traffic violation rather than a criminal conviction. There are too many excuses to arrest vulnerable people now- many who deliver on e-bikes. It’s an over-reaction and will likely cause harm and expense. Enforcing criminal penalties for cars harming pedestrians and people on bikes would be a more sane approach. I’m for banning e-bikes from the city altogether.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:54pm

• Hunter Newman

  i really dislike this speed limit for e-bikes and want it back the way it was immediately please. it now costs more to get around to places where public transit is annoying (astoria to bushwick in my case).

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:56pm

• Michael Replogle

  I am former Deputy Commissioner for Policy, New York City Department of Transportation, 2015-21. I strongly oppose the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is an ill-considered idea to improve safety which will be counterproductive. It is also likely to put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause very few crashes and almost no fatalities. On the other hand, people in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket. While speed cameras and other Vision Zero initiatives I helped NYC advance as Deputy Transportation Commissioner have improved traffic safety, this proposed 15-mph bike speed limit rule is likely to undermine cycling and safety.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for every vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  As a former NYC DOT official charged with traffic safety improvements, I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:56pm

• W Chan

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical, inequitable and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities.

  People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 5:57pm

• Penny Rosen

  I think there should be a law with speed limits – 15 mph for ebikes. They are dangerous. I have fear of riding my bike or crossing the street. Fears I’ve never had before.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:01pm

• Summit Hainey

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:03pm

• Gary Venter

  Riders on good bikes easily go 20 mph or faster. Citibike e-bikes already have an internal max of about 23 mph and you have to work pretty hard to get to it. On the Hudson River Greenway these bibes are routinely passed by good bikers on their skinny bikes. A speed limit of 25 mph for all bikers might make sense.
  There is a real problem with the pure electric bikes that don’t require pedaling. They are more like motorcycles and can be a real danger. The 25 mph speed limit would help for those.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:03pm

• Erik Olsen

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:07pm

• Jeffrey Dworkin

  Before NYC creates a new law to restrict all e-bikes to 15mph, we first need to make a clear distinction between the two main types of e-bikes:

  Throttle-Operated E-Bikes – These can be powered without pedaling and are often used more like lightweight scooters.

  Pedal-Assist E-Bikes (Pedelecs) – These require the rider to pedal to engage the motor, resulting in a more controlled, human-powered riding experience.

  Treating all e-bikes the same overlooks important differences in how they function, how fast they accelerate, and how much control the rider has.

  NYC has one of the best bike infrastructure networks in the United States, and that’s largely because more New Yorkers are commuting by bike now than ever before. E-bikes have played a critical role in expanding access to cycling for more people — including delivery workers, seniors, and daily commuters — making biking a practical, eco-friendly transportation option.

  Moreover, it’s important to recognize that many road cyclists on racing-specific bikes can easily exceed 20mph. These bikes are lightweight, built for speed, and often used on the same bike lanes and paths as e-bikes. Enforcing a blanket 15mph limit only on e-bikes — while road cyclists continue to travel faster — would create inconsistencies and raise questions about fairness and enforceability.

  Instead of a flat 15mph speed cap, NYC should adopt a more nuanced approach:

  Context-based speed limits (e.g., 15mph on shared-use paths and congested areas, higher limits on protected bike lanes and open roads).

  Clear signage and targeted enforcement in high-risk zones.

  Education campaigns to promote safe riding and clarify the differences between e-bike types.

  Classification stickers or lightweight registration to aid enforcement and data collection.

  A smart, balanced policy will promote safety while supporting the growth of cycling in NYC — not hinder it.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:08pm

• Elizabeth A Horwitz

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:08pm

• Joe Westcott

  This new speed limit is a ludicrously bad idea. Why can cars and trucks go nearly the double the speed and kill people because they weigh tons, while some guy on an ebike is treated like a menace and capped at a speed that is unsafe for avoiding reckless drivers? This things reeks of political pandering and it’s a completely unsafe, completely bad idea for New Yorkers who just want to live their life and ride a bicycle.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:12pm

• felix sheng

  These rules make no sense, why are we spending time criminalizing bicycles – creating whole new criminal laws to make it harder to cycle. Cars routinely speed, run lights, speed through intersections, double park causing dangerous traffic flows and hit and kill people daily. Yet, no new laws or attempts to criminalize currently illegal car activity are up for discussion. We should focus our attention on things that will actually make NYC safer to be in and improve quality of life.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:13pm

• Tyler Miller

  There are 15,000 pedestrians struck by vehicles every year in NYC.
  There are <250 pedestrians struck by ebikes each year in NYC.

  The force of being struck by a car vs an ebike traveling at 30mph is 100x different. If we want to reduce traffic injuries, we should focus on cars, not ebikes.

  Biking is a criticial way for new yorkers to navigate the city.

  It is the cheapest way for folks to travel and requires the city the least amount of work to maintain, freeing the budget from expanding middle transit options and focus on important transit infra like the subway.

  our goal should be to maximize the amount of people in the city biking for pleasure, work, transportation, anything.

  any laws that limit biking speeds will reduce the mobility of citizens in the city.

  We should pursue different legislation: Instead of setting speed limits we should invest in bike-only lanes to create room for more bikers.

  if we are worried about speeding in the city we should invest in fully automated speed ticketing with increasing fines for repeat offenders, but this should apply to ALL vehicles.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:22pm

• James

  This doesn’t make sense. There isn’t a 15mph limit on cars which are SO much more dangerous. I am opposed to this measure.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:28pm

• Dave Johnson

  There is no reason to put a speed limit on any type of bike. The danger on the streets is coming from six-ton vehicles that are allowed to terrorize pedestrians. Please get the priotories straight. Bikes are not the problem.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:30pm

• jon glazer

  I’m against the proposed new 15mph speed limit. I wish the current restrictions were simply enforced. There are all types of electric and gas 2 wheeled (sometimes even just one wheel) that we already have laws about that are not enforced in any way. I see these electric and gas dirt bikes zooming around and NYC has clear laws that regulate their use but they are rarely enforced. Please just enforce the rules that already exist.

  Thank you

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:32pm

• Sofia Barandiaran

  I am writing to urge you to reject the proposed rule introducing a 15-mph speed limit for e-bikes, which would make our streets more dangerous and confusing for all road users. We have speed limits for a reason: these are the speeds that DOT has determined to be safe for each street or road in the city. These speed limits should apply equally to all road users. To arbitrarily impose a lower speed limit for e-micromobility is dangerous and unprecedented. Under the proposed rule, e-bikers will be forced to ride slower than cars on a given road, which will encourage unsafe passing, cause frustration and road rage among drivers, and ultimately lead to more crashes, injuries, and deaths.

  If this rule is imposed, e-bikers will be unjustly confused and misled by posted speed limit signs of 20 or 25 mph. To give somebody a fine–or worse, a court summons, as the City now arbitrarily prefers to do–for simply following posted road signs is unjust, ridiculous, and irresponsible.

  To add insult to injury, this rule will do nothing to address the actual concerns that many New Yorkers have about e-bikes: sidewalk riding, wrong-way riding, failure to yield to pedestrians, fire hazards from illegal batteries, etc. All of these behaviors are already illegal – the city must create regulations, practices, and incentives to equitably increase compliance with these laws.

  The unintended consequence of this rule will ultimately be to incentivize more e-bikers to switch to gas mopeds, which I can assure you no one on either side of this debate wants.

  This proposed rule betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of traffic safety and a total disregard for fairness or logic. If the City truly wishes to make streets safer by slowing down vehicles, it should lower the citywide speed limit for all vehicles and/or expand Neighborhood Slow Zones.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 6:39pm

• Brian C. Stevens

  This rule change would not make any sense if it was implemented throughout NYC on all roads. In a share the road situation, it would be very dangerous for cyclists to be restricted to lower speeds than automobiles and trucks and would likely lead to an increase in crashes. It might make sense to restrict the speed of cyclists in protected bike lanes only as they are narrower and higher speeds may pose more of a risk. It’s obvious to say that the real risk has always been motor vehicles and trucks in terms of pedestrian and cyclist safety. This rule change proposal seems to be based on raw politics and not statistical evidence. Other steps can be taken to address issues with e bikes, such as better enforcement of existing laws restricting throttle bikes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:04pm

• Joseph W Russo

  Why on earth would we limit bikes to 15 miles an hour when cars are travelling at twice that speed and far more dangerous. Instead of harmful regulation, let’s focus on enforcing safe driving rules on cars, trucks, and busses to keep our streets safer

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:06pm

• Neil Bleifeld

  What’s with the unfair, unequal targeting of bikers?

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:14pm

• William O Folchi

  I am a 73 year old male who is an avid bike rider. I strongly support a speed limit on e bikes and the imposition of penalties on violators.

  I have biked in the city for over 65 years and the e-bikes and moped delivery drivers have been the extremely dangerous and disruptive the last few years.

  They do not obey traffic signals, ride on sidewalks, fail to follow bike etiquette and travel had high speeds on bike lanes.

  The protected bike lane on 2nd Avenue is of no use to a recreational cyclist. It is dominated by the likes of Door Dash drivers who refuse to ovbey simple rules of the lane.

  The city must take a strong stand and return the bike lanes to cyclists, not ebije and moored delivery drivers!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:20pm

• Frances

  It shouldn’t be against the law to an e-bike or any bike for that matter.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:20pm

• Amy

  Riding a bike of any kind isn’t a.crime. Nor should it become one.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:21pm

• Agassi N

  We have different groups fighting for their agenda. More powerful group often wins. This doesn’t at all mean improvements are made for general public. We need to design systems while considering various interests and outcomes, and deepdive into best practices from other cities. Driving has to get better, not slower. Increase skill requirement for passing driving test. Stop charging bikers hundreds of dollars-most can’t afford it, and they pose lesser danger.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:36pm

• Laura Mead

  This proposed rule is too absurd to be proposed in good faith. This illogical policy seems more like a Trump-appeasing maneuver to arrest undocumented deliveristas than a thoughtful and data-driven rule. Cars are the mode of transportation most likely to kill and injure pedestrians and bikers, and this rule continues to demonize a less politically powerful contingent of New Yorkers (bikers) rather than addressing the real dangers on our streets.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 7:51pm

• Eric Baker

  As a parent who e-bikes with young children every day, I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 8:03pm

• Laura Fishman

  It doesn’t make sense to have a lower speed limit for e-bikes than for automobiles. E-bikes may not ride on the sidewalk, they must ride in the road with cars. It is not safe to force them to go a different speed than cars. It’s important to allow them to travel at the speed of traffic. Additionally multi-ton vehicles are the much greater threat to public safety – why would we allow them to go faster than e-bikes? All traffic, bicycles and automobiles, should be required to obey a reduced speed limit of 20 mph while on surface streets within city limits. That would be a change I could get behind.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 8:16pm

• Jeremiah Glazer

  This is idiotic; a waste of time, money, and resources. Doesn’t the city have more important things to focus on? Modernizing public transit, affordable housing, cost of living, education, health care, immigration? This is going to deter people from riding their bikes which eases public transit and roadway congestion, and promotes health. You should be building e-bike lanes along with more bike lanes to ENCOURAGE MORE riding, not criminalizing riders.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 8:16pm

• Leslie H Hanson Sr

  This proposed law is grossly unfair to bike riders and should not be allowed to go forward.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 8:21pm

• Clair Weatherby

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 25 or 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 8:30pm

• Klaus Lessnau MD FCCP

  As a doctor with thousands of patients I do recommend walking and bicycling as treatment to stay healthy.

  I support a limit of 20 miles/hour for bicycles, and not 15, as is obvious for people who use their bicycle daily.

  More than 98% of all accidents are caused by cars and not with bicycles. Therefore we have to focus on cars and trucks and speed cameras and police enforcement. I have more than enough patients who had life-altering events with car accidents.

  I strongly support to restrict dangerous car movements. And I do support healthy bicycling up to 20 miles/hour.

  Respectfully,

  K. Lessnau MD FCCP
  SuperDoctor, Best doctor
  Lenox Hill Hospital

  Comment added June 25, 2025 8:50pm

• Nancy Lee

  A speed limit of 15 mph on a BICYCLE is completely unreasonable considering that drivers of cars are regularly speeding with no consequences, running past stop signs, and illegally parking wherever they want. The nuisance in this city are the poor drivers that pressure pedestrians and cyclists into dangerous conditions all for the sake of their own convenience. New York City could learn so much from the infrastructure of modernizing cities like Barcelona in creating livable spaces that are walkable and accessible because cars are limited. Cycling is one of the healthiest options for people and encourages a strong community. Speed restrictions on bicycles is unnecessary and asinine.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 9:12pm

• Lawrence C Vazac

  It’s not a war on bikes don’t want a criminal summons don’t break the traffic laws

  Comment added June 25, 2025 9:20pm

• Douglas Bradford Smith

  As a non-ebike rider in the city since the 1980s, I have to say that I would like ebikes to have a 15mph limit. Ebike riders especially delivery riders are too fast and often too reckless. They come up behind you and you don’t know they are there. I have had near collisions.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 9:53pm

• Monica Pascual

  As a pedestrian and cyclist I risk my life every day I am out on the streets of NYC, because drivers of motor vehicles constantly and recklessly disregard every traffic rule in the book. I have learned to expect drivers to NOT slow down on the curb, SPEED in order to run RED LIGHTS, advance their cars before their light changes and pedestrians are crossing the street, etc etc etc. I do NOT recall any instance in which I felt a bicycle or an e-bike could kill me, even when they’ve ride recklessly. A friend was hit by an e-bike while on her bike and was hurt but not seriously hurt. I know far too many people who have been seriously injured and killed by drivers of motor vehicles who disregarded traffic rules. If the mayor would seriously care about people’s safety he wouldn’t worry as much about bikes and e-bikes and would penalize instead drivers of motor vehicles

  Comment added June 25, 2025 9:55pm

• Yann Benetreau

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record.

  People on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  In addition, it is more dangerous for cyclists: the safest way to cycle when forced to ride in a lane shared with cars is to match the cars’ speed!

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 9:56pm

• V. Mahajan

  According to NYCDOT’s own data, in 2021, 123 people were struck by motor vehicles, while 2 were struck by bicycles. It is a mistake to limit the use of bicycles, by limiting their speed, discouraging their use compared to motor vehicles, when according to the data, they are much safer than cars, which continue to be able to operate at 40mph, when reducing the speed limit for motor vehicles directly reduces pedestrian fatalities by reducing the severity of crashes.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 10:01pm

• Tom Kurland

  As an initial matter, it is unfair and illogical to impose a speed limit–the violation of which can give rise to criminal liability–solely on e-bikes that does not apply to any other type of vehicle using the same roadway (or even any other type of bicycle).

  Indeed, a person pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t even have a speedometer can be arrested, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton SUV speeding along at 35 mph might not even get a traffic ticket.

  Moreover, it is downright DANGEROUS. I ride an e-assist Citi bike to work every day in bike lanes from the UES to Midtown. Since the speed limit was imposed on those bikes, it has become incredibly hard to safely avoid cars and other bikes (even regular non-assisted bikes) at intersections, where I can no longer get up enough speed to keep pace with traffic. All users of our streets should have the same speed limit.

  If the City is concerned about reckless driving or danger to pedestrians, it should crack down on speeding cars and trucks. It should also crack down on RAMPANT ILLEGAL PARKING by delivery trucks (especially Amazon and Fresh Direct with erect miniature distribution centers in turn-only lanes up and down the avenues in my neighborhood each day) which constricts thoroughfares and crowds more bikes, cars, and pedestrians into limited roadway space.

  As others have put it–and I agree–criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 10:32pm

• Eleanor Forman

  Don’t make special rules against bikes to criminalize cycling. I am disabled and ride a recumbent tricycle. I could never reach 15 MPH, but I will be affected because when you discourage cycling, you make it less safe for me. The more bikes, the safer we all are.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 10:35pm

• Shawn F.

  I am vehemently opposed to the rule limiting e-bikes to 15 mph speeds. The sole purpose of this rule is to destroy our neighbors lives by entangling them in the legal system. It has no root in safety because if safety were actually the concern, we would be regulating cars and trucks foremost since they cause significantly more injuries. In fact, this will make us less safe by discouraging biking–the more people who bike, the fewer people who will be driving cars, the fewer people who will be killed by cars. DOT should instead be making biking (and everyone else on the road/sidewalk) safer with dedicated bike infrastructure and reducing car speeds. And why, if we actually want to reduce biker speeds, are we not regulating the companies who force workers into pressurized deadlines in the first place? This rule is totally backward-thinking, we have other tools to use that don’t force people into the backlogged legal system.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 11:00pm

• DONA OROZOVA

  This new regulation disproportionately affects some of the lowest paid workers in the city – the bike delivery group. Riding at 15 miles/hr is comparable to a casual human powered bike rider. This will directly affect the pay these workers bring home and this is unfair. Alternatively cars are responsible for majority of accidents in which pedestrians are injured. Injuries caused by e-bikes are a very miniscule single digit percentage. Additionally statistics in recent year point that this percentage has been on the decline. My understanding is that curbing motor vehicles (cars) speeds will bring higher benefits in making our city safer.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 11:03pm

• Charles Todd

  Before you lower the e-bike speed limit to 15 MPH, please lower the car/truck/suv speed limit to 20 MPH on every street in the city (with the power granted by Sammy’s Law.) Cars can currently go 35 MPH (25 MPH speed limit plus 10 MPH grace) and not even trigger a ticket from a speed camera. They weigh thousands of pounds. They kill vastly more pedestrians (last year cars/trucks/suvs killed 113 pedestrians vs 1 pedestrian killed by an e-bike).

  Also, please provide a protected bike lane on every street in the city where you plan to lower the e-bike speed limit. Otherwise, you are forcing e-bike riders to ride in the road at a slower speed that will encourage dangerous passing by drivers.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 11:07pm

• Klaus Lessnau MD FCCP

  After many traffic accidents with death and life-altering events, mostly by cars (>98%), it will be appropriate to limit speeds to 20 miles per hour, for bicycles, pedal assist bicycles, e-bikes, cars, trucks and sanitation trucks (they are speeding).

  As a SuperDoctor, Best doctor and practicing critical care physician at Lenox Hill Hospital, I have to disseminate information.

  Thank you for your consideration.

  K. Lessnau MD FCCP

  Comment added June 25, 2025 11:14pm

• Gabriel

  I strongly oppose the proposal to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we should not criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  No special speed limits for cyclists and no police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 25, 2025 11:32pm

• Mark Forman

  As a rider in NYC for 46 years this rule is a type of discrimination aimed at all those who ride bicycles.Motorists are the ones causing the greatest damage to pedestrians yet the blames is being misdirected to cyclists. Issue criminal summonses to motorists who endanger all other road users with their 2 ton vehicles. Why is this discrimination happening. It is political theater. Stop issuing criminal summonses for riding a bicycle in NYC.

  Comment added June 25, 2025 11:42pm

• Alexander M Schwarz

  I am a NYC resident and strongly opposed to the proposed bike laws. NYC needs to focus on motor vehicle safety, lowering speed limits and increasing enforcement for motor vehicle drivers, while not restricting bike riders, who are not a safety hazard. More than 99% of NYC road deaths are caused by motor vehicles. Street safety means motor vehicle safety, so that pedestrians and bike riders can travel without fear of harm. Thank you.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 12:40am

• Christopher Marrero

  This is insane people need to look both ways in bike lanes now. why make bike lanes for bikes and now u can only go 15 MPH on an Ebike that’s insane. NYC just wants to ticket take peoples money , we ditch the cars for less traffic. Now they wanna give more tickets.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 1:17am

• Jean-Luc Henraux

  Hello,

  I’m writing to express my opposition to the proposed rule establishing a speed limit for e-bikes.

  At its core, this law further entrenches an arbitrary double-standard that punishes cyclists while maintaining the rights of drivers to drive recklessly. Cyclists are subject to criminal penalties already – this law now explicitly limits their speed – for unsafe driving. Why aren’t drivers, whose actions are far more likely to result in a pedestrian or driver/passenger death, subject to the same criminal penalties?

  This proposal makes no sense to New Yorkers who value the economical and safety benefits of riding e-bikes.

  Drivers are the ones that should be punished severely for traffic violations. Unsafe driving causes hundreds of preventable deaths each year (https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/189-25/mayor-adams-traffic-deaths-reach-historic-low-during-first-quarter-2025-additional). Cyclists, in contrast, don’t kill anyone.

  Best,
  Jean-Luc

  Comment added June 26, 2025 4:01am

• Sam Bleiberg

  I am against a speed limit for e-bikes. Other forms of transportation including cars, non-motorized bikes, and even humans running are not limited to 15mph, so I think it is arbitrary and unnecessary that e-bikes would be.

  Since cars and trucks are the only vehicles that are capable of going over 100mph, I would be in favor of speed limiters on cars and trucks, since they weigh thousands of pounds and are especially dangerous when driven at high speeds.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 4:05am

• Luka Pusic

  Cars cause so many more accidents and fatalities than bikes. Criminalizing biking makes the roads more dangerous for everyone and continues to make this city less affordable.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 4:51am

• Aidan Harte

  This proposed rule change reflects a city administration with some wildly misaligned priorities. Rather than targeting an affordable, environmentally friendly travel option for New Yorkers, consider spending your time on things that will actually improve our lives. You could start with ensuring that New York is a safe city for pedestrians. Wake up!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 5:03am

• Michael Pusic

  The city permits motorcycles, cars, and other gas guzzling vehicles to travel more than 15 mph in densely populated urban areas. Cyclists often travel above that speed. Arbitrarily limiting the speed of e-mobility scooters to 15 mph will dissuade people from taking a form of transportation that reduces smog and is generally convenient. Risks to personal safety can be mitigated by less paternalistic measures, such as building bike/scooter lanes and requiring people use helmets.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 5:05am

• GY

  Stop targeted unfair bike laws that give Law Enforcement the power to harass and stop anyone on a bike! No unilateral speed limit for bikes! Reckless riding is the culprit. Enforce no riding on sidewalks and going the wrong way on one way streets. Make delivery company’s responsible for their employees. Do not impose “illogical” rules for responsible cyclists who commute and recreate safely.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 6:46am

• Mike

  This rule makes things more dangerous for pedestrians as e-bikes can no longer operate at speeds that allow for safe travel in car traffic lanes.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 7:00am

• Angus McCamy

  I commute to work every day, all year round and say No to a 15mph bike speed limit. Absolutely ridiculous.
  My average speed per a bike computer is 15mph.
  This mean I ride 18-20 mph on bike paths and if on a street with cars 20-26mph. I obey red lights, and stop signs which is why my average is only 15mph.
  City bike routinely go 18-20 mph.
  This is a waste of administrative efforts to make such a law, to enforce such a law, and for what outcome? Make some money on backs of cyclists of all kinds, tourists, delivery bikes, recreational cyclists, and the commuter cyclists? Or is this just a means to provide a reason to stop a person on a bike and force them into a situation that provokes a reaction to be escalated in arrest? This is wrong.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 7:35am

• Kara Jackson

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 7:44am

• David Bender

  It’s a complicated issue and the solution is not slower ebikes. Generally speaking, rules of the road – traffic laws – should apply to everyone – drivers, bikers and pedestrians. The real issue is that there is no enforcement. Cars/trucks are allowed to speed. Bikers ride and pedestrians walk as if they’re outside the law. There’s lots of other things that can be done to help us all get around in this city, but obeying the rules of the road would solve many.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 7:45am

• Alyson Shotz

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Biking helps the environment and the health of people. Without it we would have much more pollution and many more people with health problems. Biking makes this city great! There should be no unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph doesnt even get a traffic ticket. I see people going through red lights in cars all the time and there are no consequences! Crack down on speeding cars and trucks not bikes!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 7:53am

• Ryan Overton

  I strongly oppose the 15mph e-bike speed limit proposal. This arbitrary and nonsensical proposal does nothing to actually improve safety for pedestrians and those who use micro mobility solutions to get around our great city.

  Why is it that I when I ride the subway, it’s a frequent experience to see 4+ police officers standing around on their phones, doing absolutely nothing, while I can ride an electric Citibike (or my own bike) from Brooklyn to Manhattan on some of the busiest bike routes and bridges in the city and not come across one police officer enforcing basic, common sense biking rules?

  Let’s focus on educating and enforcing those laws and rules that will actually make our roads safer for those walking and biking. How about we start with making sure both parties honor green and red lights instead of walking in front of cyclist that have the right of way or speeding through red lights on a bike? How about we make sure cyclists are going the RIGHT DIRECTION on a one way street instead of putting each other in danger by riding against traffic? How about we encourage and enforce cyclist to wear helmets and avoid riding with headphones in their ears? Creating effective education campaigns and enforcing common sense regulations will actually improve the situation from all involved.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:29am

• Alan Gerber

  Speed limits should be applied in order of danger, and nearly all traffic deaths happen due to cars/trucks. Therefore any speed limit adjustment, and general traffic safety policy, should prioritize enforcement with regards to these vehicles.

  Beyond that, I commute on a pedal-assist electric bicycle. Traffic lights are timed at the 25mph speed limit on many NYC streets. Riding the bike at up to the 20mph it is designed for allows me to travel at/near the speed the street is designed for, and thus I follow all the red lights. If the city’s goal is to get road users to travel at 15mph, it should retime the lights to that speed, as on a stretch of upper 3rd Ave.

  Riding at a substantially slower speed than streets are designed for would means hitting red lights every few blocks, encouraging dis-adherence. Slower travel also encourages anti-social drivers to threaten to assault me for riding on the street.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:35am

• Peter Nigrini

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:39am

• Matthew

  If you look in the comments, you literally cannot find a single person that thinks this is a good idea.

  If the job of government is to represent the people, this a terrible step in the wrong direction.

  If you look at Citi bike, their preemptive enforcement of this before it’s even a law has essentially ruined the service completely. Reducing from 18mph to 15mph *without decreasing price* created a more expensive and longer commute to loyal members who have already dealt with price increases from this company.

  It also paints us as idiots that don’t know what we are doing when the majority of e-bike riders are totally fine and obey the street laws.

  The people acting crazy on the e-bikes are mainly delivery riders, who are incentivized by the apps they work for to ride as brazenly as possible. DoorDash / Uber Eats riders should have to register licenses for their e-bikes that their delivery riders use. (paid for by those companies).

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:50am

• Andrew Cohen

  E-bikes need to obey the law, but lowering the speed limit below that of cars is ridiculous. Treat them as cars and enforce traffic laws.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:53am

• Joseph Montgomery

  Speed restrictions on these types of bicycles will not reduce the damage inflicted on pedestrians and cyclists on new york streets. That damage and violence is perpetuated by automobiles and trucks who drive with impunity in new york city. Move traffic enforcement to the department of transportation and enforce moving violations against motor vehicles over 1000 lbs and street safety will drastically improve. This bill is just gaslighting the public into thinking e-bikes are the issue.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:01am

• Albertine Harris

  No unfair bike laws. No special speed limit for bikes.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:01am

• Alexander Nakhla

  No one will use Citibike if this regulation goes through which would be a shame because Citibike has been a great way to reduce the pressure of commuters on other forms of public transportation. It also helps with reducing overall automobile congestion in the city which has been an ongoing issue. Pushing this regulation forward is a horrible idea and it should be reversed immediately.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:14am

• Charles Step

  If you are going to have 15 miles per hour speed limit make it universal for all vehicles and not only e-bikes and treat all road users fairly. Otherwise stop discriminating against bike and e-bike users. A motor vehicle traveling at greater speed is a lot more dangerous than any kind of micromobility user.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:37am

• Anita Lanzi

  I am strongly opposed to the absurd and unfair proposal to for an e-bike speed limit. The city would ensure greater safety for all by either educating the public on sharing the streets safely and/or better enforcement of regulations meant to make sure that automobile drivers obey rules. I believe that in general reducing the number of cars on city streets makes us safer. Harassing cyclists and potentially discouraging bicycle use seems counter-intuitive to increasing safety.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:55am

• Eric Eisenberg

  This proposed rule, if enacted, will cause an appreciable number of persons to switch from using bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters, or pedal-assist commercial bicycles, which are relatively low-emission forms of transit, to using fossil fuel-powered cars or trucks, which are relatively high emission forms of transit and which increase congestion, further increasing overall emissions through time spent idling in gridlock. The resulting increase in emissions will, or at least may, cause environmental harm, including but not limited to harm to the health of New Yorkers through emissions exposure and climate change.

  I do not understand that the city has performed any environmental review as to this rule, rendering it illegal under SEQRA and CEQA frameworks. Please scrap this rulemaking, or at a minimum commence a full environmental review given the obvious harms to the environment from it encouraging fossil fuel consumption.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:59am

• Stephen Zorio

  Reckless drivers continue to kill and maim New Yorkers with impunity yet e-bikes have become the focus of this mistaken, poorly thought out, and ill intentioned rule. The solution here is to make rules for the modes of transport that pose an actual threat to life (cars) and to take space away from the world’s most inefficient form of transportation (cars) and give it to pedestrians and bikes so encounters between the two are limited and rare. This e-bike rule is a mistake, I implore you to reject it and focus on actual, empirically provable, problems: cars.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:09am

• Miriam Fischer

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:42am

• Tina M Bailey

  To Whom It May Concern,

  As a lifelong bicyclist and someone who has twice been hit by cars while biking—and many more times screamed at to “get off the road”—I am writing to strongly oppose the proposed rule that would limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. This proposal is not only illogical but dangerous. It reflects a deeply flawed understanding of street safety, and risks criminalizing the very people trying to travel cleanly, efficiently, and safely in an already perilous urban environment.

  Let’s be clear: people riding bikes do not cause the crisis on our streets—cars and trucks do. Year after year in New York City, motor vehicle drivers are responsible for tens of thousands of crashes, hundreds of pedestrian and cyclist deaths, and countless injuries. Cyclists, on the other hand, cause almost no fatalities. And yet this rule would punish them with speed traps and criminal penalties for traveling just 15 mph—while SUVs roar through the same lanes at 35 mph with little or no enforcement.

  This rule would not enhance safety. Instead, it would further discourage biking, which research clearly shows makes streets more dangerous for everyone. Worse, it opens the door to discriminatory enforcement. It would empower police to stop, ticket, or arrest e-bike riders—disproportionately immigrants, working-class people, and people of color—for minor speed infractions, exposing them to potential criminal records, harassment, or even deportation in Trump’s renewed anti-immigrant crackdown.

  Biking is not a crime, and we should stop treating it like one. If the goal is to improve safety, the solution is not criminalization—it’s infrastructure. Build more dedicated, protected bike lanes. Expand e-bike charging and storage options. Make streets genuinely accessible to people who don’t drive. Encourage biking by making it safer, not riskier.

  I urge the Department of Transportation to take the following steps instead:

  Reject the proposed 15 mph e-bike speed limit.

  Work with New York City to enforce Sammy’s Law, which would allow the city to set a 20 mph speed limit for all vehicles.

  Support legislation that holds delivery app companies accountable for the unrealistic, unsafe paces they force on their workers.

  Expand investments in protected bike lane infrastructure to separate cyclists from high-speed car traffic and reduce sidewalk riding.

  Fund education and outreach programs that promote safe cycling and mutual respect among road users.

  As someone who has already endured being hit by cars—twice—I can tell you: bicyclists are not the problem. We are the people trying to make this city more livable, less polluted, and more humane. Please do not undermine those efforts by saddling us with arbitrary limits and criminal penalties.

  Sincerely,

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:51am

• Safiya Altman

  Blindly lumping all e-bikes together and restricting speeds is not going to solve the problem of deliveristas riding unsafely. Until cars are restricted to 20mph on neighborhood streets, this will just create further negative interactions between cars and bikes

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:51am

• Patrick Brady

  I oppose this proposed law, which will bring more unnecessary harassment of cyclists.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:58am

• Ryan Goldberg

  This is a ludicrous proposal. Cars, not e-bikes, are unequivocally the greatest threat to pedestrians (and cyclists) on our streets, and the City has made almost no effort to rein in speeders by lowering speed limits on its streets for car drivers, as is now its state-mandated right. Regulate the delivery-app companies; make the streets safer for everyone with a real network of hardened protected bike lanes.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:58am

• Garrett Blinkhorn

  I have been an avid e-bike rider through CitiBike since moving to NYC, with over 800 rides and over 3000 miles traveled using these e-bikes (see attachment). Other comments have already addressed the questionable legality of such a rule in the first place, so I won’t argue this point further although I agree strongly with it (see the comment from “CereBel Legal Intelligence” summarizing this issue as a starting point).

  The artificial speed limit of 15 mph which was rolled out by the Adams administration has significantly decreased the quality of the service received (in terms of travel time and associated costs) while at the same time increasing the danger faced by the rider in utilizing it.

  I can think of countless times in the past where I have been traveling down streets or avenues which don’t have bike lanes or allow room for passing by vehicles following, but I never felt like I was in the way of traffic following behind me because I was able to travel at approximately the same speed as the cars behind me. I was able to effectively ride with the flow of traffic as a result.

  Now, it is obvious that I am in the way (even though I have every right to use these roads on an e-bike just like drivers of cars do) and several drivers have already made dangerous attempts to pass me to avoid having their own speed limited. This never occurred prior to the speed limit rollout, but it has become a significant risk now.

  Unfortunately, useable bike lanes are not universal across all streets/avenues (and this is not realistically achievable in the city anyways), so any e-bike legislation MUST assume that riders will need to share the existing roadways with motor vehicles. That being the case, minimizing the differential in speed between e-bikes and motor vehicles allows riders to operate naturally within the flow of traffic without impeding drivers. An increase in the speed differential between these modes of transportation INCREASES the risks faced by riders while simultaneously impeding the flow of traffic, effectively penalizing that mode of transportation entirely. See the comment from “Amber DaSilva” which discusses this point as well.

  Furthermore, its logically ridiculous to limit the speed of an e-bike to 15 mph when any rider using a standard bike with a gear system can easily exceed this. The entire point of an e-bike is to achieve the same mobility as a regular bicycle, but with reduced effort. Anyone who has taken even one ride using an e-bike on a hot summer day can appreciate how significant/important this reduction in effort really is, and riders should not be penalized for utilizing the Citibike e-bike platform if the same rule can not be applied to ALL cyclists.

  It is obvious that a 15 mph speed limit cannot be artificially enforced on standard cyclists since they don’t use electronic systems (is the NYPD going to set speed traps and write tickets to cyclists who exceed it?), and it is obvious that the speed limit cannot be artificially enforced on individuals riding privately-owned e-bikes as well without utilizing the same style of speed traps. Therefore, it is ONLY the users of the Citibike platform which are being artificially limited to a speed of 15 mph, which effectively discourages the usage of such a platform when privately-owned options face no such restriction. The city should be looking for ways to expand the adoption of public modes of transportation, not discouraging their usage in favor of private alternatives.

  The only reason why the Adams administration was able to roll this out so quickly is due to the specific nature of the relationship between Citibike and NYC as a whole. They would never be able to rollout an artificial speed limit to privately owned e-bikes in the same way, and its worth noting that we don’t even attempt to roll out speed governors for automobiles for the exact same reasons.

  I am STRONGLY urging the DOT to rescind the artificial speed limit on Citibikes in compliance with NY VTL 1642 (26.(a)), which prohibits NYC from establishing a speed limit “throughout the city” at a limit below 20 mph. A citywide limit of 15mph on commercial bicycles is such a prohibited limit. This kind of performative, reactive, and poorly-though-through action taken by the Adams administration is exactly why I look forward to voting him out of office in November, and the DOT has an opportunity now to correct this injustice while aligning e-bike usage with the existing laws as written.

  Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to attending the public hearing to discuss this further.

  Comment attachment
  CitibikeProfile.pdf

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:58am

• Patrick Thomas Schnell

  I am writing in reference to the proposed rule would amend sections 4-01 and 4-06 of Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New York (“34 RCNY”) to add speed restrictions for people operating bicycles with electric assist (“e-bikes”), electric scooters, or pedal-assist commercial bicycles on NYC streets.
  As an avid bike rider, I encounter a multitude of dangerous issues in NYC traffic daily. Evidently, on occasion, e-bikes go too fast. However, that is not even on the top 20 of the issues that truly endanger cyclists or pedestrians. The concept that reducing e-bike speed would in any way increase safety could only have been crafted by people who are not participating in traffic other than as drivers. Based on actual evidence, it is clear that cars, buses, and trucks pose by far the greatest danger to life and limb for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers themselves. Thus, any enforcement action should focus on those traffic participants.
  Please do not make e-bikes less desirable by reducing speed. This has nothing to do with safety. E-bikes are a welcome addition to traffic in NYC and may reduce noise and air pollution (and increase safety for all!) any time they replace vehicular transportation.
  Thank you for considering,
  Patrick Schnell, M.D., FAAP

  Comment added June 26, 2025 11:07am

• Christian Hansen

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 12:35pm

• Joseph Davis

  The use of NYPD officers to issue criminal summonses for minor bike violations is not an effective use of police resources. Police officers are already expected to do too many things that do not relate to major crimes. The proposal is an abuse both of cyclists and of police officers.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 12:36pm

• Christine Edwards

  E bikes are not inherently more dangerous than regular bikes and a lot of regular bikers achieve speeds over 15 miles an hour easily.

  More protected bike lanes will offer better safety results and dedicated roads to only buses, bikes and pedestrians ( especially cross town). Outer boroughs need more of this type of infrastructure as well.

  There should be more enforcement against double parking and cars and trucks parked existing in bike lanes. It’s insane the amount of obstacles and traffic jams and blind spots delivery vehicles create. Crack down on that first before coming after the food delivery guys who work extremely hard to make a living, not to mention regular bike commuters

  Comment added June 26, 2025 1:00pm

• Ryan Quinn

  Dear NYC Transportation Officials,
  I oppose the proposed 15mph speed limit for e-bikes as it would create significant safety and practical concerns for cyclists throughout the city.
  A 15mph limit would force e-bike riders to travel at dangerously slow speeds relative to traffic flow. On many NYC streets, maintaining this speed would put cyclists at risk of being rear-ended by vehicles or create dangerous situations where cars attempt risky passing maneuvers around slower-moving bikes.
  The current 20mph limit for Class 1 and 2 e-bikes strikes an appropriate balance between safety and functionality. E-bikes are essential transportation for delivery workers, commuters, and residents who depend on efficient travel across NYC. Reducing speeds by 25% would significantly impact delivery times, commute efficiency, and the economic viability of e-bike-dependent livelihoods. Not to mention slow the adoption of bicycles in NY.
  Rather than blanket speed restrictions, the city should focus on improving bike infrastructure, enforcing existing traffic laws equally for all road users, and addressing the root causes of accidents through better street design and education.
  E-bikes represent a crucial piece of NYC’s sustainable transportation future. Overly restrictive speed limits will discourage adoption and push people back to less environmentally friendly transportation options.
  Thank you for considering these concerns.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 1:41pm

• S

  I agree with this proposal an in addition would like to see these registered, and operators should have drivers license. There are to many maniacs driving the wrong way, disobeying traffic devices, cutting cars and pedestrians off, and riding on sidewalks.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 1:44pm

• S. Nam

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 1:44pm

• Eric Schneider

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 1:47pm

• Eric Radezky

  I support this proposal to add speed restrictions of 15mph to all e-bikes that have motors or pedal-assist. These bikes are dangerous. I was hit and injured by one in 2022. Many elderly people I know are scared to cross the streets because of the fear of being hit, and some people are hit by these bikes.
  Bike advocates will say this is “criminalizing cycling,” but it is not. It is simply an attempt to regulate a dangerous situation, the same as the City Council does in any number of other situations where the public is put at risk. And I myself am a cyclist and have been in NYC for 30 years. But I do not use any type of motor on my bike, so the fastest speed I can possibly get up to is 12mph. That means two things: first, I have more time to stop if a potential crash is imminent, and second, there is a big difference between 12mph and 15mph or 20mph. You might not think it but there is.
  So please move this bill forward and pass it. Do not get distracted by the concentrated lobbying effort sure to come from Transportation Alternatives against this proposal. The fact that they oppose it shows that they are not a safety-first advocacy group but rather that their policies are bikes-first, always, regardless of any danger those bikes might pose to the public, and that’s sad.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 3:14pm

• Veronica Brown

  I strongly oppose the 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes. This rule does not make New Yorkers safe, instead it exposes New Yorkers to dangerous contact with law enforcement. If the City was serious about making the streets safer, it would invest in bicycle infrastructure and take action to limit dangerous cars from speeding.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 3:32pm

• Steven Greenfield

  I support Mayor Adams’s proposals for cracking down on e-bikes, which never should have been made street legal in the first place. They should be required to be licensed, and offenders should be subject to sanctions. Moreover, the delivery apps and restaurants that incentivize their lawbreaking should be penalized. I cannot stress enough how New Yorkers’ quality of life is adversely affected when you take your own life into your hands every time you cross the street: e-bike riders, often delivery people, speeding, running red lights, going the wrong way down one-way streets, riding in pedestrian-only lanes, riding on the West Side Esplanade, which is illegal, using Riverside Park as a delivery-bike expressway, etc. Enough already!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 3:39pm

• Brian F

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is stupid, illogical, and puts New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in Trump’s illegal immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is insane (a hallmark of Addumbs and the NYPD) to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for EVERY vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. And I VOTE!! Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 4:58pm

• Adam Gibbs

  I oppose the proposed e-bike speed restriction and believe it is unhelpful and misguided. Why would we restrict the speed of an e-bike, which is a few feet long and weighs less than 75 pounds, at 15 MPH while we continue to allow a speed limit of 25 MPH for passenger cars that weigh more than 4,000 pounds on average? This proposed rule seems to be scapegoating e-bike riders–whether immigrant deliveristsas who help the city run or mothers ferrying their kids to school in cargo bikes–while ignoring the larger issue of vehicular violence in our city. Please reject this rule change and focus your energy on truly making the streets of NYC safer with universal daylighting, low traffic neighborhoods, and more streets that are designed for pedestrians (the vast majority of NYC residents) rather than automobiles. Thank you.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 5:11pm

• Mary Beth Kooper

  Bikers who go too fast on the roads should get traffic tickets, NOT CRIMINAL summonses. I am vehemently opposed to this proposed rule. It will do nothing for safety and it will unjustly expose delivery workers, commuters, and anyone who bikes to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation — all for simply riding a bike.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 5:23pm

• Peter Johnston

  The speed limit for e-bikes is ridiculous. E-bikes are HARMLESS. Cars kill and injure about 250 times more New Yorkers than e-bikes. Yes, I typed that right. Two hundred fifty! Only .4% (yes, point-four, as in four out of every thousand!) traffic injuries are caused by e-bikes. The other 99.6% are caused by cars.
  A car is wider and less maneuverable than an e-bike, and a car has blind spots, and cars protect their drivers (which encourages reckless behavior), and so a car is much more likely to hit a person. Cars are much faster than e-bikes, and dozens to hundreds of times heavier, and so a person struck by a car will be much more seriously injured than an equivalent person struck by an e-bike.
  And yet the mayor insists on giving criminal summonses for cyclists who break laws, while insisting on not giving summonses for car drivers (who are objectively more dangerous!) who break the exact same laws. Ridiculous!
  And now he wants a speed limit on e-bikes that’s 40% lower than the lowest speed limit the city imposes on cars! Get the fuck out of here!

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:03pm

• Victor M Ortiz

  It will turned to become a Collar for Dollars and a gateway for Quotas and promotions for bad, lazy and unproductive law officers.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:12pm

• Shane LeClair

  We don’t need new rules to keep our streets safe!

  Enforce all of the existing traffic rules and keep bikes, e-bikes and scooter off the sidewalks.

  It’s not the speed of e-bikes that is the problem. It is the reckless use on sidewalks and against traffic that causes problems.

  Enforcing existing traffic rules for cars and trucks would also help ease this problem. I ride a bike every day and see cars blatently running red lights every day.

  Safer streets will keep riders off sidewalks and limit conflict with pedestrians.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 8:46pm

• Andrew Morrison

  Cars are what’s killing New Yorkers. Every single day many people die or are injured by cars. I can’t let my young son go out on the street for fear that he’s going to get killed by a car and we’re doing almost nothing to enforce existing rules meant to keep us safe.

  I always assumed we didn’t have enough cops to enforce our rules for cars, so when I see resources being dedicated to going after bikes it makes me so angry with the city government for making terribly misinformed priority decisions with deadly consequences.

  Rules for bikes are wonderful but please, for the safety of all New Yorkers, make the right priority decisions and focus your energy on the actual source of so much death and injury in our city, cars.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 9:23pm

• Darrien Glasser

  It seems absurd to think we’re requiring speed limits for e-bikes before we restrict the speed of cars. Cars take up significantly more space and have killed significantly more people. Why are we focusing on e-bikes and scooters? We need to focus on the actual problem at hand first, cars and motorists. We can reconsider e-bikes and such only after we’ve handled the car problem that plagues New York.

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:04pm

• Christopher Sanders

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 26, 2025 10:22pm

• Daniel Starr

  Don’t criminalize bikes. I’m more afraid of being killed by cars speeding through red lights. Build more bike lanes.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 7:57am

• Marco Nieves

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 8:37am

• Hans

  No E-anything should be in the bike lanes, only human powered bikes. I’m 100% for an e-everything ban. They created a dangerous environment and don’t deserve to be anywhere in NYC.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 8:42am

• Chris Peterson

  I cannot wrap my head around how you can logically implement a city wide 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes when you do not do the same for cars who injure and kill statistically what would be considered 100% of pedestrians in NYC.

  It so insane to me that this can be presented as a responsible policy. History will judge you. The facts are clear today.

  Do the right thing. The heavy lifting. Start regulating the apps. They need to be responsible employers. Train their workers. Maintain their own fleet. Contribute to the infrastructure they are relying on. Citibike should cap all e-bike rides. They should not be charging riders per the minute!! This is why you are getting a considerable amount of rude riding behaviors from Citibike riders. Fund it and cap the fare.

  Lastly, build out better infrastructure everywhere. I live in East New York and it’s appalling to me how much you ignore pedestrians and bicyclists in public space design here. You just repaved Pitkin Ave. A great opportunity to improve safety. What did you do? You painted it exactly how it was. A death trap for cyclists and pedestrians.

  We just had a primary election. I hope the message was sent loud and clear. This city is ours. It’s not for billionaires and their buddies who drive around in Dodge Chargers or who call themselves the “Bike Mayor” and then get chauffeured around in giant SUVs.

  It’s our city. You work for us. Not them. And, we’re not resting on our heels again for a while.

  This all goes for the Bedford Ave bike lane too.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 9:01am

• Jonathan Keller

  Not sure why cyclists are being disproportionately targeted, except that it’s low hanging fruit. As much as e-bikes are annoying, they constitute such a tiny percentage of the crashes and injuries in this city, and yet, tickets to ebikers and cyclists are being sent to criminal court, while drivers, who have only increased in their reckless behavior in the last 5 years, get standard summonses, if they even get ticketed. Why not focus the attention on the true danger to the city’s residents, than this token move to appease a vocal anti-cyclist minority?

  I do not ride an e-bike, but I am not blind to the real danger on the city’s streets. Cars and trucks.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 9:24am

• Daniel Rothblatt

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to lower the e-bike speed limit to 15 mph. Drivers kill hundreds of New Yorkers on our streets every year; cyclists, none. It is laughable to look at these numbers and propose police action against cyclists. The proposed rule is based on fear, not facts, and would not address any of the problems people are having with our streets.

  There are real safety concerns around commercial e-bikes, specifically e-bikes for delivery companies like Doordash, which force their delivery workers to move an enormous number of food orders at an unsafe pace. Instead of punishing the workers for their employers’ bad behavior, we need regulation on these food delivery apps so that their workers can work at a safer pace.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 9:28am

• Amy Obermeyer

  I am writing to express my extreme disgust at the fact we are even having this conversation as a community.

  The overwhelming majority of injuries and fatalities are caused by cars and their drivers. Cars, and especially pickups and SUVs, are orders of magnitude heavier, have huge blindspots e-micromobility devices lack, and have large and high hoods/bumpers to draw cyclists and pedestrians under. There is no reason for e-micromobility to have lower speed limits; in fact it is cars whose speed limits are too high (and wildly unenforced).

  There is exactly one reason to enact this proposed law, and it is racism. There is no doubt in my mind that the backlash against e-cyclists is wholly reducible to racism. The fact of the matter is this is clearly targeting deliveristas, who are disproportionately non-white and foreign-born.

  If this were actually about safety, we would be asking why we allow cars to regularly drive so fast and recklessly without consequence, and we would be holding delivery companies accountable, both for encouraging reckless behavior, and also for the regular wage theft and liability-skirting these same apps are notorious for. Anything less is wanton racism.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 9:59am

• Jennifer Poole

  This proposed rule will not make our streets safer. There is barely any enforcement of cars running stop signs, not yielding to pedestrians, traveling at speeds higher than 25 mph, parking in crosswalks, double parking everywhere. Cars and trucks pose many more hazards to everyone on the streets–drivers, cyclists, or pedestrians. Delivery workers, Citibike riders, and other e-mobility users should not have more enforcement than 2,000-6,000 pound vehicles who can (and do) travel at very deadly speeds on our city streets.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 10:36am

• Eoin

  No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  To whom it may concern,

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  If you want to make our streets safer, start by cracking down on reckless driving and red light traffic violations!

  We should be making our infrastructure safer for cyclist (not criminalizing it) and pedestrians by adding more protected bike lines and improved signage.

  Thank you!

  Comment added June 27, 2025 10:57am

• Brooklyn Resident

  As a pedestrian, this rule change does nothing to keep bikers or pedestrians safer. It’s not easily enforceable and will lead to further criminalization of bikers, at a time when the city should be focusing on getting more people out of congestion-causing, dangerous cars and into bikes.

  DOT should instead focus on making streets safer for pedestrians – by increasing daylighting and decreasing speed limits to prevent auto crashes, which cause 100% of pedestrian deaths

  Comment added June 27, 2025 11:03am

• John

  More restrictions need to be put in place. Bikers are extremely reckless and put the burden of safety on everything else except themselves.

  Running red lights ( without looking both ways ), running stop signs ( without looking ), and putting themselves in dangerous situations for themselves..

  Comment added June 27, 2025 11:08am

• Carl Wojciechowski

  Speed limits on bikes make no sense. Most ebikes are already limited in their speed by design, and this will just make it so that police improperly overpolice bikes while motor vehicles continue to be able to speed with impunity. In many cases, especially where there is no bike lane available, it is imperative that cyclists are able to keep up with cars, which are moving at 20 mph or faster. This is a nonsense rule and should not be implemented.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 11:10am

• Joe Matunis

  Stop the criminalization of bicycle related traffic offenses. No to the 15 mph speed limit on e bikes.

  Please improve safety in bike lanes by increasing enforcement of non bike use of lanes. Add more closed streets and protected bike lanes.

  Thank you!

  Comment added June 27, 2025 11:15am

• Juliette Moore

  I regularly see drivers make dangerous turns, speed, run red lights with zero consequences except a high number of pedestrian deaths. Why set a policy that doesn’t impact pedestrian deaths or injuries or safety? This change is a politcal stunt, hostile to cyclists and is not based on any metrics of safety.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 12:47pm

• Ben Eustace

  The proposed law is not supported by data and does not fix the real issue: insufficient biking infrastructure and lack of public education on safe biking. Plus, bikes can still go faster than 15mph. This is just knee jerk reaction not supported by data.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 1:44pm

• Maureen Muldoon

  Higher speeds should at least be allowed for experienced users with more miles under their belt, membership holders, or those of a certain age. I’ve been riding the ebikes for almost 3 years with no accidents or falls but all near misses I may have had were from cars not respecting the bike lanes. These bikes are so necessary for those in the outer boroughs who aren’t close to the trains. Please bring the speeds back to 20mph or lower the price back to 19 cents a minute. We can’t keep taking these price increases.

  Here’s some changes that people actually want.
  -Queens to Brooklyn flat rates
  -higher gears for blue bikes
  -Phone holders

  Comment added June 27, 2025 2:42pm

• Daniel W.

  This is a dangerous rule. Bike riders, including e-bike riders, are often forced to share the roadway with cars, either because of a lack of bike lanes, or because cars are driving in or blocking dedicated bike lanes. Forcing e-bikes to ride at 15 mph when a line of cars behind it wants to drive at 20 or 25 mph endangers the lives of bike riders.

  I speak from experience. I ride a pedal-assist e-bike commuting to work, 11 miles a day, between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I am forced, literally on a daily basis, to ride in the street with cars, even when there are dedicated bike lanes on the street, because those bike lanes are constantly blocked by parked cars, delivery trucks, and NYPD vehicles. A week does not go by when I do not face a driver with road rage who (1) resents that I am biking in the street, (2) wants to go faster, and (3) endangers my safety by trying to go around me or tailgate me to literally force me off the road. Forcing e-bike riders to ride slower will only exacerbate this.

  That this will make roads more dangerous is so blatantly obvious to anyone that rides a bike in this City. Limiting e-bike speeds to 15 mph is absolutely dangerous, will hurt people, and is the wrong thing to do.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 2:44pm

• Katherine Herman

  I am writing to oppose the proposed rule lowering the speed limit for e-bikes to 15 miles per hour. There is no reason that e-bikes, which cause a tiny proportion of injuries compared to cars and trucks, should have a lower speed limit. While there are dangerous users of mopeds and e-bikes out there, this rule won’t fix that. Rather, this seems to be part of an effort to vilifying e-bike users for political gain. We need to encourage New Yorkers to use environmentally friendly and less dangerous forms of transportation like e-bikes rather than cars, not scapegoat and criminalize them.

  I also want to argue against the lumping of pedal assist e-bikes, which are similar to traditional bicycles except for the inclusion of a small motor to make it easier to carry heavier loads, with mopeds. We cannot make good policy if we treat these as the same type of vehicle.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 2:49pm

• Stephanie

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 3:43pm

• Jarrod Koenig

  The way the new 15mph ebike speed cap is being implemented has created a giant safety issue.

  The bikes don’t just stop helping you pedal at 15mph — they actually start to lock up. That means if you’re trying to get out of the way of a car or avoid a hazard, the bike might slow you down instead.

  It’s dangerous and counterintuitive. The speed cap should mean that the pedal assist cuts out: it should not override the rider and potentially begin engine braking when you might be in the middle of dangerous situation.

  Please fix this.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 4:21pm

• Cotter Christian

  The 15 mph cap on Citi Bike e-bikes is a reactionary policy that punishes riders while failing to address the real public safety crisis: unsafe streets dominated by cars and trucks.
  If safety were truly the priority, we’d see the city enforcing a 15 mph cap on vehicles, which are responsible for the vast majority of pedestrian injuries and fatalities. Instead, this feels like a politically motivated decision meant to placate a vocal minority, rather than a data-driven response.
  E-bikes at 18 mph were one of the only efficient, low-emission alternatives to driving. Slowing them down, without offering safer bike infrastructure or reduced pricing, reveals the city’s unwillingness to invest in real, long-term solutions.
  I urge the city to reconsider this short-sighted rule. Restore the 18 mph limit, or at least create an opt-in tier for experienced riders. Don’t let e-bikes be a scapegoat for poor infrastructure.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 4:40pm

• Edward Carmody

  Sorry, but it seems dumb to have different speed limits for different types of vehicles. However, if we are going to do that, then we should slow down the vehicles doing the most harm to pedestrians, which is cars and trucks. Doing anything else is super disrespectful to those who have suffered and/or died at the hands of reckless car and truck drivers.

  A good alternative to changing the speed limits for ebikes only would be to start revoking the licenses and impounding vehicles that have repeated moving violations in NYC. Those are the ones causing the danger to the public.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 4:55pm

• Dylan Brown

  Bikes account for a fraction of injuries and almost NO deaths in New York City. Why not focus on the thousands of injuries, both serious and minor, and DEATHS that occur from automobiles every year. Preventable deaths that should be addressed as opposed to focusing on cyclists and vulnerable populations attempting to make a living.

  Comment added June 27, 2025 8:39pm

• Austin Schnitzer

  Limiting e-bike speeds down to 15 mph from the current 20mph cap on most e-bikes without addressing driver speeds will not improve safety. E-bikes were responsible for less than half a percent of last year’s 10,000+ traffic injuries while drivers were responsible for over 99% over injuries.
  The city should instead be focused on implementing Sammy’s law to lower the citywide speed limit for all road users instead of singling out an already slow form of transportation.
  Current rules that allow drivers to go 35mph without facing automating ticketing pose a much greater danger to pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. The city should lower the speed limit to 20 mph for all and focus on enforcing existing traffic laws.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 8:21am

• K.O.

  I am against this proposal to limit e-bikes. It is illogical and will allow police to ticket whoever they want, for example, in the middle of a bridge. While I understand the intent, what needs to change is cycling etiquette/accountability and road design. I say this as a bike commuter, red lights are predictable, cyclists need to come to a stop. Hand signals are easy to use to indicate if they are turning/biking across a crosswalk. Lights are mandatory at night. Pedestrians could benefit from better street designs and physical islands between bike lanes and car lanes. They can also be more aware, I’ve seen many pedestrians not look to cross a red pedestrian light and almost get hit by cyclists. All this to say, I have also regularly seen cyclists watching videos on their phone while cycling, intentionally crossing red lights, and cutting through a crowd of pedestrians. These are the actions that should get ticketed but these instances are not an issue of speed. I’ve seen cyclists both fast and slow commit these issues. On a separate note, delivery people are also a large proponent of this issue because their income from delivery companies come from the need to speed.

  Slowing the speed limit will only cause people run red lights at 14mph. If running a red is illegal, we don’t need another useless law.

  I urge NYC DOT to reject this proposal; cycling can be safer, cleaner and healthier for the city especially compared to cars.

  Thank you

  PS. Traffic lights timed also for cyclists have been very helpful in not running red lights.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 9:20am

• William Farrell

  This proposed 15 mph is arbitrary and capricious, based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 11:32am

• Scott Rubin

  Why does this speed limit apply only to E-Bikes, E-Scooters, and Pedal-Assist Commercial Bicycles? A car or truck is more more dangerous than any of those. Getting hit by an E-Bike going over 15mph could cause serious injury, but I would rather get hit by the E-Bike than a car.

  Please set the citywide speed limit for all motor vehicles of any kind, including cars and trucks, to 15mph at all times on al streets.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:04pm

• Nathan Dennis

  I strongly oppose this arbitrary speed limit for e-bikes. The vast majority of all accidents occur via cars — cars that speed, cars that run through red lights and stop signs. When e-bikes have to leave protected bikelanes, they are at the mercy of these same cars. Forcing the bikes even slower makes this cycling more dangerous. A smarter solution would be to focus on keeping motorcycles out of bike lanes, adding more protected bikelanes, daylighting intersections, and suspending licenses of reckless drivers.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:10pm

• Dave

  Motor vehicles cause the overwhelming majority of pedestrian. Based on city data: Private passenger cars account for 79% of all pedestrian KSI crashes. There were 6,024 pedestrians injured by motor vehicles in 2024 while only 354 by micro-mobility devices. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets. When I leave the house every day, I’m not scared of bikes — I’m scared of cars.

  I propose we reduce the speed limit for ALL motor vehicles in the entire city to 15mph (matching the speed limit for E-bikes). With a similar jest for enforcement from the NYPD, this would significantly improve pedestrian safety (especially for the elderly and kids). Dream big – let’s do it.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:10pm

• Kevin D

  Bikers are being unfairly targeted with additional restrictions when the rules of the road for drivers are rarely if ever enforced – and motor vehicles are significantly more dangerous. Take the time to improve the city for bikers instead of greedy car companies and the rich. As Zohran’s nomination proves, the people want change and not the government making things worse for everyone who can’t afford a limo.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:11pm

• Chris Efthimiou

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment. E-bikers and cyclists can be reminded through public awareness campaigns to be mindful of pedestrians and fellow cyclists. Legal punishments are not the answer.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:13pm

• Zev Pogrebin

  New York City’s unjustified war on bikes continues. As hundreds of people riding and walking are killed and thousands are injured by cars and trucks, the city has decided to scapegoat e-bikes. This speed limit will make NYC streets more dangerous, as hostility to bikes will lower their mode share while continuing to take enforcement resources away from dangerous driving—the cause of our public health crisis.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:20pm

• Alyce

  Accidents and deaths caused by cars outnumber accidents and deaths caused by bikes in NYC. If we’re going to put a speed limit on e-bikes, then we should put the same speed limit on cars, and ensure there is equal enforcement from the NYPD. We should be be taking action on the most dangerous road users in the city – drivers – who disproportionately cause fatalities and injuries to pedestrians and bikers. Cars take up so much of the space on the road that pedestrians and bikers end up in each others’ way trying to stay safe from dangerous cars. Whether I’m walking or biking, I get yelled at by drivers, they speed by, and actively wish me harm. It is scary, and then drivers park in crosswalks, making walking even more dangerous. These driver transgressions are rarely enforced and pose a much greater danger to me, and should be dealt with at a much higher level of urgency than enforcement of ebikers.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:22pm

• Shanghao Zhong

  I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes. This restriction is both unfair and potentially unsafe for the following reasons:
  Unfair Comparison to Cars: E-bikes are significantly lighter and less damaging in the event of an accident compared to cars. Despite this, cars are allowed speed limits of 25 mph or more in many areas. Enforcing a lower speed limit on e-bikes, given their lower potential for harm, is inconsistent and unjustified.
  Safety Concerns with Non-Electric Bikes: Many non-electric bicycles can easily exceed 15 mph, especially on downhill stretches or when ridden by experienced cyclists. Imposing a slower speed limit on e-bikes creates a speed differential that could lead to unsafe passing situations and increase the risk of accidents among cyclists.

  I urge you to reconsider this proposal and adopt alternative approaches, such as licensing requirements for e-bike delivery personnel, 25 mph speed limit that are on par with motor vehicles, and better street design that organically slow down cyclists and enable safe crossing.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:39pm

• Raymond Nagem

  Capping CitiBike speeds at 15 mph is unnecessary and counterproductive. E-bikes nationwide are typically governed to 20 mph for safety and efficiency, and there is no compelling evidence that 15 mph offers significantly more protection for either riders or pedestrians. The vast majority of serious accidents involving bicycles occur at intersections or due to interactions with motor vehicles, not due to a few extra miles per hour in a dedicated bike lane. Slowing bikes down actually increases risk by keeping riders in traffic zones longer.

  Moreover, limiting speeds to 15 mph reduces the appeal of the bike share program. Slowing bikes will discourage cycling and lead to more car use, more congestion, and more pollution.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:50pm

• Caroline

  This is a bad idea. New York doesn’t have bike lanes everywhere, so throttling the speed limit when I need to share the road with cars makes it wildly unsafe, especially when I use Citibike ebikes or when I use my own e-bike to commute to school. Manual bikes can go faster than 15 mph–Central Park even has a speed limit of 20 mph (source: https://www.centralparknyc.org/activities/guides/bicycling), which is a more sensible speed limit. Throttling the speed will not solve the underlying issue, which is dangerous actions like going the wrong way on the bike lane and crossing through red lights when there is active traffic.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:51pm

• David A Knowles

  I’d be fine with a 20mph but 15mph is ridiculous. Cars kill 3000 pedestrians a year in the city, why aren’t we talking about limiting them to 15mph?

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:52pm

• Evelyn Boeke

  Several years ago I was legally crossing the street when a vehicle hit me, tossing my body like a rag doll into the air and then against the asphalt on my back where it did severe and permanent damage to my spine. Like most pedestrians injuries or fatalities that was done by a car, not by a bike. Where are the 15 mph speed limits for the machines that actually hurt and kill people? This is mere predjudice, don’t pretend it is legislating or public health.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 12:54pm

• Clara Duffy

  I don’t believe e-bikes should be limited to a speed slower than cars, as cars are responsible for the vast majority of injuries on the road. I don’t believe focusing on the speed of a small group of road users who are most vulnerable to cars is the correct way to make everyone safer.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:01pm

• Caleb Massimi

  This makes ebikes more unsafe for those experiencing riders who commute on the streets. I already feel very uncomfortable taking a lane at 18mph with a car behind me. Going slower would put me more at risk. This reduces the viability of the bikes. I would propose variable speed limits based on seniority. Please do not limit the citibikes unilaterally.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:01pm

• OSCAR LARA

  I do not support this rule change to 15 mph. This decreased limit INCREASES DANGER for bike riders on the streets and is negligible for increasing safety. The bikes must be able to keep pace with the cars or it puts both drivers at risk for accidents. The city is best focused on focusing on dangerous cars for speeding. It is unenforceable and resources are better spent on making sure cars are not speeding and bikes are following existing traffic laws.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:03pm

• David Myers

  As a pedestrian and biker, I fully support the reduced speed limit. While some may oppose it on the basis that cars cause more harm, the fact remains that e-bikes, considered on their own merits, contribute greatly to the chaos and stress of our streets and parks. Our spaces must be safe for all users, including the disabled, elderly, and children. A reduced speed limit would make negotiating spaces easier and bikes both more predictable and less potentially harmful. The reduction in speed would result in a negligible difference in most trip times for most trips.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:12pm

• James Larghi

  Thank you for taking the safety of pedestrians into consideration. 15 mph is fine.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:21pm

• Dan K

  This arbitrary restriction is silly. Unless there is a plan to also limit motor vehicle traffic to 15 mph within city limits, this seems like a pointless exercise. We should be making it easier to adopt non-motor vehicle forms of transportation to minimize the real danger which is motor vehicles.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:21pm

• Hary Colon

  While intended to improve safety, this measure fails to address the real issues and may unintentionally increase risks for both riders and pedestrians.

  Sidewalk riding — a key concern cited in support of this policy — is not caused by e-bike speed, but by unsafe street conditions and a lack of protected bike infrastructure. Penalizing riders with lower speed limits does nothing to resolve that. It simply makes e-bike travel less practical and may push riders into more dangerous situations as they’re forced to share lanes with much faster vehicle traffic.

  This policy also risks diverting attention away from meaningful safety solutions. The city should prioritize expanding protected bike lanes, enforcing traffic violations, and improving street design. E-bike riders, particularly delivery workers, rely on safe, efficient travel. Slowing them down won’t make streets safer — better infrastructure will.

  Thank you for your consideration.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:22pm

• Michael Hassin

  The proposed 15 mph speed limit is arbitrary and capricious, the limit being based on the false notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them. Thank you for reading.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:25pm

• Concerned driver

  It is dangerous to limit cycle speeds while doing nothing about vehicular speeds or creating safe, uninterrupted, and unobscured cycle infrastructure. Oftentimes micro mobility users have to go into vehicular traffic lanes for a multitude of reasons (illegal double parked cars/trucks/etc. in cycle lanes, lack of cycle lane, damages or blocked cycle lane for construction, etc.), and forcing these users to only go 15 mph while vehicular traffic is free to go as fast as they please while ignoring traffic laws, pedestrians, and cyclists, is extremely unsafe.

  Please consider doing something about vehicular traffic (2,000 lbs minimum), or updating cycle infrastructure (or both) before wasting time and energy on speed limits for traffic that weighs less than 300lbs.

  I do not support this change and encourage the city to do something about dangerous drivers before going after cyclists.
  during the first quarter of 2025 there were 7,936 traffic injuries

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:26pm

• Vinny

  Attacking responsible ebike riders is punching down on the most vulnerable street users. Cars represent the most dangerous users, without a doubt.

  Publish any data suggesting that ebikes cause a significant number of pedestrian injuries to back up this nonsense.

  Instead, let’s actually hold drivers responsible. How do people who have racked up thousands of dollars of tickets still have a driver’s license? Car violence is normalized so the scapegoat is ebikes.

  Sure, ticket riders who ride on the sidewalk and blow through pedestrians at a red light. What does that have to do with 15MPH though? Why does a regular bike get to ride at 25, a car get to ride at 25, a motorcycle at 25, but not an ebike? It’s simply flailing and ultimately counterproductive to safe streets.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:33pm

• Adam Schwartz

  Slowing down city bikes is a bad idea.. it not the solution to the transportation problems in New York. Speeding E bikes from delivery drivers is an entirely separate issue with a separate solution. City bike riders are not causing many accidents.

  Citibime e-bike riders pay a lot of money per ride, and should not have to have the value of that ride diminished.

  In the end, the real problem is cars that are speeding. Not city bikes..

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:34pm

• Ricky Santos

  This is what I submitted:

  This proposed 15 mph is arbitrary and capricious, limit based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 1:45pm

• Erik Nilsen

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary and capricious, limit based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian deaths and injuries —is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  The speed limit for cycling should be the same as cars.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:01pm

• Sean M.

  This ruling has shown to be excessively punitive and even dangerous for Citibike riders (as they are now speed limited to 15 mph despite numerous price hikes which is fueling dangerous riding habits ), this ruling disproportionately harms those most in need for alternative micromobility solutions in a city full of cars that face little to no repercussions for the dozens of violations they commit every day, violations that are statistically more dangerous and more common than e-bike related incidents.

  Having rode Citibike before and after they implemented this 15 mph speed limit, my experience has been that the 15 mph limit is actually significantly more dangerous – the white citibikes are not fast enough to enter actual traffic flow when the bike lane is congested (which is legal) and I have witnessed white citibike riders moving much dangerous and unpredictably in order to make up for the extra costs due to the speed limit. They already were rushing before, now? It’s a madhouse in the bike lane, and there is no reprieve in traffic.

  This ruling is going to cost lives.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:07pm

• Wyatt Gorman

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary and capricious, limit based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:12pm

• Mike Woolford

  As someone who was in an accident on an e bike and injured, I believe this rule is ridiculous. A regular cyclist can easily get up to 15mph, and even 20. I do support at 25mph limit, the same limit that cars have in the city. Cyclists and pedestrians are at far greater risk from cars, than from ebikes. If safety of all ny residents is your goal, you time and money is better spent enforcing car speed limits, and protecting pedestrians and cyclists from large vehicles.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:19pm

• MICHAEL W SHERMAN

  E-bikes are basically harmless next to automobiles, and the city’s own crash and pedestrian injury stats make this clear. But this speed limit makes it much less safe to ebike and will likely lead to more injuries. Regular bikes and other vehicles illegally in the bike lanes (like mopeds and scooters) will not be similarly regulated, requiring e-bikes to break the flow of bike lane traffic, leading to more passing, increasingly the likelihood of additions injuries to both pedestrians and other bike lane users.

  Additionally, traveling safely in regular traffic, outside of bike lanes, is much safer at higher speeds. At 18-20 mph you can keep up with cars and drivers are less angry with you—go too slow and the chance of things like aggressive passing go up. You can see at places where bike lanes temporarily disappear (like smith to Jay st in downtown Brooklyn) that even non-ebike cyclists speed up when they have to join traffic, and then slow back down in bike lanes. The past few days since the citibike slowdownyou can see how non-electric bikes are passing electric citibikes in these kinds of areas—people are trying to flow with traffic to increase their safety.

  If the goal is bike lane safety, A speed limit in bike lanes (along with stricter enforcement of non-pedal assist e-bikes in bike lanes) might make sense. And more granular enforcement of the different electric bike classes would help as well. That fact that there’s no discussion of other ways to handle (the overblown) ebike dangers tells you how little the city actually thought about this rule.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:20pm

• Dez

  The proposed 15 mph limit appears arbitrary and unfounded, based on the exaggerated idea that e-bikes pose a distinct danger to pedestrians—despite their minimal role in serious injuries and fatalities. This isn’t to deny that e-bikes can cause harm or be misused, but treating them as a greater threat than motor vehicles—which are responsible for the vast majority of pedestrian deaths and injuries—fuels an irrational moral panic.

  Cars continue to be the primary danger to pedestrian safety and will remain so unless the legally mandated measures are fully enacted and reckless drivers are held accountable in proportion to the risks they pose to others.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:21pm

• Benjamin cifu

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary and capricious, based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them. Focus should not be on penalizing bikers who use ebikes to commute safely, reducing load on the streets, but instead on systems to improve the safety and organization of the thousands of delivery drivers who bike in the city. The systemic pressures on them and lack of any regulations on delivery apps lead to reckless behavior as these individuals try to make a living.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:22pm

• Andrew Yoon

  Why should e-bikes have speed governors when cars do not? A speeding car or truck is infinitely more dangerous than any e-bike. The proposed rule capriciously points the finger at those who are regularly victimized by the multi-ton metal death machines people carelessly drive 20 mph over the limit every day without consequence.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:22pm

• Kyle Watson

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary and capricious, based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:40pm

• Regina Beth Yates

  E-bikes don’t hurt people compared with cars, per the city’s own statistics. Why are cars still allowed to go 25mph?

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:43pm

• Dan Jones

  This proposed 15 mph limit is an arbitrary limit based on the notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. To enforce this rule will result in an unnecessary utilization of precious public resources. Moreover, to move the conversation about pedestrian safety away from the dominant issue problem—cars—is in appropriate. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 2:52pm

• L

  Echoing another’s comment: “This is a terrible solution to the problem. E bikes should be encouraged to go in the car lane and speeds should be slowed across the city to match class 1 + 2 ebikes (20 mph). … Build more infrastructure for non car based transport. Build more infrastructure for non motorized transport.”

  Additionally, I would like to emphasize that I’d rather the rule § 19-176 (Bicycles operation on sidewalks prohibited) be enforced than for some arbitrary speed limit to be applied. This is a real problem that endangers pedestrians.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:19pm

• Matthew Rossi

  This proposed 15 mph limit is ridiculous and based entirely on vibes instead of actual hard data. This idea that e-bikes (especially pedal-assist e-bikes) represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities, is not grounded in the reality of the data that continues to show motor vehicles as the overwhelming majority of pedestrian injuries and death. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but this ruling ignores the massive elephant in the room that motor vehicles have and continue to be the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets. Until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented, and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them, this will continue to be the case.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:22pm

• Marco Nieves

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary and capricious, limit based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:29pm

• Riccardo Alberto Santoni

  It’s egregious to impose such a limit on the form of transportation attributed to some of the lowest number of traffic accidents in NYC.

  To consider them as more dangerous than regular motor vehicles is a farce, causing community panic and discourse over a non issue. This will plainly discourage micro mobility for no good reason.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:30pm

• Graham Smith

  This is a ridiculous and alarmist rule. According to the cities own data, in 2023 there were 244 fatalities involving cars and trucks. During that same period there were 8 fatalities involving just bicycles. This is an imaginary problem – mopeds in bike lanes are NOT the same thing as electric bicycles. Limiting the speed to 15mph just makes them more dangerous to ride in traffic which is ALREADY the cause of 95% of road deaths.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:32pm

• Angel Umpierre

  This rule does nothing to increase street safety as the data overwhelmingly shows that a majority of injuries and deaths on city streets are caused by the drivers of cars and trucks. We can make streets safer if we lowered the speeds for all vehicles and created more wide protected bike lanes so that all users can travel across the city safely.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:36pm

• Nicholas Rogers

  The proposed 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes in NYC is both impractical and out of touch with how e-bikes are designed and used in both NYC and across the US. Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes (both legal and widely used) are manufactured to reach assisted speeds of up to 20 mph, while Class 3 models go up to 28 mph. These categories are federally recognized and form the backbone of e-bike regulation and sales throughout the country.

  Setting a 15 mph limit effectively criminalizes the use of nearly every commercially available e-bike on the market, including those legally purchased and operated under existing rules. It also creates an unreasonable enforcement burden and confusion for both riders and law enforcement.

  A 20 mph limit would strike a far more reasonable balance between safety and practicality. It aligns with current Class 1 and 2 specs, encourages compliance, and preserves the utility and viability of e-bikes as a real transportation alternative. Arbitrary limitations that ignore technological norms only discourage sustainable mobility and punish responsible riders.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:42pm

• Zach

  This law is terrible.

  I, and many of my employees, use Citibike e-bikes to commute to work. But the new speed limit imposed on e-bikes makes this a less efficient and more dangerous way to travel. The new inability to keep up with flow of traffic (as well as other, unregulated e-bikes used by delivery drivers that move at faster speeds, all within the bike lane) makes it harder to avoid erratic movements from cars and commute safely.

  These e-Citibikes are the best part of NYC. Please don’t take ruin them.

  Zach

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:46pm

• Zach

  eBikes are honestly my favorite thing about living in NYC. Please don’t make them worse. I commute every single day on them.

  Zach

  Comment added June 28, 2025 3:47pm

• Samantha Perez

  Limiting e-bike speed to 15 MPH puts more people in danger than helping! Living in outer Queens with not much bike infrastructure, riding on the road next to cars feels much dangerous when going at slower speeds. Along with Citi Bike not lowering their prices while decreasing speed makes it feel twice as worse.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:09pm

• Elliot Cole

  Stop the fighting against bikes causing pedestrian injuries! Cars are the main issue and the we should instead focus on more punishment against drivers causing pedestrian injuries. Limiting e-bikes to 15mph would lead for more bikers injuries because of wreckless drivers.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:14pm

• Jason Kilkenny

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary capricious, and based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. A 15 mph limit will restrict e-bikes from being able to keep up with motor traffic, especially in areas where biking infrastructure is lacking or missing all together, and will incentivize worse bike riding behavior (i.e. riding on sidewalks). A better restriction would be the avg city speed limit of 20 mph. We should enforce existing rules and build better biking infrastructure.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:31pm

• Brendan Noah Clancy

  Hello,

  I am a queens resident. I oppose the speed limit for bikes. I think the speed limit for bikes should be the same as cars. Cars are heavier and more dangerous.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:32pm

• Eli

  I strongly oppose this rule change. E-bikes, stand-up scooters, and mopeds account for only 4.5% of all pedestrian injuries and 1.8% of all pedestrian fatalities between 2020 and 2023. There are no consequences for drivers who cause 95% of the injuries, not to mention pollution and noise. We need to incentivize biking not driving. Change the infrastructure to allow E-bikes to safely separate from cars and pedestrians, don’t punish people who choose a much safer and more sustainable way to get around.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:41pm

• nolan

  This proposal is designed to address a problem that does not exist and will have no beneficial effects to anyone.

  If you want to reduce traffic deaths and injuries, apply the 15mph limit to cars and other motor vehicles, which are responsible for 99% of deaths in the city which your own data shows.

  And enforce it strictly

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:44pm

• Julien Marchese

  Please tell me why we are implementing an arbitrary speed limit on bikes while the vast majority of pedestrian deaths and injuries are caused by cars? I see misplaced priorities and trying to score political points instead of focusing on real issues.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 4:51pm

• John Randolph

  This is a nonsensical suggestion that does nothing to address real safety issues which are actually caused by cars, and flies in the face of logic as there is no other category of vehicles restricted to such a low speed as compared to their weight or frontal crash properties with pedestrians.

  All stories about bicycles are about something that “almost” occurred. This is because in reality pedestrians and bicycles freely mix on streets.

  Stories of serious injury or death with vastly larger and heavier cars and trucks are however statistically common, as we all know.

  Besides, all non electric bicycles go faster than any proposed E speed limit.

  It’s time to stop looking for meaningless bandaids that do not address public safety and are based on personal offense and poor logic.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 5:04pm

• John Randolph

  This 15 mph speed limit only for E-bikes is a nonsensical whack-a-mole to pretending to address public street safety.

  As anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the world comprehends, cars and trucks are vastly heavier, travel at higher speeds, and injure pedestrians and other street users at much higher rates than even the most reckless E mobility users.

  However, as is in vogue right now, the grumbler voting bloc is being courted to figure out how to slow down someone else instead of figuring out how to make their lives better, more efficient, or better for public safety.

  Besides the endless logical holes (all bicycles go faster than 15 mph, the complaints are about “almost” getting hit instead of actually hit like cars/trucks, etc), there is no framework suggested for mph leeway, calibration of speedometers, etc which would be required for a robust plan even if the limit being chosen were reasonable.

  No thank you, double congestion pricing instead and street safety will improve.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 5:14pm

• Adam Shaw

  This speed limit should be set for all vehicles on the road. Cars cause far more injuries and death, and it’s dangerous for a cyclist to be unable to keep up with other traffic on the road

  Comment added June 28, 2025 6:24pm

• T.S.

  I’m fully in favor of this speed limit. This is a great first step. E-bikes should also require registration and insurance.

  Next please change enforcement to be more aggressive for all moving violations on all vehicles. Pedestrians should not have to dodge bikes, cars, and trucks who all operate with zero consequences. The charges should be criminal for all drivers.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 6:56pm

• Chris

  I’m a father raising my family in Brioklyn, where I have lived for decades. Every day, I watch cars run red lights and speed down the street — those things make me feel unsafe. An e-bike speed limit does not. It’s arbitrary, pointless, and in a world that desperately needs solutions to climate change, it actively discourages a climate positive form of mobility.

  I am strongly against these speed limits, and profoundly confused and angry about their sudden implementation. I urge the city to repeal them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 7:08pm

• Samuel R Handler

  The 15 mph speed cap rule is misguided and inappropriate. Safer streets would result from better enforcement of existing laws and improving infrastructure, not handicapping the speed of ebikes so they cannot keep up with traffic in areas where their only choice is to go with cars.

  Universal daylighting would be magnitudes more effective at keeping New Yorkers safe, but the current administration is more worried about preserving free parking than actually improving safety.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 7:27pm

• Donald Leistman

  It is absurd to put this speed limit on bikes and not apply it to cars, when cars kill and injure way more people on our streets. It makes no sense at all.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 7:32pm

• Alex Rodriguez

  Thank you for consideration,

  This proposed 15 mph is arbitrary and capricious, limit based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 8:36pm

• Jordan

  Limiting ebikes to 15mph decreases safety and slows traffic when bikers are expected to share the streets with cars. A far better tool to limit ebike speeds (and cars!) is timing lights to 15mph (which, by the way, cannot be hit in stride when the electric Citibike speed assist is capped at 15mph).

  Comment added June 28, 2025 9:38pm

• Binyamin Radensky

  Forcing a 15mph speed limit and the ebikes to ride in the street with cars is dangerous. I have had many times when a car came up behind me on a 1 way street that was sold small for them to pass and they got extremely frustrated and held the horn to get me to move out of their way. Unless we bring the cars down to 15mph as well, and use speed governor’s like you do on citibike, this will only put people in danger.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 10:43pm

• Rosa G Diaz

  I definitely agree. After getting hurt so many times, I think it’s about time there were laws for bikers too. Noone holds them accountable and they don’t pay insurance coverage to support the person they hurt. They are not supposed to ride in the sidewalk but they do, make sure they get a plate # so we can take pictures and report them too. Looking forward to a safer and cleaner streets.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 11:23pm

• Philip Reinhold

  A rule which targets bicycles for a lower speed limit than cars does not make sense, as the latter have more destructive power than the former. The only possible motivation for such a rule is to discriminate against lower income workers. Many object to running red lights, and other erratic behavior, as do I, but that is already illegal. New rules cannot substitute for enforcement.

  Comment added June 28, 2025 11:24pm

• Hazel Hulet

  There is no data to back up an arbitrary speed limit of 15mph. This would harm ebike adoption, increase pollution, cause more congestion, etc.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 12:10am

• Max Robins

  This proposed 15 mph is arbitrary and capricious, limit based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  Signed a Citi Bike Angel with 1200 rides, 1340 miles and NO accidents.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 12:32am

• Max Robins

  This proposed 15 mph is arbitrary and capricious, a limit based on the notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly tiny proportion of serious injuries. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles—the overwhelming majority of pedestrian KSIs—is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them.

  I am a Citibike Angel with 1200 rides over 1400 miles and no accidents.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 12:34am

• Charlie

  Hey, runner here. I dislike bikes as much as the next person, but this isn’t the way to do it. The issue is cars. We need to limit their speed in Manhattan; the current situation is unreal. Long-term plan needs to be removing these gigantic personal vehicles from the heart of the most walkable city in the entire country. Why are we still shooting ourself in the foot? They pollute our air and ruin our quiet, they make our streets unsafe to walk down, and they force micro-mobility like e-bikes into close quarters with pedestrians. We need to turn car lanes into bike lanes and offer incentives for able-bodied car drivers in areas connected to transit to swap to public transit and micro-mobility. We need to set a limit on both speed and vehicle size for all internal roads in Manhattan. We need to lower speed limits— and actually penalize those who chose not to follow the rules. It’s unsafe and is why people think of NYC as a shithole, honestly. So many of our problems stem from antiquated car-dominated urban planning.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 2:06am

• Caleb Edward Levine

  Bad idea.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 3:53am

• Dave Conte

  This proposed 15 mph limit is short-sighted, reactionary, and not based on any real world data. The OVERWHELMING majority of pedestrian deaths and injuries come from cars, not e-bikes. This is a stupid rule that will make things worse for people seeking an alternative to car travel. If you want to save pedestrian lives, do something about the countless drivers speeding and running red lights with no penalty. This proposed rule is a distraction from the actual causes of pedestrian death and ignores real world data. It’s insane that we’re even considering it.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 8:10am

• michael

  99% of all traffic related deaths and injuries in the city are related to cars. if mayor adams and jessica tisch cared about safety rather than fearmongering nonsense they would restrict the speeds of cars, not bikes. bikes are the cheapest and most convenient way of getting around, especially ebikes which allow the elderly and less able bodied people to take advantage of their benefits. arbitrarily restricting their speed because of culture war bullshit kills the baby in the cradle and is a stupid policy. and its even more egregious to use sammys law as a justification for this, given that sammy’s own mother has spoken out against this nonsense and said that it’s a gross misinterpretation of what she intended while advocating for speed limits. bikes dont kill or hurt anyone, cars do. enforce speed limits on cars, cars parked in crosswalks and bikelanes, cars running red lights, cars killing people. i know that yall at the DOT arent the ones responsible for this stupid decision and its 100% on the corrupt idiot we have in the mayors office right now, but yeah i hope this doesnt go thru and if it does that it’s reversed when adams loses to mamdami in november. thanks for reading!

  Comment added June 29, 2025 8:28am

• AW

  I fully support capping speed limits on e-bikes. For every good cyclist in the city, there are at least a quarter of an individual that does not know how to operate these vehicles. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to avoid a cyclist at de crosswalk. I’ve had numerous instances where a bike has almost run over myself or my dog.

  That said, cyclist speed is a drop in the bucket when it comes to concerns for pedestrian safety in the city. Drivers continually blow through red lights and disregard right of way. And while e-bikes and cyclists are a concern, the delivery drivers who blatantly speed through red lights are much more of an issue.

  While I support safety measures to cap e-bikes, it will do absolutely nothing on actual enforcement is taken against cars, delivery drivers, and the companies hiring.

  New York City should be a car, minimal, bike, heavy City. However some cyclists thinking that they do not need to adhere to the rules it needs to stop.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 8:46am

• Adam Fisher-Cox

  This proposal is not a serious effort to improve safety. First of all, regular bikes can easily go over 15 miles per hour. So why is that not a problem, but becomes a problem if that limit is reached with the help of a battery? Secondly, if speed is a danger to all road users, which it is, then the speed limit should apply to all vehicles. DOT is welcome to lower the speed limit to 15 for all vehicles wherever necessary to improve safety. Third, this rule makes people riding bikes less safe when they need to ride in car traffic, unless that car traffic is also slowed down. This proposal will force slow bikes to block car traffic, or car drivers will attempt dangerous maneuvers to get around them, decreasing safety for everyone.

  This is not a serious proposal, but rather a clearly targeted attack on e-bikes driven by a relatively small but loud minority of complaints. It’s entirely unenforceable, but even if it were possible to enforce it would do little to improve the safety of the streets as long as other, heavier vehicles can go far faster. If the perception of e-bikes is a problem because they often have closer proximity to pedestrians than cars, then it should be DOT’s job to design better bike lane and pedestrian interactions, set up green wave signal timing for bikes so that there is little incentive to run red lights, and build separate micro mobility lanes for mopeds and higher-speed e-bikes so they don’t need to mix with slower bike traffic.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 10:35am

• robin e.

  throttling e-bikes to 15mph would cause certain unsafe conditions, especially in regards to operating next to automobiles. as an occasional e-biker, i find that sometimes i need to accelerate for a short distance to evade more dangerous conditions caused by automobiles (which can kill, as opposed to ebikes, which RARELY kill other humans. )

  the recent 18mph that citibikes were throttled at is MORE than adequate.

  why would e-bikes have a speed limit that is less than autos, which, again, kill pedestrians at a rate nearly 100 to 1 compared to e-bikes.
  we already have laws preventing e-bikes from operating on a sidewalk.

  want to make e-bikes safer? add a helmet law.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 11:02am

• John Waggener

  The data is clear – cars kill people, not e-bikes. This is an arbitrary feel-good measure (for some). Limit car speeds. That will make an impact.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 11:14am

• Robert

  I am in favor of the 15mph cap on citibikes. I hope this is extended to all e-bikes. I’d like to see an argument limits them that isn’t pure whataboutism excusing the dangerous behavior of unregistered vehicles.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 1:16pm

• William Barker

  I am against lowering the speed limit for electrical bikes and scooters. The overwhelming majority of traffic deaths in the city are caused by cars not bikes. If any proposal in speed limiting is being proposed, it would only make sense if it were applied to the vehicles that actually kill people. The uptick in biking and electric biking in New York is a public boon not only for reducing traffic noise and improving air quality, but most importantly, for offering people safer, quicker ways to navigate the city. Traffic calming street improvements and more effective filtering are an effective means to reduce traffic deaths, which again, are the result of cars rather than bikes.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 2:18pm

• Cullen Chaffin

  Focus on the 2 ton bullets racing through these streets first. Cars are a blight and should be restricted before bikes.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 2:34pm

• James Mortin

  My partner cycles and as a pedestrian I find this hard to understand. She gets passed by much faster cars when she’s on a Citibike and our neighborhood doesn’t have a lot of bike lanes. she said she feels unsafe as a result. Personally, I also don’t see bikes going slower as improving my safety as a pedestrian. The issue is mostly deliverastas who I’m guessing are being underpaid and who go 30mph.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 6:03pm

• John Mandelker

  I write in firm opposition to the proposed blanket reduction of permissible speeds for e-bikes, e-scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles to 15 mph.

  1. Disproportionate focus on a statistically minor threat. E-bikes account for < 2 % of pedestrian fatalities and roughly 4 % of pedestrian injuries city-wide; motor vehicles remain the overwhelming source of serious harm. A rule that materially hobbles micromobility while leaving the principal danger – cars and trucks traveling 25-30 mph, often well above posted limits – unchecked misallocates scarce enforcement capacity.

  2. Enforcement deficits already exist:
  • Motor-vehicle infractions. Red-light running, double-parking in bike lanes, and speeding by automobiles are pervasively under-ticketed. Lowering the e-bike limit does nothing to remedy this core safety failure.
  • Current e-bike limits. The NYS-defined 20 mph ceiling for Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes is seldom policed. Creating a stricter rule that cannot be meaningfully monitored – given the lack of plates, universal VINs, or reliable radar signatures – invites selective or arbitrary enforcement without improving compliance.
  • Illegal gas-powered mopeds in bike lanes. Combustion-engine mopeds already violate both speed and lane-of-travel statutes with near impunity. Their continued presence underscores that the issue is not the numeric limit but systematic under-enforcement.

  3. Economic and equity impacts. Tens of thousands of app-based delivery workers – disproportionately immigrant and low-income – depend on the current 20-25 mph assist to complete enough drops per shift to earn a living wage. A mandated 15 mph cap extends trip times by an estimated 25-40 %, effectively cutting hourly income while doing nothing to curtail reckless actors who will simply tamper with controllers or migrate to unregulated combustion mopeds.

  4. Climate and congestion. Micromobility substitutes for an estimated one-quarter to one-third of car trips under five miles. Slowing these devices erodes that mode shift, nudging short-distance travelers back to ride-hailing or private automobiles – exacerbating congestion, emissions, and curbside competition.

  5. Technological and regulatory mis-alignment. Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission rules, UL-certification protocols, and manufacturer designs are harmonized around 20 mph (Class 1/2) and 28 mph (Class 3) thresholds. A municipal 15 mph ceiling would strand existing inventory, confuse consumers, and impede retailers without clear safety justification.

  6. Better alternatives exist.
  • Targeted crack-downs on sidewalk riding, red-light running, and unregistered mopeds.
  • Expansion of protected bike-lane networks to separate modes by design, not wishful thinking.
  • Mandatory UL-listed battery standards to curtail the fire risk that – unlike speed – poses a demonstrably growing public-health threat.

  In sum, the proposal offers only a modest, hypothetical safety gain while imposing significant economic, environmental, and practical costs. I urge the Department to withdraw the 15 mph provision and redirect its efforts toward evidence-based, enforceable interventions that address the real vectors of harm on our streets.

  Respectfully submitted,
  John Mandelker

  Comment added June 29, 2025 7:18pm

• susan wiker

  I do not support this rule change, which won’t have an impact on pedestrian injuries and deaths. To truly reduce those, we need to regulate cars – speed limiters, increased daylighting, traffic calming measures, etc. In places where there aren’t any bike lanes, it is safer for the cyclist to match the speed of traffic. Capping ebike speeds to 15 would further endanger cyclists without having an impact on the intended outcomes.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 7:27pm

• Michael Streeter

  I am against this rule because, as others have already stated:

  1. There is no legal authority. NY VTL 1642 (26.(a)) prohibits NYC from establishing a speed limit “throughout the city” at a limit below 20 mph.
  2. A speed limit of 15mph would be dangerous to impose on ebikes that have to share the road with cars.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 8:33pm

• Motti karp

  Please don’t do this. I need e bikes to get around. Why not slow down the real danger, cars?

  Comment added June 29, 2025 8:44pm

• Jonathan Goren

  This proposed rule is predatory, unenforceable, and does not help solve the safety issue on our streets. If the City actually wants to solve street violence they need to commit to building out safe infrastructure for all users – not just focus on cars as they are doing now. This proposed rule does nothing for the thing that cause the disproportionate amount of causalities and injuries: cars. Instead of further marginalizing cyclists the city should limit all vehicles to 15mph, instead of just bikes. Don’t say you care about safety and then propose rules that pander to the extreme and are not based on any data. Again if the city actually wanted to prevent causalities they would limit all vehicles (especially the 2+ ton metal boxes that can KILL and MAIME the most vulnerable streets users) to 15mph, not just e-bikes.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 8:52pm

• Abby Schroering

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added June 29, 2025 10:10pm

• Pedaling is good for you!

  I am writing in support of limiting the speeds of e-bikes, electric scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles to 15mph. I also request that as long as these vehicles are permitted to be driven in cyclists’ infrastructure, a limit on acceleration also be implemented to bring these vehicles in line with the acceleration of regular bikers.

  I have been riding a bike in NYC on a daily basis for decades. Our streets and cycling infrastructure have never been more dangerous or chaotic.

  Those who claim there should not be such regulations for e-bikes “because cars are more dangerous” are conveniently overlooking the fact that there are not cars on our bridge bike paths and greenways. These paths used to be joyful and largely safe bike-riding havens, where a wide range of cyclists could be comfortable. These paths- and all cyclists’ infrastructure- are now overrun by aggressive and inexperienced drivers of powered vehicles. This is a great loss for our city and our safety.

  If e-bikes continue to be allowed to use cyclists’ infrastructure, they should be forced to slow down. Citibikes didn’t used to go so fast and they don’t need to now. For everyone in NYC, please slow them down.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 10:13pm

• Frank Isaacs

  This rule should not be passed. My e-bike is not the problem. In the first four months of 2025, e-bikers injured 18 people in NYC. In that same period, cars injured more than 2,000 people.

  This rule would induce people to take more trips in private cars, which are more dangerous, polluting, and expensive than e-bikes. When an e-bike hits somebody, they usually get banged up. When a car hits somebody, they are frequently maimed or killed, as just happened to an eight-year-old boy on Eastern Parkway.

  The solution is obvious: regulate the apps. Citibikers should be able to unlock 18 mph rides if they log several hours of safe rides at a slower speed. DoorDash, Uber Eats etc. can be forced to make delivery riders take photos of their ride every half-hour to ensure they aren’t using illegal scooters, and use GPS to penalize those who go the wrong way down one-way streets.

  A better future is possible, Mr Mastro and Mr Rodriguez. Please show the courage to confront the delivery apps that encourage reckless behavior by their contractor armies, not everyday New Yorkers using e-bikes to nimbly and safely navigate our streets.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 11:48pm

• IC

  The proposed 15 MPH speed limit on e-bikes is unnecessary, counterproductive, and ignores how people actually move through the city. These bikes are already speed-limited and designed for safe urban use; lowering the cap further would make them less practical, discourage ridership, and undermine the city’s goals around sustainable, accessible transit. Pedal bikes routinely exceed 15 MPH, and cars do so by far — singling out e bikes makes no sense. If safety is the priority, focus on better infrastructure and enforcement, not arbitrary restrictions on one of NYC’s most successful transportation options.

  Comment added June 29, 2025 11:59pm

• Hannah M

  I’m a parent who brings my small child to school by ebike. I have a speedometer. 15mph is slower than regular cyclists, and it’s a hazard to be forcibly slow when required to share a lane with cars.
  This feels like it’s intended to force my family out of commuting by bike – not keep us safe.
  As someone who spends a lot of time as both a cyclist and pedestrian worrying about the safety of my kid – I only encounter issues with cars, not ebikes. I don’t mind an ebike speed limit if it’s not arbitrarily slow.
  Please enforce traffic laws and cars constantly in the bike lane, and let bikes go up to 20mph

  Comment added June 30, 2025 6:12am

• Adrian Horczak

  If this speed restriction was for motor vehicles, I’d be all for it! People riding small, environmentally friendly e-bikes are capable of causing minimal harm. Just look at the data about what types of vehicles cause serious injuries and deaths. I am against this rule change because it will encourage people to use mopeds and cars instead of the less dangerous bikes and scooters.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 8:55am

• John N Bliton

  15mph is reasonable. E bikes are motor vehicles. There are many structural factors that make higher speeds on human powered vehicles less concerning – people who can pedal that fast are experienced in general.

  15mph is especially reasonable for citibike.

  The people who I worry about are the delivery drivers who make a living doing it – the speed limits may be harder on them. The speed limit should not apply to anyone with a motorcycle endorsement on their license who are riding in the road.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 9:00am

• MA

  I’m firmly against this proposal. Between 2020 and 2023, e-bikes and scooters were involved in fewer than 4.5% of all pedestrian injuries and just 1.8% of pedestrian deaths. Meanwhile, drivers are responsible for 95% of these incidents and face little to no accountability — all while generating noise and pollution. Instead of penalizing people who pick a cleaner, safer mode of travel, we should build better infrastructure that keeps e-bikes separate from both cars and foot traffic and encourages biking over driving.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 9:29am

• James LaVela

  I’m writing to oppose the proposed rule to reduce the speed limit on electric-powered micromibility (electric assist bicycles, e-scooters, and pedal-assist bicycles). It makes no sense that under this proposed rule, that bicycles and cars will operate on the same roads but will be subject to different speed limits and consequences. In 2024, car and truck drivers killed 113 pedestrians in NYC compared to one pedestrian death by collision with an e-bike. It’s nonsensical to ignore that under this rule, an e-bike would need to operate at a lower speed limit than a car on the same street. What we need instead is level-headed rules, such as a 20-mph speed limit for ALL vehicles on our NYC streets. The proposed rule is misguided and does not address actual safety hazards on our city streets, such as speeding SUVs, trucks, and other motor vehicles that have a significantly higher probability of killing pedestrians at unsafe speeds.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 9:57am

• Michael Shafland

  The 15mph limit is arbitrary, pointless, and hurts the climate and transportation goals of the city. I have never seen any real issues with e-citibikes. Cars kills 200+ New Yorkers annually. The city should look at requiring speed limiters for cars operated in NYC. Citibike allows New Yorkers to get around without causing congestion, pollution, or significant danger to other New Yorkers that cars do. We should be encouraging their use, not arbitrarily slowing them down. I urge the city to reject this rule which has no basis in fact, evidence, or global best practices.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 9:59am

• Jesse Morrow

  I bike daily from Brooklyn to Manhattan, sometimes on my personal bike and sometimes on a Citi e-bike. This rule change does not address the actual dangers of traffic accidents that pedestrians and cyclists face. Yes, there could be better behavior by many cyclists when encountering pedestrians at crosswalks, but this contributes to a tiny fraction of accidents. Cars drive through the city with impunity, running red lights and stop signs, and KILLING hundreds of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists every year.
  I oppose any rule change that singles out cyclists or e-bike riders if there is not a proportional action to reduce the needless traffic fatalities caused by cars in this city.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 10:01am

• Kristy Bar

  I bike to work in the summer. Ever since the change in policy, I’ve heard stories of people on regular pedal bikes, not e-bikes, getting criminal tickets when they weren’t even breaking a law. They were sitting at a traffic light or just biking along the road and they were stopped. I am now scared to bike to work. This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added June 30, 2025 10:46am

• Katya Willard

  Please do not limit e-bikes to 15 mph. If we want to limit speeds, please place speed limiters on cars, who are responsible for 99% of all traffic fatalities in NYC.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 11:03am

• Chris R

  I do not support this proposal. I use an e-bike to commute to my job and for many other transportation uses around the city.

  This is such a completely unserious policy proposal. The city’s own data shows that by a significant margin, the harms on our streets are caused by cars and trucks. People are being maimed and killed by cars and trucks every day, with nary a proposal from city hall to reduce their speed limit. There certainly have been injuries caused by e-bike riders and those should not be ignored, but this policy proposal makes it clear that the city does not want to do the real work in trying to reduce potential harms caused by e-bike riders.

  If this administration were serious about reducing pedestrian interactions with e-bike riders, then it would work to provide more grade-separated bike lanes where bicycles and e-bikes could ride safely separated from other modes.

  If this administration were serious about reducing the harms on our streets generally, then it would reduce the speed of car traffic across the 5 boroughs, push Albany for more speed cameras, force the NYPD to hold dangerous drivers accountable for endangering the lives of New Yorkers, implement universal daylighting, install protective bollards and jersey barriers to protect pedestrians and bikers, install chicanes in neighborhood streets, and many more options proposed by thousands of dedicated activists for many decades now.

  But it’s clear that the city’s proposal is to blame e-bikers for the harms of cars and trucks. This will only add to the dangers experienced by the city’s e-bike delivery workforce as they will continue to be in constant peril from the rampant car violence on our streets but also in double jeopardy as they are hunted down by NYPD (and handed over to ICE) for the terrible crime of trying to deliver food over 15 MPH.

  What a joke.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 11:10am

• Amy Chin

  I oppose this proposal. More efforts should be focused on improving safety for bicyclists including e-cyclists instead of measures that punish and discourage their use.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 11:18am

• Rolando Penate

  This proposed 15 mph limit is arbitrary and disproportionately punishes micromobility users based on the preposterous notion that e-bikes represent a unique threat to pedestrian safety, despite accounting for a vanishingly small proportion of serious injuries and fatalities. This is not to say that e-bikes cannot cause harm, or be used irresponsibly, but to elevate them above motor vehicles, which cause the overwhelming majority of pedestrian deaths and injuries, is to promote a moral panic not rooted in reality. Cars remain the dominant threat to pedestrian safety on our streets and will remain so until the legally required actions outlined in the Streets Master Plan are fully implemented and reckless drivers face consequences proportional to the danger they impose on everyone around them. Will this also reduce the speed limit for cars to 15 mph?

  Comment added June 30, 2025 11:27am

• Nathanael Lane

  I oppose this rule change. The proposal is disturbing in its irrationality. Going by the city’s own reporting, e-bikes are responsible for only a tiny fraction of pedestrian injuries and fatalities. If pedestrian safety were truly a serious concern, we would be working to take automobiles—dangerous, loud, polluting— off of the streets, and encouraging increased use of personal mobility platforms rather than trying to restrict them with convoluted rules like maintaining dual speed limits for different classes of vehicle on the same roads and bike lanes. The proper way to address e-bike safety issues is to change the infrastructure to allow all micromobility vehicles to safely separate from both cars and pedestrians.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 12:05pm

• Chris G

  The hypocrisy is on full display here. For all those saying getting hit by a bike at 15mph would kill someone, I wonder what a 2 ton, F150 with massive blind spots blind spots would do going 25 mph, which is the current city wide speed limit. People have no problem with cars blowing reds, speeding down streets, and stopped in the middle of crosswalks but lose their mind when a bike goes a little too fast. For those of us that don’t own a car and rely on a bike to get around and get to work, this severely impacts the time it takes to get anywhere. It makes the safer, more environmentally friendly, and healthier transit option not viable for long trips. Statistically, bikes cause 1/100 the injuries and even fewer deaths than cars according to the DOTs own data. So how about every street every vehicle is limited to 15 miles an hour? But of course we all know that’s ridiculous.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 1:39pm

• Geofrey Hill

  This is an arbitarty rule that targets bikes when cars cause orders of magnatude more incidents in our city. This is a political stunt to attempt to garner support from car owners without increasing safety. In 2024, 121 pedestrians were killed by cars. In that same time 3 were killed by vechicals that would be covered by this proposal. It is a hallow gesture while cars kill people.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 2:34pm

• sandye fern renz

  There should not be criminal summonses for minor bike violations. Cycling is not criminal. I feel that comparing driving a huge machine like a car and facing no criminal actions after running down a 7 year old is preposterous in the face of saying riding a bike can bring criminal action.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 5:10pm

• Eva

  Setting a 15mph speed limit for ebikes is just criminalizing people who are using a mode of transportation that is reducing congestion and ghg emissions. Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  As a person who rides a cargo bike and brings 2 kids around, I am opposed to the 15 mph speed limit. You should be incentivizing people to ride bikes more, not less! This is such a a short sighted idea and just kowtows to biased fears.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 6:57pm

• Ethan Andersen

  I vehemently oppose the proposed speed limit reduction. Recently, the city has lowered the quality of life for bikers in the city while drivers continue to injure and kill pedestrians at an appalling rate. Instead, focus on building quality infrastructure for bikers and pedestrians.

  Comment added June 30, 2025 11:10pm

• Luca

  It’s absolutely ridiculous an e-bike is limited to a speed less than I can run! In fact if you took a normal bike you can pedal faster than an ebike now easily! Why should I be limited on a straight road with no one on it while cars fly by, citi-bikes barely let you pedal faster than the max even if you try.

  Also this law does nothing to stop non-citi bikes which are way faster than citi-bikes. It accomplishes nothing but make it harder for people to get to work.

  Comment added July 1, 2025 4:19am

• Daniel Tainow

  We should enforce car and truck speeding (and take the speed limit down to 20 mph for all road users), failure to yield, and running red lights before we change any rules for any bicycles!

  Citibike has already caved to the Mayor’s attack on micro mobility and it has made e-bike riders less safe when, for safety reasons, we have to leave the bike lane and enter the regular lane with cars speeding at us at 35 miles per hour and faster.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 1, 2025 7:16am

• Erin Miller

  The proposed 15 MPH limit on e-bikes is plain silly in a city where the overwhelming majority of traffic violence is from motor vehicles which are subject to no such limit. This is an embarrassing misuse of resources, it will help the NYPD and ICE collaborate by criminalizing migrant communities, and it will do nothing to make our streets safer. Do better.

  Comment added July 1, 2025 1:11pm

• Justin Pocta

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  I am not afraid of bikers. I am afraid of drivers of cars, trucks, 1 ton vehicles running red lights and speeding constantly, of drivers parking in bike lanes and forcing me into traffic or turning into me without yielding or paying attention. Get your priorities straight and actually protect new yorkers.

  Comment added July 1, 2025 7:10pm

• Casper Messmann

  The proposed speed limit is an arbitrary restriction not rooted in the reality of traffic danger. Bicycles of all kinds are responsible for a minuscule fraction of serious injuries and fatalities on our streets. To impose this speed restriction while allowing motor vehicles, which are orders of magnitude larger, heavier, and more dangerous, to continue speeding far faster and unchecked, makes clear that it is not about promoting safety. Rather, it’s a response to mass hysteria around the dangers of e-bikes.
  Decisions about speed restrictions should be rooted firmly in data, not drafted hastily in order to cater to the whims of a few loud, uninformed voices.
  The reality is that moving people out of cars and onto bikes and other forms of transport makes our city safer for everyone, and this speed restriction will mean fewer people make that choice.
  Moreover, considering the state of bicycle infrastructure is wholly inadequate and disgraceful, people on bikes are constantly forced into dangerous car lanes, where being able to keep up with vehicle traffic is necessary for safety.
  A 15mph speed limit for e-bikes makes these situations far more dangerous by creating a large speed differential between cars and bikes, in fact creating more unsafe situations on our streets.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 1:00am

• Ricardo Toxqui

  Yo no estoy de acuerdo con las reglas de bajar la velocidad .por qué eso va afectar mucho .la comida llegará muy tarde y fría el cliente va a estar molesto y yo estaré en problemas con la aplicación que trabajo. el por qué me van a desir que voy muy lento pienso yo que no es un buen plan el reducir la velocidad

  Comment added July 2, 2025 10:45am

• Ricardo Toxqui

  Yo no estoy de acuerdo con reducir la velocidad yo trabajo para una aplicación que se llama Relay lo cual son muy estrictos y al llegar tarde por lo lento tengan por seguro que me van a blockear mi cuenta y me quedaré sin trabajo

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:02am

• Ricardo Toxqui

  Estoy en desacuerdo con esta ley que quieren poner afectaría mucho la industria

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:46am

• Jose

  No apruebo está ley porque me va costar mucho tiempo.en hacer mi trabajo .las companias excijen que la orden vaya rapido nos dan un tiempo para hacer la entrega .y la policía va a tener más poder para dar ticket .

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:50am

• DAUD HOSSAIN

  I m a delivery worker and I m against this proposal.
  I don’t like this policy

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:50am

• Md abu bakar siddique

  I am a delivery worker. We are not agree 15 miles per hour in nyc .
  Because 15 miles is like walking. If nyc make 15 miles rules me and another drivers can’t deliver food in on time.It’s difficult . Because if 15 miles is fixed then customers will give report for delay. Then delivery companies deactivate our account for delay .

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:52am

• Luis

  Yo soy deliverista desde 20 años no quiero que aprobé esta ley 15mh voy ser perjudicado por los tikes y las compañías exsigen entregar a tiempo las ordenes

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:53am

• Loi

  Tengo aproximadamente 7 años de trabajar como Deliveristas en la ciudad de New York, No estoy de acuerdo con el cambio de velocidad de 25 a 15 millas para las bicicletas electrónicas sería algo muy lento y estresante para realizar un trabajo de entrega de comida ya q los clientes y las compañías siempre están presionando que quieren q se entregue rápido y en tiempo la comida, así como la policía tendría otro motivo más para ponernos tickets aparte de los que ya nos ponen.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:53am

• Elias

  Yo soy un trabajador de delivery y yo creo que esta iniciativa es muy negativa para nosotros como trabajadores ya que generara una impactacion con la otorgamiento de multas

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:54am

• piash chandra kuri

  I am a delivery worker and i am against this proposal
  this is gona make my work harder and give the police to much power,
  i gone a spend all my income paying this tickets
  we need delivery company been response
  the delavery time.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:54am

• Kevin ajbal

  Estoy trabajando 5 años trabajando repartiendo comida no estoy de acuerdo esta ley 15 km por hora

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:54am

• Eliseo orozco

  Yo soy delivrista ase 8 an̈os trabajo doordash relay uber east y no estoy de acuerdo con esta ley porque la policia nos va a poner toket criminal

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:54am

• Firoj Alam

  I am delivery worker and i am Against this proposal because this initiative is gonna impact negatively the delivery industry and gove more power to the police hust to punish unfairly

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:54am

• Lucas

  Esa iniciativa es muy negativa soy deliverysta por mucho tiempo y esa iniciativa afectaría la economía industria de los repartidores ya que las compañías presionan mucho para entregar rápido y si no nos desactiven es mejor que nos den más infraestructuras y más seguridad para trabajar.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:54am

• Angelo Cabrera

  Tengo 6 meses trabajando con entregas y lo veo injusto la reducción de velocidad en la ciudad, los más afectados somos los repartidores.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:55am

• Tajul Islam

  i am delivery worker I do not support this rule change to 15 mph. I use my e-bike to get around the city, and this rule will make my life so much harder.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:55am

• Antonio Solís

  Soy Deliverista desde hace 5 años e trabajo con DoorDash Uber etc y estoy en total desacuerdo ya que los policías nos ponen tickets y nos persiguen como vil delincuentes estoy en desacuerdo

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:55am

• Md Najmul Islam

  I’m disagree with this initiative that’s gonna affect negatively to delivery workers who already haven’t enough rights in NYC

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:56am

• ABDOU SARR

  I’m a delivery driver living in NY I don’t support this proposal because that’s gonna give a lot of power the police to abuse giving criminal ticket to us ,the police don’t have enough technology to determine our speed,the app putting pressions on delivery driver without knowing the street reality and if take more time to delivery the food you’ll loose you app by being deactivated.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:57am

• omar

  i am a delivery worker and We don’t agree with this. It’s a bad rule for everyone.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:57am

• Md Mazharul islam

  I am delivery worker in door dash grubhub I totally disagree that this law passes

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:57am

• NAHIDUL ISLAM

  HI…My name nahidul islam..i am delivery workers..i just inform that..we are try to follow rules so why city take action for spreed…i see some car drivers break rules.. So i thik The NYC DOT’s proposed rule to cap e-bike and scooter speeds at 15 MPH is a band-aid and insults the intelligence.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 12:00pm

• Loi

  Tengo aproximadamente 7 años de hacer entregas de comida en la ciudad de New York, no estoy de acuerdo con el cambio de 25 a 15 millas de velocidad para bicicletas electrónica en virtud q sería algo muy lento y estresante para recoger y llevar la comida a los clientes ya q los clientes y las compañías quieren que se lleve la comida rápido y en tiempo establecido, además la policía tendría otro motivo mas para ver cómo nos pone tickets además de los otros motivos por los cuales siempre están pendientes para ponernos ticket criminalizándonos a cómo de lugar.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 12:07pm

• Mamadou Cellou Balde

  I’m a delivery worker and I don’t support this proposal because with this speed we won’t be able to deliver the order that we got on time to the customer because the company putting pressure on us to go faster and faster and if you don’t do it you gonna be deactivated .

  Comment added July 2, 2025 12:24pm

• Joanthan Bines

  I write as a Brooklyn resident, bike and e-bike rider, and citizen concerned about safety and climate change to STRONGLY OPPOSE THE 15 MPH LIMIT ON EBIKES and OPPOSE INCREASED ENFORCEMENT TARGETED AT BIKE RIDERS THROUGH CRIMINAL SUMMONSES.

  Statistics clearly show that vehicles — traveling at rates of 40MPH and more on my own street, Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn — are responsible for the overwhelming majority of traffic related accidents and deaths in this city. Moreover, encouraging bike riding reduces emissions from vehicles. With limited resources available. we MUST FOCUS ON THE REAL PROBLEM: CARS AND DRIVERS

  Leave the bikes alone — I know bikers can be jerks, but the statistics on traffic accidents/deaths don’t lie. It’s time to crack down on speeding cars and unsafe driving and LEAVE BIKERS IN PEACE

  Comment added July 2, 2025 1:13pm

• Tanya Pollard

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 2, 2025 1:50pm

• Jordan D

  Every single day, I watch cars run red lights, turn illegally, drive into bike lanes, double park dangerously, crash into each other, or worse, hit pedestrians and cyclists. Thousands – count it – thousands of New Yorkers are injured every year by cars. Over two hundred pedestrians are killed every year by cars.

  Yet, the priorities of this lame-duck administration are to make political hay over e-bikes. E-bikes deliver our food. E-bikes move people from borough to borough without causing traffic jams. E-bikes didn’t kill 251 pedestrians last year. Cars did.

  This arbitrary limitation on speed is a fig leaf to over-police cyclists, attack immigrant communities, and make car-driving a wedge issue in city politics. It has nothing to do with safety.

  If Eric Adams wants to celebrate driving so much, he can go back to New Jersey, where he belongs.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 2:40pm

• José corona

  Estoy en desacuerdo con esta iniciativa afecta a la comunidad que rueda en bicicleta y que le brinda servicio de comida a la comunidad y las aplicaciones de delivery hacen mucha presión para entregar la comida, no estoy de acuerdo fuera esa ley

  Comment added July 2, 2025 5:39pm

• Guillermo

  Esta initiative afecta negativamente Ala comunidad y alos servicios en general

  Comment added July 2, 2025 5:42pm

• David Jiguan

  Esta idea solamente le va a entregar poder a la policía para poner más tickets de los que pone en estos tiempos, quiere decir que seremos más castigados y más perseguidos la mayoría que son inmigrantes de clase trabajadora que hacemos entregas y servicios a la comunidad en Nueva York

  Comment added July 2, 2025 5:47pm

• Andrew Green

  This lopsided enforcement is not designed with safety in mind. The idea that a person on a bike represents a greater threat to the life of pedestrians than an SUV weighing a ton and traveling at speeds beyond anything a person on a bike could muster is of course ludicrous.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 5:54pm

• E ric Zimiles

  If you’re going to criminalize speeding for e bikes then we should have the death penalty for motor vehicle drivers who kill people (including cops)

  Comment added July 2, 2025 5:59pm

• Giancarlo Pancheri

  It doesn’t make sense to have a speed limit for bikes that’s lower than a speed limit for cars, make them the same don’t have two.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 6:06pm

• Alexis Akre

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 2, 2025 6:11pm

• Roger Schwed

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the e-bikes to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 25+ mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we need police to focus on the actual dangerous behavior: riding the wrong way or failing to yield to pedestrians. Addressing those two behaviors is appropriate and will do wonders for pedestrian safety. Speeding tickets and red light tickets for e-bikes will do very little for safety, but will absolutely discourage people from biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users. It will also needlessly put generally law-abiding New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 6:11pm

• Alaina Kneiling

  I do not support the 15MPH bike speed limit. I do support protected bike lanes that keep both cyclists and pedestrians and drivers safe.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 6:14pm

• Andres Salomon

  Let me get this straight.. If ebikes are forced to bike in traffic due to a lack of dedicated safe bike lane, and have to keep up with cars (which have a speed limit of 25mph or greater, and usually don’t get speeding tickets unless they’re going going at least 10mph above the speed limit), those ebike riders will get a CRIMINAL CHARGE for pedaling above 15mph? Is that right? What kind of numbskull thinks that this makes sense?

  Oh that’s right, our formerly-indicted Mayor thinks it’s a good idea.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 6:16pm

• eric alabaster

  In my opinion this is a policy change is dangerous and illogical. The police have more serious work to do. Don’t single out bike workers. An e-biker could be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike. These bikes don’t have speedometers. A two-ton truck speeding 40 mph wouldn’t warrant a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will discourage people from cycling, and won’t make streets safer. Why expose thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation – just for riding an electric bike!! No special speed limit for bikes! Why expose thousands of law abiding New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike! No to unfair bike laws! And no to special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 2, 2025 6:19pm

• Bruni Torras

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It makes no sense since cars and trucks on the very same roads can go twice as fast with no consequences!

  This is an unfair attack on bicycle riders, when bicycle riders in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities, while people in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will only put bike riders at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  Instead, we need the city to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 2, 2025 8:41pm

• Suzanne Simmons

  Please do not limit bike speed limits to 15 mph while cars continue to kill so many people each year with dangerous speeds. It is wildly illogical and will hurt all New Yorkers.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 8:46pm

• Christopher Cantwell

  Bicycles help make our city safer, healthier and more livable. It’s illogical to criminalize them. Is Mayor Adams taking instruction on cruelty and stupidity from President Trump??

  Comment added July 2, 2025 9:44pm

• Sonia

  I don’t support the idea that bikes should be penalized for going over 15mph. This would make nyc less bike friendly. E bikes have a right to be in traffic and go the speed limit. If anything, fine e-bikes for going in the bike lanes and in parks.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 10:27pm

• Jacob N. Gothia

  The rule to criminalize speeding e-bikers while only handing out slaps on the wrist to speeding drivers is ridiculous. I’m all for safety, but let’s criminalize speeding cars and trucks, which are the real danger, instead of e-bikers who are not anywhere near as likely to injure and kill people than speeding drivers.

  Comment added July 2, 2025 11:06pm

• Leighton Spencer

  I strongly oppose the creation of any laws that limit e-bikes to 15 mph in NYC. This will put cyclists in danger of road rage incidents due to the fact that cars can still go 35 mph or sometimes faster on the same exact streets. Riding a bike in NYC should be encouraged not criminalized. It is good for the planet, good for traffic congestion, and good for New Yorkers health. Don’t punish people for riding their bikes, it simply turns back to clock on the progress against climate change.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 3:41am

• Iben Falconer

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  As the parent of two young kids, I want them to be able to feel safe as pedestrians. I want to feel safe! We have almost been hit by cars way too many times. Please put your focus on cars and unsafe car drivers—not cyclists. Yes, they need to follow the rules too, but let’s talk about clear priorities!

  Comment added July 3, 2025 6:19am

• Oliver Crane

  Why are you punishing the group of people who are actively alleviating New York’s congestion issues? If the 15 mph change for Citi bikes is made permanent I’ll go back to driving mu car back and forth from work everyday. Who is pushing this backwards thinking policy?

  Comment added July 3, 2025 8:28am

• Matthew Johnson

  The potential for a cyclist to receive a criminal summons for speeding on an e-bike while “super speeders” driving SUVs receive fines is more than an injustice. The policy recklessly puts our immigrant neighbors who make a living as delivery workers into a precarious legal situation during a time when our federal government has implemented a quota for ICE arrests.

  This alone should be the basis to reject such a rule change by our quid pro quo mayor. The city has a legal obligation not to aid or assist in the enforcement of federal immigration policy. Any action that criminalizes cycling helps ICE.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 8:52am

• Andrew

  I cycle in the city for exercise and to get around almost daily, and I wholeheartedly support lowering the e-bike speed limit to 15 mph. This is in line with what European cities, who have a great cycling culture, require.

  However, this does not go far enough: require licensing and education for delivery e-bike riders. They have turned what was a growing cycling culture in this city into mayhem. The failure of the city to reign in the apps hiring them and their riders has been a disaster for pedestrian and cyclist safety.

  Build more cycling infrastructure, regulate the delivery apps, enforce law breaking (sidewalk riding, riding the wrong way, speeding), and require heavy education, insurance, and licensing for those who ride e-bikes. If you don’t want to go through this, ride a regular manual bike. When something has a full throttle and goes 30 mph, they are not bikes, they are motor vehicles and need to be treated as such.

  Some people are trying to say this will lead to less cycling, and I fully disagree. I know many people who used to ride bikes (primarily citibikes), and no longer do because they don’t feel safe riding in a bike lane with an ebike speeding faster than cars, weaving through other bikes, failing to yield, and often going the wrong way.

  Let’s fix this failure and make cycling in the city a viable option for the general public again.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 9:47am

• Mr. Nicholas Romano

  Mayor Adams is targeting New Yorkers who bike. First came orders for the NYPD to issue criminal summonses for minor violations. Now, the mayor’s proposing a 15 mph speed cap on e-bikes — while drivers race by at twice that speed on the exact same street. It puts people on bikes at risk of arrest, fines, or worse.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 10:04am

• Alan Gamboa

  The rules change sends a misleading message about where danger lies on our streets. It is not with bikes or e-bikes or mopeds, despite a common but inaccurate perception.

  There’s just no way of getting around the fact that it’s the cars that cause almost all of the injuries and death, around 250 New Yorkers killed each year. Given that we have limited time and resources, cars should continue to be the main focus of enforcement.

  If we’re talking about speed limits, I think 20mph is great for bikes and cars alike. We should design our roads so that speeding is impossible and add more cameras in high risk areas. We need universal daylighting. We need to charge car registration by size and weight at a rate that greatly discourages people from owning bloated and even more dangerous cars.

  The Adams administration sold out this City in a way that is frankly embarrassing. He has no credibility and has shown himself to be a corrupt and incompetent. He’s staffed the government with his shady cronies. Whatever his motivations for this policy, whether it’s to appease Donald Trump’s fascist immigrant crackdown or whether it’s to pander to voters in the car centric outerboroughs in an election year, we CANNOT trust Adams to have the best interests of New York citizens at heart. We must reject the Adams agenda.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 10:14am

• Abdul Malek

  This is a shortsighted and biased approach to the issue. A 5mph difference on a bike that is a fraction of the weight and force of a car is inconsequential. There can be a case for better bike infrastructure, traffic enforcement, or ticketing, but this solves none of the above and only makes one of the city’s greatest assets less appealing.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 10:27am

• R. Wilkerson

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical; not rooted in data; is being enacted by a mayor who doesn’t know the difference between a motorcycle, moped, and an e-bike; and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or being kidnapped by ICE.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. Meanwhile, people in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than 100 New Yorkers every year. It makes no sense to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. In fact, it will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users. And, again, it will force New Yorkers to waste time in court (at best!), and under threat of deportation at worst.

  It’s even more galling considering the mayor is using Sammy’s Law to enact this. Sammy’s mother, Amy Cohen, wrote a blistering op-ed about this last month, writing, “I cannot stomach the idea that Sammy’s Law has only been applied to a handful of miles of streets when it comes to slowing down the thing that is killing and injuring over 99 percent of people — disproportionately seniors and children — while the mayor, in one fell swoop, is attempting to apply it to thousands of miles of streets for e-bikes alone. The priorities are totally unjustifiable and outrageous. This political game is beyond disrespectful to me, my family, and every member of Families for Safe Streets who fought for Sammy’s Law in the first place.”

  The mayor should use his legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 11:39am

• Yahel Carmon

  I ride my kid to school on a cargo ebike, and regularly take both my kids around the city on my ebike. Setting a separate ebike speed limit versus the one listed for cars puts me and my kids in danger. Being forced to ride slower than the speed of prevailing traffic means choosing between riding safely and risking ticketing. It’s rare that traffic conditions even allow for going over 15mph, but when they do, it’s important that ebike riders be allowed to keep up.

  This 15mph speed limit is a distraction from the city’s inability to provide sufficient bike infrastructure, and inability to enforce rules against riding on sidewalks. The new limit will do nothing to make people walking on sidewalks safer, and while ebike accidents do happen, they are dwarved by the number of pedestrian deaths and injuries caused by cars.

  Please don’t take this politicized election year action, and focus on actual ways to make the city’s pedestrians and cyclists safer.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 11:44am

• Eugene Massey

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 3, 2025 11:57am

• Klaus Lessnau MD FCCP

  I would like to see a speed limit of 20 miles for all cars and all bikes and all scooters.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 12:23pm

• John Buckholz

  I live on Union St in Crown Heights. In the four years I’ve lived here, I’ve witnessed NYPD interdicting criminal behavior by a motor vehicle owner/operator within 1,000 feet of my home precisely once (for failure to display license plates). Make no mistake: there is lots of criminal behavior to interdict.

  Cars routinely run red lights at the intersection of Rogers and Union (only to end up at the red light at Eastern Parkway). Cars routinely run red lights across Eastern Parkway, frequently to make left turns across pedestrian traffic. Cars, including NYPD vehicles not displaying emergency lights, frequently speed down my block, taking advantage of the lack of speed humps and the unreasonably wide travel lanes.

  I have NEVER walked down by block and not observed at least one fraudulent and/or expired paper “plate” or fraudulent out-of-state plate.

  Our solution to this traffic violence is to crack down on bikes. Please make it make sense. Or simply maintain a commonsense speed limit of 20 MPH for Class 1 electric bicycles with pedal assist. Changing the rules for the more spatially efficient, less polluting form of transportation while turning a blind eye to the cars that are killing NYC? Insane.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 2:37pm

• Rachel

  E-bikes are much safer when they are consistent with the speed of traffic. It makes riders more vulnerable to the vehicles on the road when there is a big contrast in speed. The stigma of dangerous e-bike riders is more to do with riders who violate road rules like running red lights, riding on sidewalks, or weaving between lanes – there is no real risk posed by e-bikes through speed alone. This is punishment to everyday commuters who follow the rules of the road and are just trying to travel safely and efficiently.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 2:49pm

• Jared Smith

  We do not need to criminalize bicycling in NYC. We need to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes. And we need to prioritize the enforcement tools we do have to focus on drivers that cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 3:34pm

• Ann Peil

  Yes, Yes, Yes! E-Bikes and pedal bikes speed has to be regulated because the majority of bikers do not stop at red lights unless it is a heavy traffic area. I live in the East Village which has crazy lawless biking.

  Pedal and E-bikes should be required to stop at red lights also. This is such a hazard for pedestrians.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 3:41pm

• Ann Peil

  I want to add to my earlier comment that I think it would make streets safer if bikes (both pedal & e-bikes) would be required to stop at red lights like cars do. They pose a threat by not doing so, especially coming out of the nowhere at high speed.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 3:45pm

• Emily Jordan

  New York City is long overdue for speed restrictions for the operation of bicycles with electric assist (“e-bikes”), electric scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles on public streets. Modern e-bikes can travel at speeds of up to 28mph. Electric scooters can reach speeds of up to 25 mph for basic models and up to 60mph for high end models. There has also been an increased presence of electronic unicycles on the roads which can operate at 20-30mph for entry-level models and 50-60 mph for high end models. All of these vehicles can easily meet or exceed NYC speed limits established for cars, but are far less visible to pedestrians and other traffic making them a hazard, and their operators do not carry insurance. Common sense speed restrictions, in addition to enforcement, are desperately needed for the sake of public safety.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 3:48pm

• Liam Jeffries

  This proposal is dangerous and asinine, on multiple fronts.

  It further plays into the dangerous and cruel myth that e-cyclists are the biggest danger on NYC roads, despite ample evidence that they make up an extremely small fraction, if that, of pedestrian injuries and deaths. Drivers cause 99% of them, with e-cyclists much more likely to be the victims of traffic violence than the instigators.

  It’s patently offensive that the city is proposing this when the city has had, for several years, the legal authority to lower speed limits for cars and trucks, the actual cause of road deaths in this city, through Sammy’s Law. Mayor Adams has constantly refused to use this legal authority, despite the continued epidemic of violence caused by drivers in this city, and instead of using this he has decided to try to create new rules to punish much more vulnerable New Yorkers instead. It’s a sick joke.

  Finally, and most urgently, combined with the city’s efforts to criminalize e-bikes, this would subject immigrant and non-white New Yorkers to unnecessary court apperances at a time when the threat of unlawful disappearences by ICE against these groups is at a harrowing high. By making it easier to charge non-white e-cyclists with this speed limit, and send them to criminal court by extension, the city is willfully making them easier potential targets for ICE, an unconscionable attack by the city government on its own residents at a time when extreme protection of thrm should be the priority.

  This rule is worse than useless and would needlessly make vulnerable New Yorkers less safe for the sake of scoring cheap political points, mainly with groups who’d rather sell out their fellow New Yorkers to Republicans and fascists than help them. Please reject this.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 4:33pm

• Charlie

  This will make riding an ebike even more dangerous because we will not be able to match the flow of traffic. Ebikers need to be safer, but this rule will not accomplish that. The primary danger we need to solve for is that cars blow through red lights and crosswalks, which is far deadlier.

  Comment added July 3, 2025 8:54pm

• Christina C

  I oppose this proposal. People in cars and trucks cause far more crashes and deaths than bicycles or e-bikes. We should be focusing on making streets safer for pedestrians by reducing the speed limit for cars and actually enforcing speed limits for cars, not by targeting e-bikes. This proposal unfairly targets only e-bikes without addressing the cars going well beyond 15 mph in the same streets.

  Comment added July 4, 2025 1:12am

• Christina D

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Comment added July 4, 2025 4:45pm

• Justin Mabardi

  Everyone I know is disappointed in this decision. It not only slows down our commutes now but it costs more to get places because we are charged by time. Please reconsider — we are law abiding citizens and don’t need to be forced to lower our speeds on streets that have posted speed limits.

  Comment added July 4, 2025 8:19pm

• Sam Chan

  It feels hypocritical for the city to impose a 15 MPH limit on e-bikes, e-scooter, and pedal assist commercial bikes, when no such requirement exists for 2-ton motor vehicles. From the NYC DOT’s own data, ~99% of fatalities are caused by motor vehicles, so a 15 MPH speed limit should therefore be imposed on all city streets for all if that is the case.

  Comment added July 4, 2025 11:00pm

• Alan Du

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. Statistically, people on bikes cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. Cars and trucks kill more than a 100 New Yorkers every year and cause tens of thousands of crashes. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need New York to enact universal daylighting on our intersections and to have real enforcement for dangerous cars and trucks.

  If there must be a speed limit for cyclists, then this should be treated like a normal traffic violation that are enforced fairly, not with special targets for cyclists while illegal parking, speeding, and unsafe driving are regularly tolerated on our streets.

  Comment added July 5, 2025 1:56am

• Shelley Brevda

  The speed limit is one part of reducing the danger of e-bike throughout the city. However, there are no mechanism in place to enforce it without making it the sole function of a large portion of our NYPD.

  There is pending legislation awaiting City Council action that will partner exceptionally with this proposal. However, it is being block from a vote. It is Intro 606 – otherwise known as Priscilla’s Law. It would require registration of these e-bikes with license plates for each e-bike. That would allow the City’s cameras – along with private store security cameras, etc – to provide valid identification of e-bikes that violate this regulation and others.

  It is the time to pass Priscilla’s Law and make real safety a NYC thing

  Comment added July 5, 2025 9:41am

• Guy Bernard Lalanne

  That’s a thoughtful and timely suggestion. As micromobility devices like electric bikes, scooters, and skateboards have become more common in NYC, safety and regulation have struggled to keep pace. Your idea addresses real concerns about pedestrian safety, shared spaces, and accountability.

  Here’s how your proposed rules could be framed more formally:

  —

  Proposed NYC Rules for Motorized Micromobility Devices

  Scope: Applies to all personal transport devices (e.g., e-bikes, e-scooters, electric skateboards) capable of speeds greater than 10 mph and powered by a motor.

  1. Restricted Areas

  No operation allowed in:

  Public parks

  Sidewalks

  Pedestrian-only zones

  Exceptions may be made for low-speed mobility aids (e.g., for people with disabilities).

  2. Registration & Plates

  Devices exceeding 10 mph must:

  Be registered with the DMV or a designated city agency

  Display visible identification plates or stickers

  3. Insurance Requirement

  Owners must carry minimum liability insurance to cover injuries or property damage.

  4. Enforcement

  NYPD and park enforcement officers may:

  Issue fines for non-compliance

  Impound unregistered or uninsured devices

  Require proof of insurance and registration on demand

  5. Education & Compliance Period

  A 6-month public awareness campaign before full enforcement

  Subsidized registration for low-income individuals

  —

  Rationale:

  Pedestrian Safety: Fast-moving devices on sidewalks and in parks pose real risks, especially to children, seniors, and people with disabilities.

  Accountability: Registration and insurance provide a way to trace and manage incidents.

  Fair Use of Shared Spaces: Prioritizes walkability and recreational safety.

  —

  If you’re serious about promoting this, here are some next steps:

  1. Contact Your Local Council Member: They can sponsor or support legislation.

  2. Attend a Community Board Meeting: Raise the issue and gather feedback.

  3. Start a Petition: Public support helps push for policy change.

  4. Partner with Advocacy Groups: Groups like Transportation Alternatives or local neighborhood associations may amplify your message.

  Would you like help drafting a petition, flyer, or letter to your council member?

  Comment added July 5, 2025 9:48pm

• Charley McKenna

  As someone who first rode his bicycle on the streets of Manhattan and over its bridges in the 1960’s and who now rides the Hudson River bike path from Greenwich Village to the GWB and back five times a week, I fervently hope that the city implements a 15 MPH law as soon as possible. The majority of the traffic on that bike path are now e-bikes and e-scooters and while the most travel at a reasonable speed, there is a significant minority who go 20 to 30 MPH as they weave through the slower moving traffic. Their behavior is extremely dangerous. On our city streets, e-bikes travel at high speed going the wrong way on one-way streets and along designated bike lanes, which is a danger to both law abiding bicyclists and pedestrians.
  Why Transportation Alternatives thinks that e-bikes and scooters should be allow to travel at their top speed of 30 MPH is is beyond my comprehension. TA should be supporting pedal bikes and not spending its energy supporting people who have no consideration for pedestrians and pedal bikes as they zoom down one way streets the wrong way or speed silently along bike paths with no warning from behind that they are about to pass inches away from you at 30 MPH.
  I completely support this new law.

  Comment added July 6, 2025 1:47pm

• Omar A

  There were 121 Pedestrian fatalities in NYC in 2024 with the MAJORITY of these a result of a traffic crash involving a vehicle. Tackle the main issue and stop criminalizing bikes. Cars kill people, it is very rare that a bike does. Council members, mayor, and other new Yorkers who support this should also support cars being limited to 14mph if they actually cared about Street safety. Why have you never proposed such a law even after 1000 of deaths have occurred by vehicle solve vision zero began? In New York City, over the past decade (2014-2023), there have been seven pedestrian fatalities in collisions with cyclists, according to data from the city’s Department of Transportation.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 1:01am

• Thomas Lamadrid

  We should not limit bicycles to slower speeds than cars. Cars cause the overwhelming majority of injuries and are the real problem. Let’s focus on enforcing traffic laws on drivers of cars. That’s what will make NYC safer. Slowing down bikes will make it more dangerous for them to share the road with cars, particularly if our bike lanes our occupied by non-commuter/non-delivery bike riders on regular mechanical bikes. Stricter bike laws will also disproportionately harm lower income and immigrant workers.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 10:23am

• Nicholas O.

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 7, 2025 10:53am

• Zenaido

  La verdad estoy desacuerdo porque por la aplicación nos dan poco tiempo para recojer la comida entonces nos afectaría en la aplicación

  Comment added July 7, 2025 1:11pm

• Sage

  This will make cycling more dangerous as you cannot keep pace with traffic and a less viable alternative to driving, increasing reliance on vehicles to which cause the vast majority of accidents. Please do not lower the speed of citi e-bikes.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 1:52pm

• Tomas Gamez

  Pues lastimosamente afecta a los repartidores de comida y las compañías no les importa eso por lo tanto estoy en total desacuerdo con esta iniciativa

  Comment added July 7, 2025 2:27pm

• Michael R.

  I’m a 50-something resident of Brooklyn who commutes to Manhattan daily by bike. I strongly oppose the ARBITRARY 15mph speed limit for e-bikes. If this corrupt Administration actually cared about pedestrian safety, it would demand that the NYPD enforce speed limits and stop sign laws for cars and trucks.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 3:39pm

• Paul Gusmorino

  Stop the dangerous law breaking drivers don’t harass cyclists.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:08pm

• Mallory Thatch

  This law is incredibly unsafe and unreasonable. Cars consistently kill pedestrians and cyclists, pollute our air, and contribute to noise pollution in this city with no accountability or enforcement. How many drivers have dozens of red light camera and speeding tickets are still on the road, wreaking havoc? This unsafe and unfairly punitive law creates limits to what could be one of the safest and cleanest ways to get around the city. I rode an electric Citi Bike a few days ago and was unable to pick up speed to get around a double-parked car. This abnormal delay caused me to almost get run off the road by a box truck on a dangerous shared road in Brooklyn. I genuinely could have gone faster on a standard bike, and the limited speed could have landed me in the hospital or worse. As others have mentioned, this rule will likely cause some cyclists to feel unsafe on the road and begin riding on sidewalks, creating a dangerous environment for pedestrians. Close calls can happen even without the speed limit on e-bikes; let’s not create an additional barrier to bike safety in a city that already prioritizes cars. Create safer streets in New York City by enforcing existing laws on vehicles that will reduce the number of injuries and fatalities, and take dangerous drivers off the road.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:13pm

• Walter Ferguson

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:15pm

• Elsbet Servay

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:15pm

• Brian J. Soliwoda

  Biking is not a criminal offence. By making minor traffic infringements a “Criminal offence” the Adams administration targets our most vulnerable population of immigrant citizens who use bikes for work. I firmly DO NOT support this administrations change in biking policies and will make it know to my city council representatives.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:28pm

• Darcy Stephens

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime! Mayor Adams and his cronies should not use this platform for political gain.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:34pm

• Marc S. Glasser

  As a New Yorker who has been bicycling in this city for more than six decades (and intends to continue as long as health will allow), I must add my voice to the chorus opposing this absurd and oppressive measure.

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20 mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:37pm

• Zlatko Dimitrioski

  I strongly oppose the proposed 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes. This rule is illogical, counterproductive, and risks criminalizing essential workers—especially immigrants—by subjecting them to police enforcement that could lead to detention or deportation.

  Bicyclists in New York City are responsible for very few crashes and almost no fatalities. In contrast, drivers of cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes and kill over 100 New Yorkers annually. It makes no sense to impose a 15 mph cap—backed by potential criminal penalties—on e-bikes while allowing SUVs to legally drive 35 mph in the same lanes.

  Criminalizing biking will not make our streets safer. It will deter cycling, undermine public safety, and expose vulnerable New Yorkers to unnecessary legal risk. Research consistently shows that more biking—supported by protected infrastructure—makes streets safer for everyone.

  If we are serious about safety, the City must prioritize protected bike lanes, enforce Sammy’s Law to reduce the speed limit to 20 mph for all vehicles, and hold delivery app companies accountable for the dangerous pace they impose on workers.

  We need smart, equitable transportation policy—not speed traps for cyclists. I oppose discriminatory enforcement and reject any rule that treats biking as a crime.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:38pm

• Gregorio

  Buenas tardes yo soy deliverista, Realmente estoy encontra de las 15 millas que quieren poner la Ley 1 los clientes ponen tiempo asus ordenes, 2 Cada bloque hay semáforos, 3 para correr 15 millas es ilógico que no se va poder es absurdo estoy totalmente desacuedo con esa ley qué no tiene sentido más que quiera no va funcionar es lógico

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:45pm

• Alyson Shotz

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:47pm

• Michael J Kavanagh

  I am opposed to this rule – e bike users are safer, greener, and require less infrastructure as cars but somehow the city is deciding to crack down on them? Until I see cars getting pulled over for speeding and running red lights, I cannot see how the desire to create safe streets should be waged against e bikes.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 5:57pm

• Lawrence Block

  I went up to Albany with your organization years ago to support the 25 MPH rule for drivers. I am still a biker and a driver of a car. When driving in the car, dealing with all the electric motor bikes is overwhelming and sometimes frightening. Often, they ignore all rules and provoke dangerous conditions. I believe that the riders of electronic bikes should have to pass a road test for a license and registration. At this point, a limit on their speed would be a step in the right direction.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 7:19pm

• Hindy Schachter

  I have been walking, cycling and driving a car as a Manhattan resident for over 50 years. Safe streets are very important to me. If a 15 maximum speed for e-bike riders made any safety sense, I would be part of an enthusiastic audience supporting this change. But the proposed rule makes no sense at all. Instead, it stigmatizes one type of bike rider in a way not done to other riders or drivers of four wheeled motorized vehicles even though the overwhelming number of crash fatalities involve car and truck drivers.

  If speed is a problem, how are people safer if truck drivers have a limit of 25 but e-bike riders–and only e-bike riders have to limit their speed to 15? Why are traditional bike riders allowed to go 20 in bike lanes but not e-bike riders? It seems as if the people developing this rule are so outside of the cycle culture that they do not realize that many traditional cyclists go over that 20-mile limit.

  Why does the city want to stigmatize e-bike riders when they are the source of almost none of the crash fatalities plaguing our streets? This city should not consider implementing this rule until officials can give a rational answer to this question.

  Reflection will show that this rule will have little to no impact on street safety. Spending our time debating this issue simply deflects time from implementing the many proven design changes such as daylighting and additional wide protected bike lanes where evidence shows that change brings greater protection.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 7:25pm

• Neal

  I do not support the rule change to 15 mph. I use my e-bike to get around the city, and this rule will make my life and other’s more difficult.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 8:03pm

• Linda Kahn

  I’m a senior and use my bicycle to get around since I can’t walk far distances. Criminalizing bicyclists who are traveling at a lower speed than cars just doesn’t make sense. With criminal penalties, our delivery people are at risk of deportation, just for trying to make a living. We can’t do this! If folks want less ebikes around, maybe they should stop ordering delivery and walk to get their food themselves? You can’t criminalize the delivery guys trying to get your food to you while it’s still hot .

  Comment added July 7, 2025 8:18pm

• Alex kim

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 8:20pm

• Greg Pfadenhauer

  People in cars and trucks kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. How can you require bikers to travel under 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, when a driver can speed through neighborhood streets at 35mph without risk of even a speeding ticket?

  Comment added July 7, 2025 8:30pm

• Paul C Schickler

  The proposed rule to limit electric bikes to a speed lower than cars is arbitrary and smacks of a prejudice against such vehicles. Electric vehicles are lowering our pollution and climate footprint.
  A more useful enterprise would be expanding red light cameras and speeding cameras for cars, while fulfilling the previous commitment to expanding bike lanes.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 8:47pm

• Phillip Riback

  You are creating a special rule for bicycles that weigh 15-20 lbs and can drop in 5-10 feet, while I see cars routinely speed through red lights at 40-50 mph every time the light changes on Delancey with no consequence? Let’s favor safer ways for New Yorkers to travel.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 9:22pm

• Jeff Magness

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes, please.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 9:48pm

• Brenton D

  Before imposing new rules on cyclists, the city should first focus on enforcing existing rules for drivers of motor vehicles including speeding, running red lights, and illegal parking (for example, in bike lanes) that is more dangerous to BOTH pedestrians and drivers and runs rampant unchecked in the city.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 10:26pm

• Michael Voorwinde

  Riding bicycles in NYC should be encouraged. It is a fantastic mode of transportation that needs policies to support it and make cycling safer.

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike.

  Respectively, this policy doesn’t make sense for New York City.

  Comment added July 7, 2025 11:32pm

• scott baker

  Instead of restricting the speed of deliverista e-bikes, restrict the distance they must travel to make deliveries by imposing a mileage rate on deliveries over 1 mile, especially in retail dense midtown Manhattan. This distance surcharge – first mentioned in several articles in Streetsblog – would allow deliveristas to have more customers in a smaller area, allowing them to make a living without having to race all over the city to beat deadlines. It would reduce their contribution to traffic and support local retailers.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 5:15am

• Kenneth Kaminski

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It makes no sense to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 8, 2025 6:34am

• Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

  This is a false solution to the problem of unfair and exploitative delivery app pay and insurance structures. Deliverista is currently the most dangerous job in town because of them. Regulate the apps and 80 percent of the problem will be solved.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 6:37am

• Sarah Hughes

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed speed limits on e-bikes. I ride a small pedal assist bike around Brooklyn to take my child to school and commute to work. 15 mph limit is arbitrary and unrelated to the safety issues that cyclists and pedestrians face on our streets: that is cars! It’s inappropriate and dangerous to target cyclists over a few mph when the deadly element on our streets is cars. Bikes ease traffic, provide health benefits, and are better for the environment. You should be doing everything you can to promote cycling, not criminalizing it.

  Criminal summons could also put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet, an unthinkable risk right now.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Thank you,
  Sarah Hughes
  Flatbush

  Comment added July 8, 2025 8:52am

• Jameson Edwards

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 9:53am

• Jorge Romero

  My name is Jorge Romero, and I’m writing in opposition to the proposed policy that would criminalize e-bike riders for exceeding 15 mph.

  This change is dangerous, unfair, and deeply misguided. My wife has been nearly hit twice—once by a speeding car and once by a driver making a right turn without yielding. Those are the real threats to safety on our streets. Cars are the primary cause of injury and death on NYC roads, yet somehow we’re proposing to criminalize people riding 30-pound bikes instead of focusing on the multi-ton vehicles that do the real harm.

  E-bikes are part of the solution. They’re ecological, space-efficient, and aligned with the city’s climate and mobility goals. Penalizing riders for going slightly over 15 mph on vehicles without speedometers is not just illogical—it’s harmful. It will discourage people from riding, make streets less safe by reducing bike visibility, and expose many New Yorkers to unnecessary legal consequences, including criminal records or even deportation.

  This policy doesn’t address the real dangers on our roads. It misplaces enforcement and undermines the kind of bike-friendly, safe, and sustainable city we should be building.

  Please reject this proposal. Let’s make NYC safer by targeting reckless driving, not people on bikes.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 9:56am

• Alex F

  Limiting e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit, while not decreasing car speed limits, is counterproductive

  The speed cap will put cyclists in danger by forcibly slowing them down next to drivers in multi-ton SUVs and trucks, who cause virtually all traffic deaths and injuries, according to the City’s own traffic data. This proposal ignores the realities of traffic flow and undermines safety for both cyclists and drivers.

  This also now makes each citi bike ride more expensive, because they take longer. Each ride now costs me between 1-2 dollars extra because of the slower speed, missed stoplights, slower passing, that adds up quickly and adds to the affordability crisis Adams said he would like to fix.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 9:59am

• Eileen Leonard

  I am opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. The focus needs to be on cars and trucks in order to prevent casualties. Cars (particularly SUVs) and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. an SUV can drive 35 mph without getting a speeding ticket. Rather than penalize the e-bike rider for riding on the sidewalk, the city must continue to improve its infrastructure to include more bike lanes as it has done on First Avenue. Fewer cars would also improve bike and pedestrian safety.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 10:01am

• Daniel

  Soy deliberista y estoy en desacuerdo ya que las compañías y los policías nos van a castigar más y nos van aponer tickts y penalidaciones absurdas

  Comment added July 8, 2025 11:12am

• Mynor

  No estoy de acuerdo porque como repartidor de comida de la ciudad solo dará más poder a la policía para ponernos más tickets y criminalizarnos

  Comment added July 8, 2025 11:35am

• Silverio Lopez

  Como repartidor de la ciudad de Nueva York esto nos va afectar porque las compañías de delivery nos presionan entregando la comida rápido y nos castigan en nuestra cuenta, No estoy de acuerdo que pase esta ley

  Comment added July 8, 2025 11:35am

• Alejandro Sanchez morales

  Buenas tardes llevo trabajando asiendo delivery aproximadamente hace 5 años y estoy en desacuerdo con esta ley ya que seremos blancos de tickets y multas y desactivaciones por parte de la compañía

  Comment added July 8, 2025 11:51am

• Blake Walker

  Biking in NYC is very enjoyable even though it is very dangerous. The city turning against bicyclists rather than supporting them with safer streets is disappointing and counterintuitive.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 11:52am

• Rodrigo

  Buenas tardes soy deliverista desde hace 5 años estoy en desacuerdo con esta ley nos va a perjudicar mucho alos deliveristas

  Comment added July 8, 2025 12:22pm

• Gualberto

  Estoy en de sacuerdo Parque sibas..despacio.te pone.una una.estrella .la compania.te pone una viulacion….y tambien.la policia..si bas arriba.de 15 millas.te.para policia.para darte.un tique…

  Comment added July 8, 2025 1:34pm

• Suzanne Simmons

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. This bill makes no sense and will ultimately hurt New Yorkers who bike and recent immigrants. Bikers in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. Drivers cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. Drivers need to be held accountable for the violence and death caused by their speeding, not bikers. This rule will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for everyone, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 1:52pm

• Andrea

  No estoy de acuerdo,con n la ley que quieren poner para los delybery

  Comment added July 8, 2025 3:15pm

• Eli H

  Instead of changing the rules, and only enforcing them for Citibike riders, try regulating bike lanes. Ticket double parkers, people riding faster than the current speed limit, and cyclists stopped in the middle of bike lanes. Work to create norms for bikelanes e.g. keep right, pass left.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 3:29pm

• José Yos

  Es un mal método que quieren aplicar, es mejor que den mas instrucciones de trancito a toda persona que sircule en una bicicleta eléctrica, ya uno sabiendo las normas de tráncito es su problema ser amonestado con multas porque ya asi lo quiere, porque no es justo perjudiquen primero y sin instruir a las personas, y como repartidor nos afecta mas que que las apps nos precionan hacer una entrega rápida si no lo hacemos no amenazan con desactivarlas, por eso opino primero que instruyen con las normas de tráncito..

  Comment added July 8, 2025 5:02pm

• Jose Rodriguez

  Soy deliverista y estoy en desacuerdo yabque nos castigaran con mas tickets

  Comment added July 8, 2025 5:42pm

• Edgar miranda

  No estamos de acuerdo ya que las compañías nos precionan a entregar una orden es mejor que nos den instrucciones de tránsito para evitar accidentes y mejorar la circulación en la ciudad.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 6:15pm

• Alphonse Randolph

  How about a ticket blitz first to get reckless E-Bike Delivery workers to obey Traffic rules.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 6:50pm

• Manuel Reyes

  I oppose the proposed 15 MPH speed limit for all e-bikes and e-scooters because it unfairly punishes low-income workers. There is no public safety data proving e-bikes are a leading cause of serious injury — the majority of fatal crashes in NYC involve cars and trucks. Legally, under VTL §1642, NYC may not have the authority to enforce a citywide speed cap below 20 MPH without passing a formal local law. This rule could also make riding more dangerous by encouraging people to tamper with limiters, switch to unregulated mopeds, or leave bike lanes for traffic lanes. Enforcement would be nearly impossible without registration or license plates and would likely result in biased targeting of young riders, especially Black and brown New Yorkers. If safety is the goal, the city should focus on better infrastructure, stricter enforcement on cars, and expanding protected bike lanes — not punishing the people using clean, affordable transport. Citi Bike already has a 15 MPH cap — there is no need to force the same restriction on private riders with different needs.

  Comment added July 8, 2025 10:04pm

• Alex Sales

  No apoyo este cambio de la regla a 24 km/h. Uso mi bicicleta eléctrica para desplazarme por la ciudad.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 12:43am

• Greta

  How about getting the e-bikes, non-handicap scooters and motorcycles OFF THE SIDEWALKS first where they don’t belong to begin with ? That needs to be the rule and enforcement that you should tackle first. People are getting mowed down constantly on the sidewalks by the reckless people.

  Also – get the e-bikes off the subways! Its only a matter of time before a fire is caused inside a subway station or car.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 10:52am

• Salah Alsafarjlani

  I firmly oppose the proposed 15 mph speed cap on e-bikes. This measure is not only irrational but it actively endangers working-class New Yorkers by exposing them to criminalization and the risk of being swept into the carceral and immigration enforcement systems.

  The facts are clear: cyclists, including e-bike riders, are responsible for a minuscule number of crashes and virtually zero fatalities in New York City. Meanwhile, cars and trucks (protected by decades of policy favoring private vehicle use) are the source of tens of thousands of crashes and over a hundred deaths annually. Yet somehow, we’re entertaining a policy that penalizes the less dangerous mode of transport, while allowing SUVs to barrel down the same streets at 35 mph with impunity.

  Criminalizing biking will not make our streets safer. It will deter cycling especially among low-income, immigrant delivery workers, undermining public safety, sustainability, and equity. It risks saddling people with criminal records and subjecting them to deportation for the crime of trying to make a living or get around town efficiently.

  If we truly want safer streets, we must stop bending over backward for cars and instead prioritize infrastructure that protects cyclists. That means rapidly building out a robust, protected bike network not harassing riders. It means invoking Sammy’s Law to reduce the speed limit to 20 mph for all vehicles, not selectively punishing the most vulnerable road users. And it means regulating the exploitative delivery app companies whose business model forces workers to risk their lives to meet impossible deadlines.

  We should be encouraging biking as a vital form of sustainable, working-class transit not turning it into a pretext for surveillance and criminalization. No to speed traps for cyclists. No to NYPD crackdowns. Biking is not a crime, it’s a necessity in a city that claims to care about climate, equity, and safety.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 10:58am

• Elizabeth Denys

  My name is Elizabeth Denys, and I am a resident of Flatbush in Brooklyn who walks, bikes, and takes public transit. I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit – it is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket. I personally ride an e-bike more often when I need to bike in traffic because my neighborhood and many around it do not have safe bike infrastructure yet. Even so, I get close-passed by cars driving far above the speed limit, but it happens a lot more when I’m riding my traditional bike much slower than traffic. I have heard from others that they also choose e-bikes over traditional bicycles because they also have to do a lot of riding on streets that haven’t yet gotten dedicated, protected bike infrastructure to get to work, medical appointments, and social visits.

  Furthermore, criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse. In fact, it is difficult for New Yorkers to know if they are complying with this rule – unless you have and use an expensive bike
  computer, it’s difficult to know exactly how fast you are going. My personal pedal-assist class-1 e-bike stops assisting at 15 miles per hour, but I’m could still pedal fast after the assistance cuts out and exceed that speed… but I’d still be slower than many others, including fully non-electric traditional bicycles on the same route.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. Instead, we need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk, and implement universal daylighting so that everyone has much better visibility at intersections and can stop well before crosswalks and see if it’s safe to continue. We also need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle, not just e-bikes, on the road under Sammy’s Law and work towards goals of lower traffic neighborhood streets with filtering so everyone is safer on the road. Finally, we also need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I urge you all to oppose this rule change to create speed limits that apply only to e-bikes and focus instead on proven solutions to make everyone on the street safer.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 11:59am

• Maynor Baten

  No estoy de acuerdo con esta iniciativa porque va a afectar a nosotros los repartidores de la ciudad de Nueva York quienes somos los que ofrecemos un servicio a todas las comunidades y ahora vamos a ver cómo nos persiguen sabiendo que la ciudad no cuenta con la infraestructura ni la tecnología para implementar este proyecto de manera justa

  Comment added July 9, 2025 1:22pm

• Anthony castillo

  No estoy de acuerdo con lo que vayan a probar ya que afectará a nosotros lo deliveristas de la ciudad

  Comment added July 9, 2025 2:16pm

• Carmen Guevara

  Como repartidora de la ciudad esto solamente le dará más poder a la policía para castigar injustamente a esta industria lo que llevará a más castigos y afectará económicamente a todos los que luchamos por sobrevivir en una de las ciudades más caras del mundo

  Comment added July 9, 2025 2:18pm

• Claire Lazes

  Why are we punishing cyclists? Strongly oppose! Slowing down e-bikes and forcing longer, more complicated routes only discourages people from cycling. More connected, convenient bike lanes mean more riders and fewer cars on the road. We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone.

  Do:
  Regulate delivery app companies that pressure workers to race against the clock
  Reduce speed limits for EVERY vehicle on the road to research-backed 20 mph by fully implementing Sammy’s Law, with point-of-sale limits for e-bikes
  Accelerate street redesigns that prioritize safety

  Comment added July 9, 2025 4:08pm

• Luis Rondon

  Estoy en desacuerdo, ya que ese tipo de ley estará afectando a los drivers que conducen bicicleta, tomando en cuenta que el límite es de 25 millas en la ciudad..

  Comment added July 9, 2025 4:30pm

• Empleado

  Buenas tarde un coordinar saludo, mi comentario está contra las millas y propinas y el descontento que tenemos mediante el apoyo cuando necesitamos de soporte

  Comment added July 9, 2025 4:35pm

• Nancy Sheran

  Why is this rule limited only to commercial e-mobility vehicles? Traffic laws should be applied consistently for all motorized vehicles. E-mobility vehicles should be licensed, required to follow traffic laws, required to display a license plate, drivers should be required to pass a driving test, the speed for e-mobility vehicles should be the same as cars, and they should ride in the street with the cars, stopping on red lights and giving pedestrians the right of way.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 5:14pm

• Marcy

  Soy mujer delibrista y estoy en desacuerdo Con esta ley ya que nos perjudicará en nuestros trabajo colocándonos mas ticktes y desctivacuines

  Comment added July 9, 2025 6:03pm

• C deBen

  NYC needs to hold reckless drivers accountable, including impounding cars of repeat offenders or of those who harm a pedestrian or cyclist.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 6:35pm

• Tran Jacinto

  Dear Mayor Adams,
  I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to strongly oppose the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for “every” vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Sincerely,

  Tran Jacinto

  Comment added July 9, 2025 6:38pm

• Matthew Pius

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require bicycles to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not, and should not be, a crime!

  Comment added July 9, 2025 6:51pm

• Kassandra Sparks

  I am expressing my strong opposition to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15-mph speed limit. Not only is this proposal not backed by the data, it can put New Yorkers at risk of being unfairly arrested. And at this moment, given Trump’s immigration policies, the stakes for being arrested have never been higher.

  Cars (and really, trucks) are the primary source of crashes in New York City, not bikes. The data on this is irrefutable. That being the case, why would bikes (even e-bikes) be expected to travel at a *lower* speed limit *with* potential criminal penalties? Especially when they’re driving alongside trucks that can drive up to 35mph with no penalty at all.

  To make matters worse, if you criminalize biking, fewer people will ride bikes. Biking makes cities safer, it makes streets safer, and it’s better for our environment. New York City doesn’t need criminal penalties and lower speed limits, it needs better infrastructure for bikes! If the problem is e-bikes on sidewalks, install more bike lines. If the problem is vehicles speeding over 20 mph, enforce that law across the board. If the problem is food delivery workers, then we need local policies that penalize food delivery companies for incentivizing (and sometimes mandating) food delivery workers to ride unsafely.

  No special speed limits for cyclists! No criminal penalties for people riding bikes! Protect our cyclists and pedestrians through effective legislation!

  Comment added July 9, 2025 7:21pm

• There are better alternatives to pedestrian safety

  Since when is biking a crime? Doesn’t the city want more people biking? Whatever happened to becoming a “world-class biking city”? This rule would expose New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record and possible deportation, disincentivizing people from riding at all. It’s not like bikes have a speedometer. The major concern people have, which already keeps many people from biking, is having to share the street with heavy cars going twice as fast as them. Statistically, bikes cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. Compare this to people in cars and trucks, who cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. Who is this rule protecting? Even if this rule did as it proclaims it would and protected pedestrians, how would it be enforced? E-bikes don’t have license plates. I can only see how police encounters with and harassment of e-bike riders – the majority of whom are delivery workers – would increase.

  A better rule would be to enforce a speed limit equally across all vehicles and bikes in the city. 20 mph is a number most people seem satisfied with and is within the power of the city to do so. This 15mph rule would be dangerous with the lack of protected bike lanes in many parts of the city as e-bikers would be forced to go slower than the flow of traffic, likely with a multi-ton SUV honking at them from behind. Bike and car collisions would likely rise due to this.

  Thus, three alternatives would be more effective at keeping people safe.
  1) A universal 20 mph speed limit on all roads in the city.
  2) Protected bike lanes would keep bikes off the sidewalk and separated from both traffic and pedestrians. Other traffic and road design changes at intersections would also create safer road crossing conditions for pedestrians.
  3) Regulation of delivery apps, which are the main drivers of speeding and reckless riding. Delivery apps encourage delivery workers to violate traffic laws by threatening to deactivate their accounts if they don’t make a delivery within a certain amount of time. Deactivation is a threat to their livelihood and is exploitative. The cost of convenience is not factored into the price of delivery and is instead paid by delivery workers and everyone else who uses the road. Because of this externality, there is an overflow of demand that would be curbed if the true price of delivery convenience were revealed to the consumer. (TL;DR delivery apps make rapid delivery—which is only possible by breaking traffic laws—cheap for consumers by exploiting delivery workers. Either they stop advertising the impossible, or they make impossibly fast deliveries appropriately priced.)

  Comment added July 9, 2025 7:24pm

• Sproule Love

  It makes zero sense to have a lower speed limit for bikes than for cars. One vehicle weighs 40 pounds and one weighs 4,000 pounds. One injures someone in a crash and the other kills them. We should be encouraging people to get out of their cars and into bikes, not criminalizing the latter. Repeal the 15 mph speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 9, 2025 7:34pm

• Michael Cullen

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 8:53pm

• Jaimini Vyas

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 9, 2025 9:46pm

• Steve Chao

  Infrastructure has to come first before a bike culture can develop. It’s just like have sidewalks first before cars will stay away from the ‘sidewalk’. We need more protected bike paths. Currently, there is not 1 bike path that goes from North to South on Third Ave, Park Ave, Lexington Ave, Madison Ave. and Fifth Ave. Basically, the entire middle of Manhattan. Bikes that less space than cars thus alleviating congestion. Bikes are healthy for users thus saving healthcare costs and bikes create no pollution which once again is better for health and the environment.

  Comment added July 9, 2025 10:51pm

• Farzad Khosravi

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers

  Comment added July 9, 2025 11:20pm

• Bill Bruno

  The 15 MPH speed limit on e-bikes is a bad idea. First, there is the gross illogic of having a lower speed limit on e-bikes than on cars, despite the far greater mass of the latter and despite cars causing exponentially more traffic casualties than e-bikes do.

  It’s also less safe for the e-bikes, since it’s that much harder for them to keep pace with car/truck traffic–a situation they will have to face regularly until protected bike infrastructure becomes far more extensive than it is today.

  In conjunction with the equally disproportionate and ill-consider measure to give c-summonses to cyclists (but not car drivers), it also puts deliveristas at risk of being entangled in the criminal system and thus at risk of apprehension by ICE.

  Infrastructural changes would far better address the issue of e-bikes. Bulb-outs at intersections would force a regular slowing down of e-bikes at the point where they are most likely to cross paths with pedestrians while the institution of universal daylighting would open up lines of sight for cyclists and pedestrians.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 12:07am

• Alexander Schwarz

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 10, 2025 12:09am

• Ang Nac

  I ride a bike to make deliveries, I ride to a job, I ride to visit friends and family. I use pedal assist, regular bike and full electric.
  Bikes are vehicles and must obey current speed limits, which at 25 ot 30 MPH is more than enough. Pedal assist is limited speed by design. Regular bicycles are often going faster those guys can hit 25 to 30 easily.
  So, ticketing speeders weather car, truck or bicycle is the answer.
  If this were to pass it would be a definite vote of No Confidence for the Mayor.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 4:08am

• Daniel Starr

  All this proposal accomplishes is to give the police more reasons to arrest people of color and hard-working delivery workers. Will this be enforced in Central Park? I doubt it.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 8:50am

• David Rodeck

  I do not support this new rules. E-bikes are not the problem on our roads. The cars are out of control and driving like maniacs. As someone who only walks and takes public transportation, I am not worried about the e-bikes. I’m terrified of the cars.

  We should be doing everything we can to support cyclists of all types because every person on an e-bike is one fewer driving a car. Setting an arbitrary speed limit for e-bikes but not for cars makes it much more dangerous for cyclists. If you want to set and strictly enforce a 15 mph speed limit for drivers, now there’s an idea. But don’t pass this limit on e-bikes.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 9:56am

• Vi Go

  I am strongly against the rule change.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need our city to use legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on city streets under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 10:06am

• Isabella Vitti

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 10, 2025 10:26am

• Dawn Elane Reed

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket is often not held accountable.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 10, 2025 11:41am

• Adolfo Ávila

  Buenos días no estoy de acuerdo ya que el sistema de calificación de nosotros los repartidores de comida es basado en la pronta entrega lo cual nos genera presiones y esta velocidad prácticamente nos llevará a más sanciones, entendemos que la seguridad es importante pero no puede ser basado en regularización es más basado en educación.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 11:57am

• Daniel Devlin

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 10, 2025 12:28pm

• Noah Miterko

  Dear Commissioner Rodriguez,
  PeopleForBikes appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the New York City Department of Transportation’s proposed rule (DOT-90), which would amend Sections 4-01 and 4-06 of Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New York to impose new speed restrictions on bicycles with electric assist (“e-bikes”), electric scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles operating on City streets.
  We write in strong opposition to this proposed rule. If adopted, it would significantly undermine New York City’s progress toward cleaner, safer, and more accessible transportation options by imposing arbitrary and unnecessary speed limits on a critical category of low-emission vehicles. As the national trade association representing more than 300 U.S. bicycle businesses, including manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors of electric bicycles, PeopleForBikes urges DOT to withdraw this proposal and pursue evidence-based strategies for improving transportation safety and equity.

  About PeopleForBikes

  PeopleForBikes is a national bicycle organization and the U.S. bicycle industry’s trade association representing more than 340 bicycle industry supplier members and nearly 1.4 million individual supporters, including more than 13,000 NYC residents. Through our three areas of influence — infrastructure, policy, and participation — we accelerate the construction of safe, fun, and connected places to bike; advance pro-bike and pro-bike business legislation; and reduce barriers to welcome more people to the joys of riding a bike.

  Our Concerns with the Proposed Rule

  1. No Clear Safety Rationale or Supporting Data
  The proposed rule offers no evidence, such as crash data, injury statistics, or operational studies, to justify reducing the speed limit for e-bikes and pedal-assist commercial bicycles from 25 mph to 15 mph. Without a factual basis for the rule, its potential to improve safety is purely speculative. In fact, research shows that the greatest threats to micromobility users stem from interactions with motor vehicles, not excessive rider speed. Lowering speed limits for e-bikes on streets shared with faster-moving cars may lead to more dangerous overtaking conditions, increase sidewalk riding, and reduce safety by creating greater speed differentials between different modes.

  2. Conflict With State Law

  The proposed rule is not merely inconsistent with state law, it is prohibited. \ Under New York Vehicle and Traffic Law (VTL) § 1600, local authorities, including New York City, are explicitly barred from enacting any ordinance, rule, or regulation that is “contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter” unless expressly authorized to do so.
  While the proposed rule references VTL § 1282, which sets a 15 mph speed limit for electric scooters, that statute applies only to scooters and was adopted by the New York State Legislature, not a local agency. There is neither a comparable legislative speed limit for electric bicycles in state law nor the authority granted to NYC DOT to adopt one on its own. Speed limits are simply not a matter of local discretion. The Legislature has directly
  regulated micromobility speeds where it has seen fit, and has not delegated that power to cities. Attempting to fill that gap through administrative rulemaking exceeds the City’s authority and conflicts with the state’s comprehensive traffic code. Moreover, relying on administrative classifications or definitions under City rules cannot substitute for legislative authorization. NYC DOT’s regulatory powers under Section 2903(a) of the City Charter do not extend to matters expressly governed by state law, and DOT cannot enact rules that contradict or supplement statewide vehicle operation standards. This rule will invite legal challenges and is likely to be struck down on the basis that it unlawfully intrudes into a field reserved to state law.

  3. Arbitrary Treatment of E-Bikes vs. Human-Powered Bicycles

  The proposed rule preserves the 25 mph speed limit for “human-powered devices” while reducing the limit for e-bikes and commercial pedal-assist bicycles to 15 mph, despite the fact that New York City’s permitted e-bike classes are already speed-limited by design. Class 1 e-bikes are pedal-assist only and limited to 20 mph. Class 2 e-bikes may operate using a throttle and are also limited to 20 mph. Class 3 e-bikes are permitted to operate at speeds up to 25 mph using throttle alone. This distinction assumes – without a factual basis – that heavier e-devices are inherently less safe, but fails to account for braking capabilities, user behavior, infrastructure design, or traffic context. The rule effectively punishes users of some forms of cleaner, more efficient technology while leaving conventional bikes, which can easily exceed 15 mph, untouched. It also creates an inequitable standard for legal vehicles using the same public streets by allowing higher speeds for cars and pedal-only bicycles while restricting low-speed, space-efficient micromobility users to arbitrary limits that are unsupported by evidence or fairness.

  4. Bad Policy Precedent and Industry Harm

  New York City would be the first major U.S. city to set a uniform, street-level speed limit for e-bikes that differs from general traffic laws. While vehicle-specific speed limits occasionally appear on recreational multi-use paths, they are not the norm on public roads. Creating an e-bike-specific street speed limit sends a signal that electric bicycles are inherently dangerous or incompatible with urban mobility. That message is at odds with the City’s own goals to promote mode shift, reduce emissions, and build a connected micromobility network. Worse, it opens the door to future restrictions on conventional bikes, which often travel at speeds greater than 15mph in traffic-separated lanes and have every right to do so.

  A Better Approach

  Rather than impose a blanket speed limit that lacks justification and undermines micromobility adoption, we urge DOT to:

  – Ask the Legislature to amend New York’s E-bike laws to reflect the nationally recognized three-class definition
  – Focus on speed management for motor vehicles, which are the leading cause of roadway injuries and deaths
  – Invest in expanded protected bike infrastructure and physical traffic calming measures
  – Support education and public awareness campaigns on safe riding and
  proper device use
  – Leverage existing enforcement tools against reckless or unsafe riding behavior on a case-by-case basis

  PeopleForBikes stands ready to support DOT in these efforts, and we welcome the opportunity to work together to ensure New York City remains a national leader in transportation innovation and sustainability.

  Comment attachment
  People-for-Bikes-DOT-90-NYC-Rulemaking-Comments.pdf

  Comment added July 10, 2025 12:37pm

• Lauren Phillips

  I am a Bronx mom who bikes with her kids. I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 10, 2025 1:35pm

• Celeste Reingans-Lee

  Mayor Adams,

  No! Do not enact this policy!!!! This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Sincere regards,
  Celeste

  Comment added July 10, 2025 2:11pm

• Amaru Landrón

  This proposed rule is too heavy-handed towards people using alternative forms of transport in the city. Rather than address the root issue of lacking bike infrastructure in the city, Eric Adams would rather bring back stop-and-frisk era style over-policing. Punishing individuals (mainly black and brown bodies, not in whiter and richer neighborhoods) is not going to resolve the exploitation of deliveristas through delivery apps such as door dash, who as Kevin stated in the comment below incentivize reckless biking through their pay structure. Plus, both pedestrians and bike riders are far more likely to be victims of traffic violence- but there is clearly no effort being put in to repair the car-centric infrastructure which has exasperated this epidemic.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 2:22pm

• Maheen Alam

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mile per hour (mph) limit. While at face value, this seems like a logical proposal, the harm this rule will impose on some of the most vulnerable people in our community is too great. In addition, this speed limit does not address the largest source of traffic violence in NYC – cars and vehicles.

  A large number of delivery drivers in NYC are undocumented immigrants – many of whom have fled brutal conditions in their home country and are trying to support themselves and their families. This is a number which continues to grow every year. In light of President Trump’s draconian immigration crackdowns and ICE raids, criminalizing these hard working delivery drivers will only make our city less safe from President Trump, ICE, and the federal government.

  These food delivery companies have strict rules demanding drivers deliver food to addresses in an unrealistically short amount of time or risk termination or other punishment. This proposal would result in a system similar to “Stop-and-Frisk,” which was ruled unconstitutional in 2013. This would essentially result in an overpolicing of black and brown New Yorkers for minor traffic infractions.

  In addition, this proposal would not result in any meaningful reduction in traffic violence. Data shows that the vast majority of traffic fatalities in the city were from cars, not e-bikes. In 2023, 235 New Yorkers tragically lost their lives as a result of car crashes. In the same year, 23 New Yorkers lost their lives due to e-bike crashes. I am trying to reduce the need for cars which I believe will reduce traffic violence. Each year, accidents in NYC generally range from 95,000 to 100,000 with a serious injury happening every 3 hours. Every year, thousands suffer from life-altering disabilities, large medical bills, and difficulty attending work or school. These life-altering crashes are predominately the result of heavy car usage and the lack of proper infrastructure to reduce injuries, not the result of e-bikes. In conclusion, I believe that this proposal will not help people avoid injuries and will only hurt the most vulnerable in our communities.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 2:37pm

• Rafael DeJesus

  No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no! (Hope you got the South Park joke!) This proposal cannot be implemented. It would not help, it would only target unlucky vulnerable residents. In addition it would raise the exploitation of undocumented employees. Plus, it’s cars causing the problem, not e-bikes!

  Comment added July 10, 2025 2:43pm

• Rafael DeJesus

  This proposal cannot be implemented! It would only target unlucky, vulnerable NYC residents. As well as raise the exploitation of undocumented employees. Plus, it’s cars causing the problem, not e-bikes!

  Comment added July 10, 2025 2:45pm

• Áncelma Sanchez

  No estoy de acuerdo con este proyecto debido a que los Deliveristas se verán afectados, y les impondrán muchos tickets.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 3:20pm

• Asm Sohel Rana

  I’m not agree with this proposal, which is going to affect delivery workers also delivery apps are pushing us to go faster to deliver the food to consumers

  Comment added July 10, 2025 4:45pm

• Alejandro Rodriguez

  No estoy de acuerdo porque nos perjudica como repartidores las aplicaciones nos perciba para los repartidores es mejor que nos oriente mas en medidas de trasito en la ciudad

  Comment added July 10, 2025 4:46pm

• Anibal Enrique

  No estoy de acuerdo con bajar las millas de las vicicletas eléctricas por una parte estaría bien si las aplicaciones también bajara las millas pero así como están las aplicaciones delibery asta 10 millas así nos afecta a nosotros

  Comment added July 10, 2025 5:17pm

• Leah Retherford

  We need more bikes and bike riders to increase street safety not less. When you punish bike riders, scooters, and e-bike riders you push them towards cars. Cars already take up too much of our space, aren’t ticketed or given summons for exceeding speed limits, and do the most harm in terms of injuring pedestrians, bikers, and other drivers. I understand that this is a relatively new form of transportation and we still need to figure out how to integrate it effectively with all our other modes but putting limits on speed is not the way, unless you are going to apply the exact same rules to cars. Adding infrastructure is the right way.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 5:35pm

• L. Hanlon

  Until e-bikes and e-scooters have visible license plates, there will be no way to enforce this rule. You may just as well toss it onto the heap with the many other rules of the road that e-bikes already don’t follow.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 5:40pm

• 15 MPH Speed Limit Without Enforcement Is a Dangerous Illusion — We Need Priscilla's Law Now

  As someone with personal experience witnessing or narrowly avoiding dangerous encounters with illegally operating e-bikes and e-scooters, I must state clearly: a 15 MPH speed limit is a well-intentioned but wholly inadequate band-aid for a crisis that is already harming New Yorkers daily.

  While any regulation is better than none, the proposed rule lacks the one component that would make it effective: rider accountability. Speed limits are meaningless without enforcement. We must implement license and registration requirements for all e-vehicles and pass Priscilla’s Law (Int. 0606-2024)—legislation that would enable enforcement via traffic cameras capable of identifying riders by license plate and issuing violations.

  Currently, it is already illegal to:

  Run red lights

  Ride on sidewalks

  Go the wrong way

  Speed

  Yet these behaviors are rampant and go unpunished. Why? Because riders flee the scene and cannot be identified. Without a system of registration and automated enforcement, what will stop these same reckless riders from ignoring a 15 MPH limit? Absolutely nothing.

  Priscilla’s Law is common-sense legislation that would deter the dangerous, lawless behavior we see every day. It’s the only way this speed limit proposal can have any real-world impact. Anything short of that is merely performative—an empty gesture that will not protect pedestrians, especially vulnerable seniors, children, and disabled New Yorkers.

  Do not pass this rule without meaningful enforcement mechanisms. Pass Priscilla’s Law and demand license and registration for all e-vehicles.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 5:45pm

• Ellen Sandles

  Sure, set the speed limit at 15mph…but it is currently illegal to run red lights, ride on sidewalks, go the wrong way and these reckless behaviors are seen all around us all day – everyday! Make these vehicles identifiable with plates — Priscilla’s Law — so they are caught on cameras violating the laws, just like cars. Accountability. Until then, all these suggestions are a waste of time and show total disregard for the citizens who have to walk here and fear for their life crossing the street.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 6:03pm

• Jesus

  No estoy de acuerdo porque como repartidor nos afecta es mejor que nos orienten más en normas de tránsito para saber las normas de tránsito de la ciudad de nuewa York ya que las compañías de reparto nos preciona mucho pra entregar rápido las órdenes de comida al cliente

  Comment added July 10, 2025 6:15pm

• Colette Jennings

  There has to be licensing and registration for all e-bikes to make this work. I work around Union Square and live in the East Village. It’s terrifying walking home from work with everyone speeding, running red lights and going the wrong way with no accountability. I used to ride a bicycle everywhere but now it’s too dangerous.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 7:04pm

• Deborah M. Farley

  I wholeheartedly agree with setting a 15MPH speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters; however, without accountability for riders, this limit will be largely ineffective. We urgently need Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024 a licensing and registration system for all electric vehicles, to ensure that traffic cameras enforce the 15MPH speed limit.
  Traffic cameras can track down reckless riders by their license plates and issue tickets, helping to identify those who often flee the scene after a crash. This is not just common sense; it’s a necessary step toward creating safer streets and effective implementation of the 15 MPH speed limit.
  Right now, it’s against the law to run red lights, speed, ride on sidewalks, or travel the wrong way, yet we see these dangerous behaviors every day. It’s disturbingly rare for an e-vehicle rider to come to a stop at a red light. What will truly deter them from exceeding 15 MPH? The answer is obvious: accountability. Let’s make our roads safer and change the culture of reckless riding. Implement the 15 MPH speed limit and pass Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024

  Comment added July 10, 2025 8:26pm

• Mary Dinoski

  I am one of many frightened city residents advocating for a clear and practical solution to improve cyclist and pedestrian safety by demanding accountability for all e-bike and e-scooter riders. Imposing a 15 MPH speed limit is an essential first step. The real issue comes down to enforcement and rider accountability.

  Without proper consequences, people tend to disregard rules, and these e-bikes and e-scooters have become increasingly problematic in terms of reckless riding. Priscilla’s Law, a licensing and registration system for e-bikes and e-scooters, will create that accountability. By introducing licensing and registration, riders violating the laws can be easily identified. The ability to enforce those laws through existing traffic cameras or traffic monitoring would be a game-changer.
  Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024) mirrors how we treat cars, where license plates not only make individuals responsible but also help track behavior. This would not only limit reckless speeding but also deter dangerous habits like running red lights or riding on sidewalks.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 8:34pm

• Edward Dinoski

  I support a 15MPH speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters; however, without rider accountability, this limit will have little impact. We need to implement the licensing and registration system referred to as “Priscilla’s Law” (0606-2024) for all electric vehicles. Existing traffic cameras can easily enforce the 15MPH speed limit.
  These cameras can identify reckless riders by their license plates and issue tickets, ensuring that those who often flee the scene after a crash can also be identified. This is common-sense legislation designed to keep all residents safe.
  Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024) will help change dangerous rider behavior. Currently, it is illegal to run red lights, speed, ride on sidewalks, or go the wrong way, yet these reckless behaviors are witnessed constantly. It is rare for an e-vehicle rider to stop at a red light or stop sign. Accountability through the implementation of Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024) will discourage riders from exceeding 15 MPH and penalize those who do through identification and accountability.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 8:38pm

• Debbie George

  I back a 15MPH speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters; however, without rider accountability, this will make little difference. We must pass Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024) which would implement licensing and registration for all electric vehicles.
  This Law would enable traffic cameras to enforce the 15MPH limit by identifying the behavior of reckless riders through their license plates and issuing tickets. It would also help identify riders who frequently flee the scene of accidents.
  Establishing a speed limit with accountability is a matter of common sense. Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024) would effectively change dangerous riding behavior. Currently, it is illegal to run red lights, speed, ride on sidewalks, and go the wrong way, yet we witness these reckless behaviors every day. It is rare for an e-vehicle rider to stop at stop signs and red lights. So, what is going to prevent them from exceeding the 15 MPH speed limit? The answer is identification through a plate, registration, accountability, and common-sense legislation like Priscilla’s Law.

  Comment added July 10, 2025 8:56pm

• Barbara Blumberg

  This proposed rule does not go far enough. Existing rules for following traffic laws are barely enforced. E-bikes and non-bikes regularly flout traffic safety laws. They are on sidewalks, do not stop at lights or give way to pedestrians.
  I am in favor of reducing the speed to 15 mph, but as I observe no effort on enforcement of existing rules, it is not enough. There needs to be a comprehensive view of how ALL moving vehicles engage with road use.
  All moving vehicles should be registered and licensed. However, the key at the end is enforcement. That is the only way to prevent pedestrian casualties.
  Thank you

  Comment added July 11, 2025 5:04am

• TRANS ALT ROBOTS

  I have read through the majority of these comments and it appears that the same comments appear again and again. Verbatim. TranAlt is an organization that believes that bike riders have the right to do whatever they please. They do not bow to any restrictions. Instead of owning up to the reckless behavior of many cyclists, particularly deliveristas, they declare that these are people who need to go fast to earn a living. How about offering the following alternatives to rampant illegal actions.
  1. All companies that offer delivery services be held accountable for their deliveristas. This include both the larger Uber Eats type and those that work for one restaurant.
  2. Promote safety, not speed.
  3. Wear a vest identifying their employer.
  4. Instruction on road rules. No sidewalk riding, no riding against indicated direction of street. They should obey the same rules as cars.
  5. First offense is a warning.
  There has to be a process to get bicyclists to engage in safety.
  No matter what the Trans Alt people say, it is pandemonium for pedestrians.
  I look both directions three times to cross a street.
  And I should also ass that some electric scooter riders have the same attitude.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 5:26am

• Ognjen Radic

  I think this speed limit is dangerous for riders. 15mph makes no sense when the speed limit is 25mph. the impact will be that i’ll simply stop using ebikes and revert to other modes of transportation, but that’s exactly what the adams administration seem to want. shame

  Comment added July 11, 2025 8:58am

• Grace OMeara

  The city should focus on regulating the largest danger to human life in NYC- cars. Install speed governors on all city vehicles, and enforce the actual speed limit.

  Slowing electric citibikes to 15mph costs bike riders significantly more money. There is no evidence that limiting them to 15mph reduces pedestrian injuries.

  Enforce limits on throttle e-bikes. Enforce restrictions on gas bike, especially those operating in the bike lanes on bridge and without plates.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 8:58am

• Nicole M

  A misguided ruling that will destroy the future of bicycle commuting and work performed on an ebike (delivery, messengers, etc) in this city. Of course, we all know this is the intention!

  Comment added July 11, 2025 9:59am

• Anjali Bhat

  It is insane to set a lower speed limit on the same road for small devices that cause close to zero deaths and serious injuries than we have for 2-ton steel cars that routinely cause traffic fatalities and serious injuries. This rule does not just apply to bike lanes. It applies to e-bikes and scooters riding in the road where there is no bike lane. So this rule would let massive SUVs continue to speed around at 35 mph (because you get a 10 mph leeway from traffic tickets in practice), endangering everyone, while a Citibike a fraction of the size must go 15 mph on the same road. Anyone who’s ridden a bike in the city knows that car drivers get very aggressive towards cyclists, e-bike riders, and scooter riders who are in front of them in the main lane and going slower than the driver wants. Twice in the last 30 days, I’ve avoided getting hit by a car only by accelerating to 18 mph, the maximum speed of my e-bike. This proposal is a pure emotional reaction, driven by people who are ignoring data and logic, and are fighting a culture war against delivery workers and cyclists. It should be soundly rejected.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:11am

• Emily Friedenberg

  I ride electric Citi Bikes often in neighborhoods without protected bike lanes, and I feel extremely unsafe when cars are passing me from behind. When Citi Bikes could go 20mph, I could keep up with the flow of traffic and drivers would mostly be okay driving behind me. At 18mph, I noticed cars being less patient and more willing to overtake me when there wasn’t enough room or honk at me. At 15mph, the difference is stark — I am getting passed constantly, whether or not there’s enough room on the road. I have heard from many friends that they stopped riding Citi Bikes as often because they don’t feel safe going a full 10mph slower than the cars we have to share the road with. Cars are the real danger — why can they go 25mph and bikes (who are more in danger than endangering) have to go 15mph? Everyone should be going 20mph max on our roads, no matter their vehicle.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:42am

• Kevin Siegel

  See attached comment.

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  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:44am

• Darren G

  This rule is an attempt to persecute working class new yorkers who need their assisted devices to move around the city. Instead of attacking the multiracial working class, the city should be building more infrastructure to encourage safe, sustainable transportation and shifting people away from the actually dangerous vehicles, cars.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:47am

• Alex Pelan

  There are no bike lanes in my neighborhood in the Bronx so I have to ride my ebike with traffic. Why would I be expected to go 15 mph when the posted speed limit is higher than that? People in cars are already pretty rude to me when I’m riding at 18-20mph.

  The rule as written seems unenforceable. I can exceed speeds of 15 mph on my non electric bike, but this rule would not apply to that bike? And what about if I turn off the e-assist on my electric bike? Is it an electric bike then or not?

  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:53am

• Zack Jones

  I am firmly against this attempt to crack down on ebikes and riders at a time when we need to be expanding this accessibly mode of transportation. This policy would instead promote car use that is clogging our streets and polluting our neighborhoods. We should be putting policies in place that promote the use of ebikes and bicycles, not replace them

  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:56am

• Adam Brodheim

  Putting speed limits on bikes is completely unenforceable and impractical and won’t actually do anything to solve the real issues we have in NYC with cyclists: running red lights, riding the wrong way down streets, and riding on sidewalks.

  What will solve these problems? Better bicycle infrastructure. We know bicycle infrastructure makes all road users safer.

  I have already experienced what it’s like to have a speed limit on my bicycle. Citibikes are now limited to 15mph. What that means is that I feel less safe in traffic (because i’m even slower than the cars) and more people ride recklessly because when you’re charged per minute every minute counts. NYC already saw how delivery cyclists became safer when they stopped being paid per delivery and instead were paid hourly.

  the problem is the delivery companies, not the speed of bicycles.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 10:57am

• Samir Lavingia

  I am fully in opposition to the 15mph. I don’t dispute that there are issues with cycling behavior, but they are around wrong-way riding and sidewalk riding. A speed cap does not fix these issues. We need bike lanes everywhere so riders can use those and feel safe and go the correct way down the street.

  99% of bad bike behavior is already illegal in some way, and other cities are able to enforce different behaviors, but we are unable to do that here.

  Additionally, forcing bikes to go _slower_ and asking them to go in the car lane is simply unsafe. After we have a comprehensive network of bike lanes, of which many are two-way, then we should entertain this rule change.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:00am

• Miser

  I have a nephew that is getting his first license soon, at the age of 16. He’s going to be given a car, right off bat, that has no speed limiter at all and can easily go over 100mph with the mere push of a pedal, despite being several thousand of pounds.

  And yet this city is worried about… Bikes? This is ridiculous. Every person on an ebike or bike is one less person that chooses the former option. Every person that chooses bikes saves lives, and braindead rule changes and legislation like this put that transition at risk. Making it harder or less appealing to transition to ebikes COSTS lives.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:20am

• Robert W Purcell

  Deeply wronheaded proposal. Ebikes are far more practical than cars for getting around Manhattan and much of the rest of the city, not to mention much safer.

  Ebikes can share space with cyclists some of the time, but they should increasingly be given their own space. As more powerful ebikes become more cheaper and more widely available, they will continue to replace cars for many people. And this is a good thing!!!

  Main travel lanes on more roads — certainly all streets and aves in Manhattans — should be limited to 20 mph, and should become shared space for ebikes and cars. 20 mph for all! This will also be safer for pedestrians and regular cyclists.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:27am

• Chad Smith

  The city has speed limits on its streets. Please do not single out e-bikes by forcing them to have speed restrictions. If an e-bike needs to ride in a street where it is sharing lanes with cars, going significantly slower than the surrounding cars is going to be dangerous for the e-bike rider and also for the cars that are trying to get around the e-bike.

  I’d also like to point out that many e-bike users seem to be immigrant delivery drivers. Singling them out seems a bit discriminatory.

  Please do not create limits on e-bike speeds. E-bikes should be able to use the city streets the same way as a fast cyclist or car can. Sometimes that means needing to go above 15mph.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:33am

• Kevin Burns

  The speed limiting of e-bikes just makes them more unsafe to ride in a city plagued by lawbreaking drivers.

  This whole proposal is fear mongering against bicycles, when injuries, deaths, and danger from cars is exponentially worse according to the DoT

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:33am

• Sean Cirillo

  I would happily support this rule change if cars were included. Otherwise it is targeting a group that accounts for an extremely small percentage of deaths and injuries while continuing to ignore the main danger on our roads, cars.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:36am

• Chandler Forsythe

  I believe there are a number of problems with this rule. I understand the many concerns people have with traffic safety. I’m primarily a pedestrian around the city, followed by a ‘regular’ cyclist, and also use e-bikes several times per month.

  I do not think this rule is enforceable, easily implemented, or practical for a number of reasons. However, two in particular are important to me.

  1. E-bikes simply are not effectively equipped to monitor speed, and there’s no real way to change that. This speed limit conflicts with industry, state, and federal guidelines on speed. Nobody is going to install a speedometer. Asking e-bikes to cycle under their bike’s cap is unrealistic and unlikely to be followed. For example, is an electric CitiBiker going downhill, on a 15 mph capped bike, and hitting 17 mph worthy of a criminal offense?

  2. This doesn’t address the many, many personal mobility devices on the street. Mopeds using bike lanes aren’t following the law now. Illegally sold e-bikes that don’t follow current regulations won’t be set up to follow this law. There’s scooters, the one-wheeled things, and many other devices that people don’t consider e-bikes. The rules aren’t clear and this doesn’t address these issues.

  Again, as a pedestrian first and foremost, I do understand the safety concerns. I think enforcement and education of existing rules is a far better approach. Commonly cited concerns with e-bikes include light running, sidewalk riding, failing to yield to pedestrians, wrong way riding, etc. This is already all not permitted under current law. We’re not enforcing the current rules against the most prolific offenders, nor educating casual riders who may not be aware. Is there any reason to believe this will be improved by adding another rule, that’s even less clear to average riders, or that the speed limit will be consistently enforced? I don’t believe so.

  Also, this is despite the fact that in my day to day life, I find cars to be far more dangerous. Double parking, excessive speeding, light-running are rampant, and cars cause far more NYers to be hurt, injured, scared, and ultimately, killed every year.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:36am

• Dimosthenis Antoniou

  I don’t really want to comment against or in favor of the speed limit on e-bikes as I believe that city officials know better than I do. But what I see is cars speeding way over 25mph, cars running red lights, drivers not waiting for pedestrians to clear the crosswalk or stopped on the crosswalk, etc.

  Why is it more important to implement a speed limit on e-bikes and not address other traffic issues that statistically show that can reduce deaths and injuries? It seems this is just a political move just to win a few votes for the upcoming election. It is really sad our city works this way

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:44am

• Molly Aalyson

  Hello, thank you for proposing this rule. As a 72-year old cyclist who uses my analog bicycle to travel around the city, I am under constant threat from e-bicycles and scooters traveling at high rates of speed. You cannot hear them coming and they rarely follow the rules of the road. I have a question regarding enforcement though. The other infractions (riding on the sidewalk, in the wrong direction) don’t seem to be enforced.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 12:00pm

• Dinneen Viggiano

  We need more *protected* bike lanes.
  Educate drivers about stopping at the stop line (not the cross walk), reinforce cyclist safety by ticketing speeding cars (rather than bikes, duh!) and ticket cars that don’t yield to pedestrians and bikes and/or park in bike lanes.
  Motorists don’t know what the street paint means without education.
  Don’t limit ebike speed limit.
  Upgrade Citibike infrastructure.
  Protect delivery workers.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 12:05pm

• Luke P.

  The DOT continues to focus on the wrong causes of violence in our streets. Currently, our streets are overfilled with speeding, rule-breaking, slaughter machines that continue to run down our children, our elderly, and neighbors daily. I’m talking about cars, the largest contributor of death and destruction in every neighborhood in NYC. The DOT refuses to take simple, proven steps like daylighting, improved street layouts, and other promising ideas to improve our safety.

  The new rule will do nothing to change the dynamic on the ground: It’s extremely dangerous for ALL road users, whether on a bike, on foot, or in a car. I would speculate that if the rule change is implemented, we could expect less safe roads as people load into cars, including our delivery workers, to avoid being over-regulated and over-policed by a hostile DOT.

  It’s completely unacceptable the DOT keeps pushing this anti-bike (and basically anti anything but a car) agenda that is mired in the current administration’s attempts to score good points with a very minor, albeit vocal, segment of the city who probably never walks down a city block.

  I strongly discourage the DOT from implementing this rule and to focus their attention on protecting everyone in NYC instead of just assuaging exaggerated fears and hyperbole of a small handful of people.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 12:48pm

• Dorian Emmanuel Montalvo

  I fully support the 15 MPH Limit on E-Bikes. They are reckless, entitled and have no regard for others around them and SOMETHING must be done to BRING THEM TO HEEL! I’ve nearly been hit both on the sidewalk and in the crosswalk by law breaking e-bikes running reds at high speeds or zooming down the sidewalk at the same insane velocity. And when I call them out for endangering me they catch an entitled attitude and get nasty and threatening.

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  Comment added July 11, 2025 1:02pm

• Cheikhouna tall

  I strongly oppose the proposed law to reduce the speed of electric bikes and scooters in New York City. This policy unfairly targets delivery workers — the very people who kept our city running during the most difficult times. Slowing down their vehicles will not improve safety, but it will make their jobs harder, longer, and more dangerous.

  Most delivery workers are immigrants who rely on speed and efficiency to earn a living. Forcing them to move slower will reduce the number of deliveries they can complete, cutting into their already limited income. It also exposes them to more time on the streets, increasing their risk of accidents, bad weather, and even theft.

  If the city truly cares about safety and fairness, it should focus on better bike infrastructure, holding reckless car drivers accountable, and offering protections to gig workers — not criminalizing the tools they need to survive.

  Let’s build a fairer New York, not one that punishes the people who work the hardest for the least.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 1:12pm

• Jennifer C

  As per usual the city is trying to do anything except to address the real issue at hand. If bicyclists are running red lights in a dangerous manner, there’s already a law on the books for that, and it just needs to be enforced. If adult bicyclists are riding on the sidewalk, there’s already a law on the books for that, and it just needs to be enforced. What’s the point of putting yet another unenforced law on the books? Build better infrastructure for people who choose to move about on bicycles, regardless of whether such bicycles have a motor or not, and keep drivers out of such infrastructure and there will be much less of a problem. Design bicycle infrastructure with less conflict points with drivers (e.g., dedicated turn signals for drivers so they aren’t trying to complete turns while bicyclists are riding straight through an intersection). Enforce existing driving laws (you think the number of bicyclists going through red lights is bad, open your eyes and observe any intersection in the city to see drivers fly through reds every light cycle or try to find even 1 driver who comes to a complete stop at stop signs unless forced to). Stop trying to pass laws and rules that are completely unenforceable and unnecessary. I don’t even ride an e-bike and have been menaced by plenty of them, as well as by plenty of drivers, and I simply can’t get behind this wrong-headed approach. Get to the root of the problem instead of always choosing what feels politically expedient.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 1:23pm

• Brooklyn Resident

  93 people have died in crashes in the first half of 2025. Clearly we need to reduce the number of deaths, especially those that were preventable. Reducing speeds is one way to reduce the risk of death and injury. Had this 15 mph limit on ebike been in place, it might have prevented 1 of those 93 deaths. If we truly cared about preventing deaths and injuries, why not address the 92 other deaths?

  Much of the concern with ebike could be addressed by simply enforcing existing laws. All of those gas mopeds in on the sidewalks and bike lanes are there illegally. That law is not being enforced. Those gas and electric mopeds without license plates are also on our sidewalks, bike lanes, and streets illegally. That law is not being enforced. Those cars and trucks blocking the bike lane (“just for a second”) are there illegally and force cyclists into the way of cars and pedestrians. That law is not being enforced.

  Please look at enforcing existing laws before adding the bureaucracy and legal morass that targets some of our most vulnerable. If anything, implementing citywide daylighting of our intersections would let us see oncoming ebikes, bikes, cars, and trucks and let them see us. Reducing speeds across the board and enforcing them to the same standard for ebikes, bikes, cars, and trucks would also make all NYers safer.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 2:11pm

• Lynne Glasner

  While the intent for this new regulation seems to be sincere, the de facto reality is that there is NO means of enforcement. Even if the cameras now installed on the traffic lights could take photos of bike riders as well as regular traffic, and assess their speed, how would the rider be identified? Cars and trucks and motorcycles all have, by law, license plates for ID, which can be traced and fined. Without the addition of state or city regulated identification for the bike, this law will have absolutely no effect.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 2:37pm

• Autumn Bosco

  Being limited to a lower speed than cars even when sharing the same lanes as them is nonsense. The only reason I feel comfortable biking where there are no protected bike lanes is because I can mostly keep up with cars on smaller streets. Regulate the speed of e-bikes in bike lanes, not in car lanes with a far higher speed limit!

  Comment added July 11, 2025 2:42pm

• Calin I Gilan

  A 15 MPH speed limit is much too low to be safe on an eBike. It has already decreased the quality of Citi Bikes and added more conflict with cars at lights and on shared roads. A decrease in safety, and an increased in time cost. A lose lose. It is already very hard to hit 18mph for continuous stretches, and the times that it is needed are typically to stay safe on roads without protected lanes.

  Looking at the overall stats on NYC road deaths, 99.9% of them come from cars. Decreasing the quality of eBikes which contribute to nearly no deaths and pushing people towards more harmful modes of transit.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 2:43pm

• Nick V.

  While I DEFINITELY support putting a speed restriction on ANY AND ALL E-Bikes operating on our streets, AND having some type of enforcement (while I’m not quite sure HOW) on having their mostly reckless drivers OBEY THE SAME TRAFFIC SIGNS AND SIGNALS (STOP SIGNS, LIGHTS, ETC.,) that ALL motor vehicles must obey. FURTHER, while capping their speeds on streets, HOW ABOUT BANNING
  , AND ENFORCING THE BAN, TO NOT ALLOW THEM TO DRIVE ON OUR SIDEWALKS? Taking a walk in our neighborhoods these days means taking your life, health, and safety in your hands ON OUR SIDEWALKS!!!!!

  Comment added July 11, 2025 3:55pm

• Jacob Becker

  I do not support a 15mph cap on e-bikes, the previous 18 mph cap was effective at pedestrian safety, but also had increased safety around cars which routinely require maneuvering around when they constantly enter and exit bike lanes and pass unsafely. The dangers from bikes come from bikers not stopping for pedestrians, which is unsafe at 15 or 18 mph

  Comment added July 11, 2025 4:22pm

• Ryan Johnson

  This 15mph e-bike cap misses the mark. The real issue is street safety and the lack of road enforcement. Slowing down all riders — including responsible commuters on citibikes — won’t fix the chaos caused by unregulated, high-speed delivery bikes and zero traffic enforcement. If anything, this just gives the illusion of action without solving the underlying problems.

  A better first step? Start enforcing basic traffic rules and require delivery platforms to ensure the bikes they deploy meet city standards.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 4:24pm

• Pedro Rodriguez

  The proposed rule doesn’t make sense. For starters, is the speed limit on the bike itself or the motor? If the former, does that mean that an e-bike cannot be pedaled faster than 15mph without motor assistance?

  Why would this apply to e-bikes but not regular bikes?

  I also fail to understand why this rule is being implemented. Under what logic can you put a speed limit of 15mph to small vehicles that weigh less than 100 pounds, but keep the city speed limit of 25mph on vehicles that weigh several tons?

  This “rule change” feels more like a campaign move by Eric Adams. I doubt these comments will matter, as there is simply no logic to this rule change. All I can hope is that if this goes through before the election that the City Council will stop it, and if they can’t, that Zohran Mamdani reverts it right away.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 4:24pm

• an ebike speed limit of 15 mph is absurd and abusive

  The proposed rule is absurd, unnecessary, counterproductive, and abusive to bicyclists in NYC.
  1. Most bicycles do not have speedometers. The law is difficult to comply with.
  2. All bikes – both electric and non-electric – are at their fastest going downhill. This law will be used to abuse delivery riders with speed traps at the bottoms of hills. At that point, typically the electric engine isn’t even engaged – riders are coasting on momentum alone.
  3. Non-electric bike speed limits are 25 mph. The rule says the lower speed limit on ebikes is due to their greater weight – most ebikes weigh about 50-70 lbs while most non-electric bikes are around 20-30 lbs. So the weight difference is about 20-50 lbs. Now, add the rider. Adult weight ranges much more than this and account for a larger amount of the full weight of a bike! A 150 lb person on a 60 lb ebike weighs 15 pounds LESS than a 200 lb person on a 25 lb non-electric bike. Why does the 225 lb rider + bike have a higher speed limit than the 210 lb ebike rider?
  4. Unlike ALL OTHER VEHICLES on the streets, ebikes already have hard-coded speed limiters. Class 1 ebike engines cut out at 20 mph as per federal guidelines and NY state law. Cars and motorbikes, which are much heavier and dangerous, can easily hit 100 mph.
  5. Let’s be honest here – the biggest safety problems with micromobility devices have nothing to do with speed – riders who ride on sidewalks or blow stop lights. There are existing laws against such behavior. So enforce those. This is just a cynical attempt to avoid the hard work of enforcing existing laws but be able to say the city is “doing something”. What they’re doing is penalizing safe law-abiding riders because it’s easy rather than anything effective.

  Electric bikes are transformative for our city, allowing for many trips that previously could only be carried out via automobiles to instead take an efficient, emission free trip that reduces traffic congestion and frees up valuable parking space. Commuters can now bike to work or school without showing up super-sweaty. Delivery workers can traverse the city for hours without hurculean endurance. Bike can now be used to carry cargo or passengers. E-bikes are even safer in traffic than non-electric bikes – electric pedal assist gets them going and through intersections from dead stop dramatically faster, easier, and smoother than non-electric bikes – this makes ebike riders safer at intersections and more likely to stop at them (especially uphill).

  Don’t pass this stupid rule. Take real actions to make streets safer – add bike infrastructure and enforce laws to get bikes of all kinds off sidewalks.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 4:40pm

• Wendy Peace

  YES DOT, I support 15MPH speed limit for e-bikes and e scooters –but I fear without rider accountability it will make little difference. We must have license and registration for all E Vehicles -“Priscilla’s Law”- so that the 15MPH limit will be enforced by traffic cameras which can identify the behavior of an egregious rider by license plate and issue a ticket. Also people who flee the scene of crashes can be identified! Priscilla’s Law will actually change dangerous rider behavior and make us all safer, the e-bike riders included.

  It is currently illegal to run red lights, speed, ride on sidewalks, go the wrong way and these reckless behaviors are seen all around us all day severely impacting the quality of life of all New Yorkers. But there is no enforcement or accountability. I hope the speed limit does become 15MPH for e-bikes, and hopefully there will be enforcement and accountability.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 4:55pm

• Blaise Dupuy

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  It also makes biking in traffic more dangerous, as bikers will not be able to stay in the flow of traffic, and won’t be able to make quick, decisive maneuvers to avoid cars that turn unexpectedly.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 11, 2025 5:04pm

• Harris Solomon

  As others have stated, cats are allowed to plow through red lights, hit and kill pedestrians, and rack up tens of thousands of dollars in violations. And yet the city fails to use data to drive its rule making but instead goes after ebike riders with little evidence to support this rule. I am strongly against this change and recommend that DOT and fellow agencies pursue changes that can address real, documented safety concerns— like those presented by motor vehicles.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 6:56pm

• km

  As a pedestrian with neither a car nor an ebike, I have been much more threatened by speeding traffic than anyone on a bike or scooter. I am nearly hit by drivers on their phones, making blind turns, or running red lights every week! I don’t see why targeting the people on bikes is the solution! NYDOT data shows that 99.34% of pedestrian deaths are caused by motor vehicles, they’re 150x more deadly than bikes, scooters, and mopeds combined!

  Comment added July 11, 2025 7:47pm

• Cecil Scheib

  I strongly oppose a 15 mph cap, as it is contradictory to the stated goals of the City of New York, including climate action, human health, and environmental justice, among others, to take an action specifically designed to discourage cycling. Those who wish to pursue safety for all users, including potential dangers from those on e-bikes, should seek other solutions (many of which are mentioned elsewhere in these comments) – not a hasty solution full of unintended consequences and ripe with unfairness.

  It also defies common sense that on a roadway with no bike lane, bikes and cars would have different speed limits – and cars have the higher one. That ignores street safety principles, crash statistics, and physics.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 8:53pm

• Rex T

  The 15 mph speed limit that has been set on the electronic citibikes feel noticeably slower than prior to the speed cap, to the point where it becomes harder to maneuver around the [#1 killer of all pedestrians and cyclists] cars that themselves are not always meaningfully following their speed limits. The previous limits felt like the right balance, appropriate to the class 1 pedal assist e-bikes that the laws were originally designed around; where the speed caps need true enforcement is in the faster class 2+ throttle e-bikes, mopeds, and cars that are much more prone to causing significant injury and/or death.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:31pm

• Eric

  This proposal does nothing to address reckless driving from bike or scooter riders. This is an arbitrary speed limit that is completely unenforceable. This misguided proposal appears to be entirely for the purpose of optics, and reduces accessibility of the city by targeting a group of people who are largely safe, when reckless drivers result in significantly worse damage and are rarely held accountable.

  Comment added July 11, 2025 11:48pm

• Luke P.

  Tonight, Another Child is Mowed Down by a GMC Yukon; But Yes, Please Regulate our Citibikes.

  One of the only bright spots in this city is the ability to move freely by bike, and instead of better-protecting bike lanes, building more bike lanes with actual concrete barriers and curbs, clearing illegally parked cars from street corners or clearing out double-sided parking streets that shove bikes, pedestrians, and cars into the same narrow band of concrete, the city feels the need to regulate a private business with all the grace of a Putin-esque edict.

  From an administration that has done nothing to improve the lives of its everyday citizens, it boggles the mind how little creativity this team displays. The same team that saw no reason whatsoever to pursue further Vision Zero activity now chooses the worst way of enforcing traffic laws.

  Cars > All else. Including common sense, clearly.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 1:12am

• Jake T

  We should also add a speed limit for people jogging on the sidewalk!

  This proposal is nonsense. If you want to prevent collisions, add better bike and pedestrian infrastructure to prevent these issues.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 1:27am

• Heley

  I oppose the proposed 15mph speed limit for e-bikes as both legally questionable and counterproductive to public safety.

  First, this proposal may violate New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1642, which prohibits NYC from establishing citywide speed limits below 20mph. The city should clarify how this regulation complies with state law before implementation.

  Second, this policy creates a dangerous enforcement disparity. While cars—which cause the vast majority of pedestrian fatalities—routinely exceed speed limits with minimal consequences, the city is targeting cyclists with new restrictions. If safety is truly the goal, resources should focus on car speed enforcement, not making bikes slower and less visible to motorists.

  Third, former DOT officials have warned this rule will “put cyclists in danger by forcibly slowing them down.” Slower cyclists struggle to keep pace with traffic and may be less visible to drivers, creating more hazardous conditions.

  Fourth, the enforcement mechanism is fundamentally flawed. Requiring speedometers only on bike-share systems while ignoring private e-bikes creates arbitrary and unequal treatment. This selective enforcement undermines the rule’s stated safety purpose.

  I urge the city to focus on evidence-based safety measures that address the primary cause of traffic fatalities: excessive car speeds and inadequate enforcement of existing traffic laws.

  Thank you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

  Comment added July 12, 2025 2:19am

• Thomas Cashin

  Greetings. The threat to life and limb created by speeding scooters and commercial e-bikes is the result of the lack of enforcement. No scooter should be allowed to be operated on the sidewalk, run red lights or go against traffic on the roadway, but they do all of the above on a daily basis. The lack of common sense and too much permissiveness in society has created chaos in NYC. When will it ever end? Our Commissioners and Politicians need to start serving the Public interest.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 8:48am

• Leah Weston

  I am not in support of this proposed rule. If the goal is to promote safety of street users, this speed cap is arbitrary and will not result in safety, so much as criminalizing already vulnerable road users.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime.

  I urge you to use an evidence-based approach to prioritize safety of all road users, and abandon this nonsensical and cruel proposal.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 12:22pm

• Jeffrey Elmer

  I am writing in opposition to the Administration’s proposal to impose a speed limit of 15MPH on bicycles, e-bikes, motorized scooters and related modes of transportation. I am a retiree living in Manhattan and unlike many commenting on this proposal, I am NOT, repeat, NOT a daily bike rider. I usually walk from place to place or take public transit; sometimes, I drive my car. As a senior citizen, I share the concerns of most with respect to traffic dangers. I’ve had a few close calls and have almost been hit by both cars and bikes; fortunately, no major accidents. But the data does not lie; automobiles, both trucks and cars are the major cause of pedestrian accidents fatalities, not bicycles, e-bikes or motor scooters. It is not even close.
  Furthermore, I’m not a lawyer but it is my understanding that NYC cannot unilaterally implement a speed limit of less than 20 MPH without enabling NYS legislation. The recently enacted Sammy’s law allows NYC to reduce the limit to 20 MPH in school zones and other designed areas which is now being rolled out. If speed limits are to be reduced, 20MPH would be a reasonable compromise measure that would improve public safety overall.
  It seems to me that this measure is simply an acceleration of the Adams Administration’s recent effort to criminalize minor cycling violations, especially among delivery workers. A car can speed through a red light and receive a traffic ticket but a foreign-born food delivery courier on an e-bike can now get a criminal summons. For an immigrant with an asylum case pending, this can even lead to detention or worse. This is deeply unfair and is clearly intended as an attack on the largely immigrant workforce that predominates in this industry. It is a shame because under this same Administration and to its great credit, some of the most progressive legislation in the country was enacted to provide fair wage standards and labor protections to these workers. Now, possibly under pressure by the Trump administration, our Mayor pivots to demonizing immigrants who are basically doing hazardous but vital jobs that few native-born Americans want. If we want e-bike delivery couriers to slow down, Uber-Eats, Wonder and the few remaining apps that they have not yet swallowed need to modify the algorithms they use to pressure workers to deliver at increasingly rapid speeds. The E-platforms should have realistic delivery standards and incentives tied to the delivery couriers’ pay to ride as safely as possible. It is encouraging to hear that this will be one of the focuses of the DOT Division of Sustainable Delivery that is being formed. I hope the DOT continues to aggressively build out the cycling and other transportation infrastructure and physical traffic safety measures in the five boroughs but modifies or withdraws this poorly conceived 15 MPH proposal. Thank you.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 1:39pm

• Alice Thum

  This proposal makes no sense. If e-bikes and scooters should be capped at 15mph, why not the SUVs that routinely run red lights and cut off pedestrians when turning? The potential for cars to induce fatal injuries is far greater than that posed by an e-bike, and current enforcement appears non-existent.

  As a pedestrian, I feel FAR more threatened by the reckless drivers in my neighborhood than any maneuverable e-bikes and scooters, which are much easier to avoid. This speed limit could also prevent an e-bike from maneuvering out of the way of a dangerous driver or situation. That is inexcusable.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 3:15pm

• Allen Cheng

  While it makes sense to introduce a speed limit on e-bikes, 15 mph is much too low a speed limit. A bike is much lighter and therefore less dangerous than any car moving at the same speed, yet cars in the city can far exceed 15 mph and would face much weaker oversight than a physically enforced bike speed limit. Any speed limit on bikes should be at least the car speed limit (if not greater, considering the reduced impact of any actual collisions).

  I would prefer the city spend my tax dollars on enforcing existing traffic laws (no running red lights, no motorcycles on the sidewalk, etc.) instead of discouraging a greener, quieter, and healthier form of transit.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 3:20pm

• Richard Miller

  I am an everyday New York City cyclist and Transportation Alternatives member who would support this rule under two conditions: (1) it were limited to protected bicycle lanes only; and (2) implementation were postponed for one year during which the DOT would make clear that for all protected bicycle lanes the recommended speed is 15 mph. We could see during that time if it helps to slow down motorized bicycles and scooters. Any other implementation of this rule would be discriminatory because it would illegally and unfairly discriminate between cars and electronic micro-mobility outside of bicycle lanes and permit cars to go faster than the smaller more exposed methods of travelling that we should be encouraging.
  Even more importantly, the City should make 20 mph the default speed limit on all New York City roads and step up its enforcement against mopeds in bicycle lanes. There are still too many mopeds in bicycle lanes, which is a major discouragement for usage.
  I authored an article about for Streetsblog advocating this position: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/opinion-slow-down-on-our-bike-paths.

  Comment added July 12, 2025 5:36pm

• BARRY MASTELLONE

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 13, 2025 7:30am

• Mary Laskow

  While I feel the problem of electric vehicles like scooters, ebikes, etc. needs to be addressed, this speed limit proposal is inadequate and will result in targeting undocumented people, people who happen to be in the wrong place, wrong time, and would not handle the problem.

  This city cannot even manage to uphold speed limit laws on cars; why would a speed limit on two-wheel vehicles be any easier to enforce.

  I’m against this.

  Comment added July 13, 2025 3:55pm

• Brian J. Soliwoda

  With the administration’s recent policy shift, it’s impossible to have meaningful conversations about important issues like e-bike speed limits.

  Based on police discretion, bicyclists can be stopped and ordered to appear in criminal court, with all of the obvious implications that may have in our political climate for immigrant New Yorkers, foreign visitors, and other bikers for whom a criminal summons rather than a traffic citation may cause life-changing harm.

  Because of that, I oppose this rule, and suggest that it be withdrawn until the administration stops the criminalization of cyclists.

  Cycling is not a crime. And when it’s supported, makes us a stronger New York.

  Comment added July 13, 2025 9:21pm

• Deenie Bugge

  I strongly oppose the proposed 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes.This proposed rule targets a group of road users that cause comparatively few injuries. E-bikes are not dangerous; the staggeringly vast majority of injuries and deaths are caused by drivers of cars.
  A e-bike speed limit in isolation does nothing to prevent sidewalk riding or reckless behavior. Additionally, this speed limit would place cyclists at greater risk. Much of NYC lacks full, protected bike lanes; cyclists are forced to interact with motor vehicle traffic but will be unable to keep up with traffic at this speed limit.
  Please say no to special speed limits for cyclists and focus on drivers of cars who are responsible for the vast majority of injuries and deaths of pedestrians and other road users.

  Comment added July 13, 2025 10:48pm

• David Gomez

  I do not support this rule change. It mistakenly vilifies electric bicycles as a “top danger” within our streets when the obvious, overwhelming problem is with reckless automobile drivers. Car accidents are an order of magnitude larger and more fatal issue than bicycle related incidents. The city’s priority for safety should therefore always be to reduce the number of trips taken by automobile. With a 18mph top speed E-bikes offer a very attractive alternative to cars in terms of speed of journey, reducing this limit will only make people consider more dangerous gas powered alternatives (cars and heavier gas mopeds).

  Also, as a frequent E-bike user, I can say the 18mph speed limit feels much safer when traveling with automotive traffic since the speed differential is lower. Considering many streets do not have bike lanes and even the ones that do are clogged with double parked cars, I am frequently forced to be in the lane with cars. I feel much more safe almost keeping pace with them on an 18mph ebike vs. being raced around when I ride a pedal bike (probably 12-15mph)

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:34am

• Michael Ann Dobbs

  I’m a mom and ebike rider in NYC. Ebikes are the best way to move kids around the city! We are not restricted to how far my kid can walk, it’s a lot of fun, and she isn’t bored on transit.

  I had a regular cargo bike and now have an electric cargo bike and while it’s nice to be able to go farther, the big difference is safety. Before I had an ebike, cars aggressively passed close to myself and my daughter. Streets with shared bike/car lanes, streets without bike lanes (many of which we have to take to our destinations) or where bike lanes are filled with parked cars, delivery trucks, and emergency vehicles and I am forced into traffic are simply dangerous for a biker who can only go 8-10 mph.

  Being able to go 20 mph to deal with traffic that itself is only supposed to be going 25 mph is safer for me and my daughter. My bike doesn’t slow traffic to a stop or anger drivers. Angry drivers put cyclists into dangerous situations.

  I know many regular cyclists can go faster than 20 mph — I’m passed regularly by people on non-ebikes — but I simply can’t while also carrying my kid. And if there’s a type of rider the city should be trying to get more of, it’s moms!

  We all know due to decades of insurance data, that mothers are the safest drivers. The current population of cyclists are exactly the kind of demographics that insurance companies show are dangerous drivers: mostly young men. Getting more women and especially more moms with kids on bikes will put pressure on all cyclists to obey traffic laws better.

  I understand that the city may wish to have everyone who is an app based delivery ecyclist have a license or professional insurance, but there are serious problems with limiting the speed of delivery cyclists. I’m seeing more and more deliveries being done by motorcycle and motor scooter. If ebikes become too inefficient there will be a general switch to these heavier, faster, more likely to cause injury and death gas vehicles. The streets will become even more unsafe for cyclists and pedestrians. We already know that increases in vehicle exhaust cause asthma, lung cancer and COPD. We’ve known since the 1970s that increases in traffic noise causes lower reading test scores. The switch from silent, non-polluting ebikes to motorcycles and motor scooters will be devastating for our children’s education and the health and safety of everyone in the city.

  Restricting the speed of ebikes will almost certainly make cycling less safe for cyclists who deal with traffic, increase the number of dangerous motorcycles, lower reading scores, increase the rates of asthma and other lung conditions.

  I hope you reject this rule and keep ebike speeds 20 mph, in line with the 25 MPH for cars.

  [A link to a recent study on road traffic noise and reading comprehension: https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/15355%5D

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:00am

• Is this in violation of the ADA?

  If this rule passes, will it be in violation of the ADA? There is no such speed limit for cyclists who can go 20-24 MPH. Restricting only ebikes to speeds slower than a regular bike seems like it may specifically target those who ride ebikes due to disabilities and put an undue burden on their ability to travel freely on NYC’s public streets.

  While I do not have standing to sue the City under the ADA I will support anyone who does so. Everyone deserves the right to travel within the City on our public streets.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:05am

• Norah Steele

  I strongly oppose this rule. I believe speed limits should be directly related to the harm caused by the type of transportation. Motor vehicles cause far more accidents and more fatalities, but their speed is limited to 25mph. As e-bikes, e-scooters, & pedal-assist bikes cause less harm by these metrics, their speed should be limited to 25mph (or they should be allowed to go even faster.

  Causing undue burden to operators of these vehicles could limit their use and might shift those users to motor vehicles. This would statistically increase the harm to the people of our city due to traffic violence, increase our exposure to toxic vehicle emissions, and increase our reliance on fossil fuels as much more energy is required to move the far more massive motor vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:51am

• Wayne Chiarella

  I’m writing today to voice my concern about the 15mph speed limit for bicycles. As an avid cyclist that uses a CitiBike to get to work and then around the city for my job this rule has made riding in the city much more dangerous and expensive.
  We are unable to keep up with the speed of traffic on the streets and when we do need to speed up to avoid a dangerous situation we’re prevented from doing so with the bikes locked to 15mph.
  By lowering the speed limit you’re also adding on more expenses to my ride as it now takes longer to get where we’re going. We pay by the minute to use a CitiBike and with the new limit in place the rides cost much more. This limit has become an added fee for those of us that use a CitiBike.
  The focus should be on the vehicles that do the most damage and cause the most injuries and deaths. We all know that cars and other vehicles are by far the major cause of injuries and death on our roads. The city’s focus should be on how to slow them down and how to prevent them from running red lights, driving in bike lanes, stopping in crosswalks, etc.
  Fix the streets by stopping vehicles from breaking the law all day, every day.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:58am

• Michael mvm

  this proposed rule is stupid and childish. ebikes cause basically zero injuries or deaths. if you truly cared about public safety, yall would be doing everything in your power to remove CARS from the road, as they cause the cast majority of threat to human life. ebikes are a cheap, efficient, environmentally friendly, and fun way to get around the city and should have more dedicated infrastructure to allow as many new yorkers to use them as possible. limiting them to 15 miles an hour is such an onerous and unnecessary restriction that renders them basically unusable. stupid stupid proposed rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:59am

• Jonathan Edelman

  This is an anti-vision-zero measure, and I strongly oppose it. While NYPD’s resources are being directed to ticketing cyclists going 20 mph, the city makes a fraction of the effort to slow down the vehicles, drivers, and activities that cause the vast majority of injuries and deaths on our streets. Massive trucks and SUV’s that speed and run red lights are routinely ignored. Double parking, which forces all road users into a game of chicken, is the norm. Encouraging more driving and discouraging biking on the street increases costs, congestion, pollution, climate impact, noise, and crashes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:22am

• Ted Graves

  The blanket restriction of speeds on e-bikes is an unfair double-standard–cars are not treated this way. As a NYC/Brooklyn resident, I oppose this measure

  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:33am

• Jenni Whitney

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities, and these numbers have declined in the past year, with pedestrian crashes decreasing by 47%. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. Criminalizing biking addresses a fraction of the problem while ignoring cars which are overwhelmingly responsible for injuries and deaths.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:45am

• shane king

  I commute by a traditional bicycle every day in Manhattan. I see all kinds of behavior from other 2 wheeled commuters, the good, the bad and the plain old reckless. While a traditional bike is my main form of transportation I do sometimes take a citibike ebike if I’m running errands or otherwise have to park a bike somewhere. It is obvious that the NYPD has no interest in curbing bike thefts and as such I won’t park my bike anywhere. That leaves citibike, but with the lower speed limit and the ever increasing costs of them I won’t be renewing my membership if the speed limit persists. If I’m riding with my wife it is now become just as expensive as taking a cab, how does this help the city?

  For all of the people who go on about the reckless behavior of cyclists I would note that they are only noticing the ones that call attention to themselves, you don’t even see those of us who don’t block the crosswalks, stop at red lights and are good members of the community. For those who are so quick to explain how ‘they almost got run over’ bike a cyclist I would ask you to look at your own behavior. Even when riding within the law and courteously I ‘almost hit someone’ every day when they are standing in the bike lanes, crossing against the lights while having their faces buried in their phones or darting between parked cars into the bike lane. On my traditional bike I’m often going 20 mph, I can react quickly but if you are crossing the street without looking both ways (as my parents taught me to do at a young age) you can’t blame me for your lack of caution. I don’t want to run in to anyone and there is enough room for all of us if we just pay attention and be courteous.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:52am

• Jamie Fried

  Bikes and cars need to travel at similar speeds when sharing lanes. If you reduce bike speeds to 15 mph, then you need to also reduce car and truck speed limits to match that. If you do not reduce car and truck speed limits, then it is unsafe to reduce bike speeds.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:53am

• Ira Gershenhorn

  Limiting the speed of E-Bikes, E-Scooters, and Pedal-Assist Commercial Bicycles will effectively end their use because anyone riding such a device will be more exposed and likely to be injured or killed by a motor vehicle that weighs much more and go more than twice that speed.

  A better law would be to add noise making functionality to all vehicles or limit speeds of all vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:55am

• Alice Easton

  I strongly oppose this proposed rule. Criminalizing people on e-bikes for exceeding an arbitrary speed limit is dangerous, illogical, and counterproductive to the city’s stated goals of promoting sustainable transportation.

  This policy targets e-bike riders — including delivery workers and other essential users — with the threat of arrest for exceeding 15 mph, even when riding a 30-pound bicycle with no speedometer. Meanwhile, drivers of multi-ton vehicles regularly speed well over posted limits with little fear of enforcement. Why should someone on a pedal-assist bike face criminal penalties while someone speeding in a car might not even receive a ticket?

  I do not own an e-bike, but I sometimes ride Citibike e-bikes — and I likely exceed 15 mph coasting downhill on the Queensboro Bridge. Without a speedometer, it’s impossible to know. That uncertainty alone makes this rule unfair and impractical to enforce.

  More importantly, focusing limited enforcement resources on low-risk bike riders, instead of on vehicles that cause the vast majority of traffic injuries and deaths, makes our streets less safe. Overly strict rules that are difficult to follow — and inconsistently enforced — invite bias, even when enforcement is well-intentioned.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, especially immigrants and working-class New Yorkers who rely on e-bikes to get around. And it will increase the risk of unjust criminalization, incarceration, or even deportation for nothing more than biking in the city.

  Please do not adopt this misguided rule. Focus instead on reducing the dangers posed by reckless driving, and on supporting safe, accessible biking for all New Yorkers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:01am

• Dylan Jeronimo Kennedy

  I do not think we should have a lower speed limit for less dangerous vehicles. If we want to limit bicycles to 15 mph, we should have a 15 mph speed limit on regular city streets for all vehicles. Otherwise we are going to force cyclists to most 5 mph slower than the speed of traffic which could lead to conflict between the two groups.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:03am

• Eric Parker

  It’s bizarre that the city is choosing to enact a speed limit on e-bikes, when it doesn’t adequately enforce speed limits for reckless automobile drivers that speed through our streets, causing so many preventable deaths and injuries. We need improved cycling infrastructure to improve the transition to more productive mobility options.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:03am

• Ira Gershenhorn

  The proposed change to a rule to limit speed Limits for E-Bikes, E-Scooters, and Pedal-Assist Commercial Bicycles does not make anyone safer. It will increase injuries to anyone riding such a device and effectively destroy goals of micro mobility. A better rule would limit the speed of all vehicles or require noise makers when such vehicles go below a certain speed.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:13am

• Shravan

  As a proud resident of Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn — I am categorically against this. NYC DOT are not only asking the wrong question but getting the wrong answer!! e-Bikes etc. are NOT the problem. Or maybe they are problem #99 out of 100. The main problem is massive SUVs being driven through narrow streets by people who are texting or drunk/high. This speed limit is an excuse to arrest hard-working delivery drivers that go about their duty with humility. I’ve seen maybe 3-4 e-bike accidents in the last 8 years I’ve lived in NYC? Mostly people leave with a few scratches and they are caused by aloof pedestrians stumbling into the bike lane while wearing airpods and staring at their phones.

  In conclusion: NYC transit has got 99 problems, but e-bikes ain’t one!!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:16am

• Daniel F

  This is a misguided proposal that will not accomplish its stated goals while harming vulnerable road users (cyclists and pedestrians alike).

  1. Existing laws against wrong-way cycling, sidewalk cycling, and ebike bans in parks are barely enforced if at all. Adding one more law to the books will only create further opportunity for selective enforcement while many will continue to ignore it.

  2. Many offenders of excessive ebike speeds are delivery riders who will have even greater reason to transition to mopeds/scooters under this rule. As we all know, these vehicles are largely unregulated, go faster than bikes, are more dangerous to be around, and again are not sufficiently enforced by NYPD.

  3. 15mph is too slow for cyclists who need to merge with road traffic when legally taking the lane, especially in outer boroughs without bike infrastructure. A 15mph cap here is a lose-lose situation where drivers are slowed down and make unsafe passing attempts.

  The solution is to create more safe cycling infrastructure to further isolate cyclists from pedestrians and cars. The issues we face are a direct result of our failure to thoughtfully and adequately address growing cycling demand. More lazy, unthought, rushed rules will only backfire.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:24am

• Kenneth Lay

  This is crazy, it is unfair and unreasonable to apply speed limits to 40 pound bikes when 2 ton cars continue to go 25, 30, 35mph throughout the city. Common sense alone tells you the cars are more dangerous, as does the data from DOT itself, which shows that over 99.9% of street injuries and deaths are caused by cars and trucks. There is a single reason for this effort – to get people off bikes because certain members of the public, and apparently this mayor and first deputy mayor, don’t like bikes, likely only for political reasons to try and garner votes in the upcoming election.

  Ideology is not a reason to reduce public safety. If the city intends to lower the speed limits on bikes, then cars and trucks, the far more significant danger, should be made to go at the same speed or lower. Otherwise, this effort is idiotic and should be canceled.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:30am

• Andrew Jones

  I strongly oppose the 15mph speed limit for e-bikes.

  I do not own an e-bike and I’ve only ridden an e-bike on NYC streets a handful of times, but I can clearly see that e-bikes are an important transportation tool for many New Yorkers. From commuting, running errands, deliveristas delivering food, or even just leisure rides, New Yorkers from all walks of life rely on e-bikes everyday. Without e-bikes, so many of these trips would would be done with cars, polluting our air and choking our streets with traffic.

  It is absurd to apply a higher standard to someone on a bicycle than someone driving a several thousand pound car. Reckless drivers are the real danger on our streets, not e-bikes. We should not be treating e-bike riders as criminals when cars kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:30am

• Dario Harris

  It is plainly ridiculous to limit e-bikes to speeds that any able-bodied person can easily exceed on even the heavy Schwinn starter bikes of our youth. If the Council wants to address unsafe biking (a laudable goal!), they will have to contend with the large corporations that control delivery apps. Seamless, UberEats, and their competitors would no doubt prefer the Council follow our feckless mayor’s lead and empower the NYPD to stop every individual delivery driver on their assigned routes, but that’s not likely to work.

  The actual benefits of this policy (safer city streets and saner bicycling) will only be achieved by requiring the delivery apps themselves to temper their demands on delivery drivers to something manageable without unsafe driving.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:37am

• Wes Dumont

  Terrible idea

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:45am

• David Rozan

  The 15 mph limit on bikes is ridiculous, and will just lead to 1) a reduction in bike use, and 2) many more unnecessary encounters between civilians and police. This is bad policy all around.

  If you want to make things safer for pedestrians, aggressively go after drivers with multiple citations, and crack down on people blowing through red lights, which I see constantly. Also, raised crosswalks!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:46am

• nathaniel bachelis

  I ride an ebike to go to work and take my kids to school and camp. Most streets don’t have bike lanes. Most streets have a speed limit of 25 mph. Our class 1 pedal assist ebike assists us up to 20 mph. It doesn’t have a throttle. By being able to go around 20 to 22 mph on streets without bike lanes, cars tend to not harass us. If I had to take the lane but only travel 15 mph, we’d be at much greater risk than we already are at now. How is that remotely safe or legal? Cars will just harass us even more. You try riding 15 mph on a single lane street with cars and trucks behind you and see how safe that feels.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:48am

• Steve Shiffman

  This proposed rule makes no sense. Having e bikes subject to lower speed limits than cars, particularly when they are in the same roads is illogical and would create dangers for ebike riders. Cars are much more dangerous – by what logic should an ebike and cars on the same roads be subject to different speed limits? 15 miles may make sense on a bike path in some areas – e.g., near a school,, but certainly not in all areas – e.g. in lanes on the side of a road where cars go 25 mph, downhill stretches or many protected bike paths

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:54am

• Robert Moleti

  We are against this ‘rule’. This is an absurd rule that will make these e-cyclists and other less safe. The speed limit (for autos) is 25 mph. If anything, speed limits for e-bikes should be the same allowing e-bikes to keep up with traffic. When cycles travel at lower speeds than autos, while in the same lanes, this frustrates motorists and leads to unsafe motorist behavior; i.e. travelling too closely, attempting to pass while in the same lane, etc. Speed limits, as well as other vehicle & traffic law, should be crafted by experts, and legislated on; not written as a ‘rule’ to make for easy passage. This ‘rule’ is not safety driven; its a craven political move to curry favor with specific blocks of voters in a mayoral campaign year. And its unsafe.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:54am

• Eric McClure

  Testimony of Eric McClure, Executive Director, StreetsPAC

  StreetsPAC opposes the proposed amendments to city rules that would set a 15 mile-per-hour speed limit on all e-bikes operated within New York City.

  There is no factual basis for setting 15 mph as the arbitrary speed limit for e-bikes. In fact, USDOT identifies 20 mph as a safe speed limit in areas where vehicles are operated in close proximity to pedestrians, including for automobiles, which have roughly 100 times the mass of an e-bike. Setting a lower speed limit for an e-bike than for a three-ton Chevy Suburban or Ford Explorer or any other SUV or car or truck makes absolutely no sense given the relative potential for harm, as well as the statistical difference in actual harm caused to people using city streets. Drivers of cars and trucks are responsible for 99% of the deaths and injuries in New York City, so if anything, the speed limit for those vehicles should be 15 mph, rather than the other way around.

  New York City could lower the speed limit for all vehicles on city streets to 20 mph, an authority it was granted by the passage of Sammy’s Law in 2024, but the 20-mph speed limit has only been implemented on a small number of city streets. The fact that the Adams administration hasn’t acted to widely implement lower speed limits makes it clear that the proposed speed limit for e-bikes is not about safety, but some kind of perverse anti-bike agenda.

  Furthermore, it makes no sense that a person riding an e-bike in New York City could be cited for operating their bike at 16 mph, while the driver of a car or truck would not receive a ticket unless they were traveling 11 mph over the speed limit, which in most cases would be 36 mph. This despite the aforementioned geometric difference in harm potential. This inequity is amplified by the fact that the NYPD is now issuing Class C criminal summonses to people on bikes for the same offenses for which drivers of motor vehicles continue to receive traffic tickets.

  On that note, setting an arbitrary 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes, most of which have a factory-set top speed of 20 mph in accordance with New York State law, and most of which also do not have speedometers, creates an untenable situation for e-bike riders, who won’t be able to tell if they’re obeying the speed limit or not. With NYPD now issuing criminal summonses to bicycle riders, this very possibly will put many, many more New Yorkers into the criminal justice system, at a time when that is a very dangerous thing for non-citizens.

  We must also keep in mind that only about one-quarter of New York City’s streets have bike lanes of any type, and fewer than 9% of streets have protected bike lanes. Thus, on most streets in New York City, people operating e-bikes at 15 mph will be riding in traffic with far larger, heavier vehicles that can be driven at 35 mph without legal ramifications. This vast difference in speed, mass and force will create a dangerous disparity for e-bike riders.

  Lastly, we know that the best way to improve safety on city streets is to implement better infrastructure, like wide, physically separated bike lanes and “green wave” signal timings, and to heavily regulate the delivery-app companies that incentivize unsafe riding by delivery workers who are just trying to make ends meet. Those things do and will make streets safer for everyone, while discouraging the use of bikes through arbitrary speed limits and biased enforcement regimes most definitely do not.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:55am

• S Rose

  I believe that a 15MPH is substantially too low a limit for mobility devices of any stripe. If implemented, it will be ignored. If enforced, it will be used to target people at the economic bottom of our city, people who already struggle to feed their families. In a city where enforcement of regulations against, for example, parking in bike lanes, is non-existent, it sends the clear message: if you aren’t in an automobile, you are second class. New York should lead in promoting non-vehicular transit – not in suppressing it.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:55am

• David

  While I understand the intention of this rule is to improve safety for pedestrians, I do not think this is an effective way of doing so. This rule would specifically lower the speed of just e-bikes, without doing the same for other vehicles on the road, namely cars, which have a much bigger impact on pedestrian safety. The people hit by cars are not around to advocate for changes. If we agree that faster speeds on our streets should be limited, why do we not extend this to all vehicles on the road? If you want to care about street safety, we should lower the speed limit for all road users, redesign our streets to be safer by default.

  Since Citi-bike already lowered their e-bike speeds, this rule is mostly criminalizing delivery workers. I oppose this. Do better.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 10:55am

• Stephen Distinti

  I am a teacher and ride a regular (non-e-bike) bicycle as part of my commute from my home in Brooklyn to my school in the Bronx every day (weather permitting); I regularly clock over 100 miles of cycling per week through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. Every day I share the road with pedestrians, other cyclists, e-bikes, and cars. I have been hit twice by cars (including a police patrol car) and once by TWO e-bike CitiBikes (one was riding against traffic and the other ran a red when I had a green light and the right of way), so I know what it is like to share the streets with irresponsible vehicle operators and have no love for them. Based on that extensive experience, I can say without hesitation that the proposed limits on e-bike and other motorized micro-mobility devices are both (1) completely misguided and (2) unenforceable:
  (1) “In 2024, 37 pedestrians were injured in the entire year in 179 reported e-bike collisions, the NYPD said. In that year, 9,610 pedestrians were injured overall, so e-bike riders caused just 0.4 percent of pedestrian injuries.” (https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/policy-change-nypd-will-write-criminal-summonses-not-traffic-tickets-for-cyclists). In other words, the city’s policy priorities are completely backwards and its enforcement absurdly disproportionate: if the city actually wants to make the streets safer for pedestrians, it should prioritize enforcement on the actual cause of 99.6% of pedestrian injuries, which are cars, SUVs, and trucks. Instead, the city is devoting a great deal of its limited resources—including its bully pulpit, through which it is doing a great deal of harm to the public by spreading a deeply misleading perception of the danger of and actual harm caused by e-bikes—to an enforcement agenda that will do next to nothing to actually make the streets safer for pedestrians: even if the number of e-bike caused pedestrian injuries reaches zero, what about the remaining 99.6%?
  (2) The NYPD’s current enforcement of traffic laws is beyond abysmal: as noted above, I was even hit by an NYPD car when the officer behind the wheel failed to yield when making a left turn through a bike lane. Meaningful enforcement from the NYPD would involve, first and foremost, proactive patrols that ensure drivers follow the rules like obeying the speed limit, yielding to other road users when they have the right of way, and obeying stop signs and traffic signals—violations I see every single day, starting from the stop sign on my corner that drivers blow through every hour of the day. The NYPD has already shown that it will not prioritize such meaningful and impactful enforcement, so the e-bike regulations will result in one of two outcomes: either the NYPD will ignore them the way it ignores the real source of the problem and nothing will change, or the NYPD will selectively target e-bike riders for enforcement blitzes and nothing will change, since e-bikes are not the real source of the problem. And given that the vast majority of e-bike users are immigrants and/or people of color, such enforcement blitzes will only bring futher harm to already vulnerable communities and will no doubt be tinged with racial-profiling, thereby opening the city to lawsuits and costly litigation. However the NYPD responds to these new regulations, it will lead to no actual safety improvements for pedestrians and other users of city streets, and it poses a real likelihood of doing a great deal of harm in the process.
  In other words, this proposal will accomplish no real benefit for the residents of the city and distracts attention and resources from enforcement mechanisms and priorities that would actually help.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:05am

• Pamela L Gallagher

  The streets would be far safer if the existing vehicle and traffic laws were enforced against the deadly, multi-ton vehicles that currently race down the streets without impediment because of a lack of enforcement. The focus should be on adding day lighting and protected bike lanes throughout the city, in particular to the outer boroughs that have not received an equitable share of safety measures.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:08am

• Alicia R.

  Criminalizing biking goes beyond barking up the wrong tree. It exclusively discourages biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all (pedestrians, micromobility users, car drivers). A *criminal offense* is not applied to drivers of cars, SUVs or trucks when they speed. It’s a perverse answer to a real problem. The corporations behind the Delivery apps are the real criminals here. No human (on a bike, ebike or heaven-forbid a car) should be forced to make 5 deliveries per hour *all over a borough* in city traffic in order to remain employed. Furthermore, this proposal puts New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, which could lead to legally employed New Yorkers being threatened with deportation. 

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:09am

• Justine Cuccia

  I am in support of the 15 mile a hour speed limit on electric bikes, etc. as defined in the proposed legislation. These electric vehicles pose a danger to pedestrians as well as human-powered bicycles, due to their weight and speed. Operators of these vehicles share the same bike paths and greenways as human-powered bicycles (and sometimes pedestrians).

  One concern I have is enforcement. Presently, there is little to none effective enforcement. While I do want complaisance, I am aware of the potential for disproportionate impact on delivery personnel and people of color. It is a delicate balance that must be struck to ensure compliance without criminalizing riding electric bikes, etc.

  Besides more officer-presence (as a deterrent) and the issuance of warnings versus tickets/fines right off the bat, I am not sure what else to suggest. Officers who get to know who the regular riders are more likely to judiciously enforce the law.

  In response to those who object to the lower speed limit, I maintain that they are not the only users of the bike lanes. Their objections do not take into account the safety concerns of pedestrians and human-powered bike/scooter riders. An electric bike/scooter speeding down a bike lane at 20 or 25mph is just as terrifying, dangerous and deadly as a car. I say this as someone who commuted daily from Lower Manhattan to midtown for work – always riding a human-powered CitiBike. I had more near-crashes with electric powered bikes/scooters than any car, despite riding from the West Side Highway to Avenue of the Americas.

  Share the road. Keep speed limits under 15mph.

  Thank you.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:10am

• Theo

  I’m much more scared of being killed by a car than an e-bike, given that it’s statistically far more likely. This bill feels like it will slow down deliveries, drive up the costs for those deliveries, and not actually save lives. Maybe we could we get a 15 MPH limit for cars instead? Or let e-bikes go full speed alongside cars and make more space for them from the 6000+ miles of roads in NYC so they don’t have to fight bikes/pedestrians?

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:14am

• Astra

  Please work on enforcement of existing speeding laws for all vehicles. On my e-bike routes and certain roads, ometimes I need to match the speed of the car traffic around me. I won’t feel safe if I am limited to 15 miles per hour, while heavier and more dangerous cars, trucks, buses and SUVs go faster. How about built in limiters for cars on city streets? Why are cars sold with the ability to go 100+ mph anyway?

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:17am

• Bryce Stack

  I am strongly opposed to this proposed rule. Cars are much deadlier than e-bikes. Please consider limiting car speed in the city before limiting the speed of e-bikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:20am

• Hayden Brockett

  I oppose this proposed rule, which will have important environmental impacts that have not been studied and would likely hurt New York’s air quality. If DOT proceeds with this rule without an environmental impact assessment, it will likely violate SEQRA and other requirements. In particular, micromobility devices like ebikes decrease the use of fossil fuel and internal combustion engines by providing alternatives to these polluting vehicles. In order to be successful replacements for taxis, trucks, or cars, micromobility devices must be effective at allowing people to move quickly and safely throughout the city. The proposed rule, which seeks to impose a lower speed limit on ebikes on than internal combustion engine-powered vehicles, thus disincentivizes the use of electric Vehicles. Users therefore will not be able to get where they are going or move cargo using the bikes as quickly as they would using internal combustion engine-powered vehicles. As a result, there will be more trips using internal combustion engine powered vehicles then there would otherwise be before the rule was promulgated.

  At minimum, DOT cannot implement this rule without an in-depth environmental impact study showing how this will affect New York’s air quality. Without doing so, DOT leaves itself open to serious environmental litigation. Moreover, while due to DOT failures we do not have a study yet to show the results of this rule implementation, it is very likely it will decrease bike trips and increase air pollution. This rule will therefore likely hurt New York’s air quality. I oppose it on those grounds.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:22am

• Charles Gourgey

  Two weeks ago I was almost killed by an e-bike that hit me. I left the house and the next thing I remember was waking up in Bellevue Hospital. I lost consciousness and suffered a concussion. My medical record documents that the e-bike was speeding, doing 30-35 mph. I am lucky to be alive. There MUST be speed-limits for these vehicles and they must be enforced.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:29am

• Theo Spohngellert

  As a lifelong New Yorker, I am shocked and disgusted by Mayor Adams’s crackdown on cyclists both through criminal summonses and through lowering the ebike speed limit. Please focus on the actual issue of street safety which is reckless drivers who cause 100x more fatalities than cyclists.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:29am

• Donald Rasmussen

  The city should not put a speed limit on e-bike. Cars and bikes sharing the road would be subject to different speed limits.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:36am

• Matthew Kolosick

  A 15mph speed limit on electric bicycles without a corresponding 15mph speed limit on cars does not take seriously the safety of New Yorkers. I strongly oppose this proposed rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:39am

• WR

  Putting a speed limit cap on micro mobility but not cars is unacceptable. Cars are so much more deadly and dangerous to pedestrians and the city as a whole. I do not support a 15mph speed limit cap on e-bikes. This is not the answer!!

  Micro mobility solutions help our city. We should NOT criminalize it.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:49am

• Steven

  e-bikes should be banned from all greenways and bike lanes in NYC. anything with a motor should be on the road with cars and trucks.

  bike lanes need to be safe for bicyclists.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:50am

• Cathal OGorman

  This is a joke, e-bikes are not killing people, drivers are. By making e-bikes slower, you are encouraging people to drive or take a taxi, which is far more dangerous for everyone. Every single day, car driver run red lights and severely injure people, focus all resources on this issue and stop targeting bikes which are typically the victims of bad drivers anway.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:53am

• Orin

  What about cars? How will this be enforced? Cyclists are already criminalized per NYPD’s pet policy while drivers endanger magnitudes more with impunity. What is the rational behind small fast vehicles being arbitrarily limited to 15 mph while large fast vehicles are only limited to 25 mph? Is it a matter of weight? Top speed? Number of wheels? It’s pretty clear to me that the rule is purposefully biased and created to pander to a certain demographic of city resident.

  Sometimes it is more dangerous to be slow. If ebikes and scooters EVER need to ride in car traffic, it is paramount that they have similar speed capabilities. Does that ever happen? OF COURSE. Try driving a car on the highway at 40 mph – you will want to go faster to feel safer.

  Personally I ride a regular person-powered bike. I am frequently exceeding 15 mph. Is that a crime now too? Will I be pulled over even though this law doesn’t apply to real bikes? Do cops know the difference? This is a serious concern.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:56am

• Cullen Riley-Duffy

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 11:59am

• AARON SCHLOFF

  This citibike speed restriction is pure nonsense. There is ***no data*** that lowering the speed from 20 to 18, or now from 18 to 15 miles per hour, makes anyone safer. All it does it make trips take longer/cost more, and make citibikers feel more unsafe among cars with a speed limit of 25mph who can go up to 10 mph faster without any sanction. Bring the citibike speed limit back to 18 NOW

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:00pm

• Charles Leung

  Hi, I am a NYC resident in the Flatiron area of Manhattan. I have lived in NYC since 2006. I regularly walk, citibike, take public transit, take cabs/ubers, and drive in NYC.
  Reducing the speeds of e-bikes is a BIG mistake. Ebikes are responsible for a very small fraction of injuries and crashes – the vast majority of injuries and crashes in NYC involve a vehicle. Ebikes traveling 18mph are much safer for riders as that speed more closely matches the flow of moving traffic. The biggest source of injuries involving bikes are vehicles vs. bikes, so making that as safe as possible should be the goal.

  Thanks!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:00pm

• Daniel Lennard

  I strongly oppose Mayor Adams’ proposed rule change. Every single day, I see two-ton cars violating the rules of the road — speeding through red lights and stop signs, disobeying signs, driving recklessly. These cars actually kill people and endanger my family and me. Bikes pose no such danger. Please focus on the cars that kill people every week and NOT overly policing bikes, which are a safe and environmentally friendly alternative to the cars that negatively impact so many neighborhoods. Please get sensible. Most of us residents do not own cars yet we are constantly forced to reckon with their dangers and inconveniences. Enough.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:00pm

• Andrew Elsas

  Please consider the benefits and need for common sense biking laws. Bicycling in this city is vital for commuting, small business, and pleasure. Laws that limit speed will not make this city safer.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:01pm

• Harriet Flehinger

  When you bike enthusiasts can get all your cyclists to obey the established rules of the road (ride in the same direction as the traffic, stop at all red lights, etc) which most of us learned as children, then I will support more bicycles. But, I think you have a much bigger job to do than promote biking. Biking is at this point OVERPROMOTED. Now make the cyclists good citizens.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:01pm

• David Wm. Sims

  This rule is a terrible idea.

  Under this rule, a person on a 50 pound e-bike could get sent to criminal court or risk arrest for going 16 mph. Meanwhile, the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV could speed 40 mph through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket. This rule is nonsensical and dangerous.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:02pm

• Bryce Wilson

  15 mph is an unreasonably low limit to set for e-assist bikes. This is an easy speed to reach even on a non-motorized bike.
  I am not opposed to reasonable limits on speed for e-assist bikes, but the city should be much more concerned with the under-enforced traffic laws for large passenger vehicles than e-bikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:02pm

• Deborah K

  I am a mom of three who lives in NYC with my family. My husband regularly rides a cargo bike with my kids. He is able to pedal without e-assist at over 15 mph. Under the new rules, I would not be allowed to keep pace with him in an electric assist cargo bike. This is especially dangerous when we have to integrate with car traffic–which is going 20 to 25+ mph.
  This speed limit overlooks the importance of keeping up with car traffic when in car lanes. It places families using ebikes at risk.
  I don’t understand why more effort isn’t put into curbing the speed of cars, which are the real danger on the road.
  Additionally, the “green wave” set up on roads like 3rd avenue are set to 15 mph speeds. Realistically, to keep on the wave, this requires going slightly above 15 mph. So there is an inconsistency between traffic policy and the laws as being instituted here.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:02pm

• Thomas DeVito

  It is non-sensical, on its face, to require a lower speed limit for ~100 pound devices than multi-ton vehicles like SUVs. 20mph is the ideal speed for most vehicles on most densely populated urban roads. The city should expand 20mph zones, and – if there is going to be a speed limit on e-micromobility devices – it should be 20mph, and enforced at the point-of-sale. Additionally, much more needs to be done to change the incentive structures provided to working cyclists by their employers at UberEats, Door Dash etc.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:03pm

• Lindsey McCormack

  I strongly oppose the proposed rule to treat going over 15 mph on an ebike as a crime. I am a mom of two public school kids and use all forms of transit in this city: my family bikes, walks, takes public transportation, and drives. I want to see more people replacing car trips with ebikes because that will make our streets cleaner, quieter, and safer for everyone.
  The proposed policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph gets off without even a traffic ticket.
  If you want to set a 15 mph limit on ebikes and make going over that speed a crime, then the same law must apply to all vehicles, including politicians’ Suburban SUVs. But I imagine such a law would only come when h**l freezes over, so in the meantime, NYC must drop the illogical and harmful criminalization of ebikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:03pm

• Erik F Grivalsky

  I am vehemently opposed to the proposed 15-mph speed limit for ebikes. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need stronger enforcement of speeding and intersection control laws for cars and trucks.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:05pm

• William Clark

  The proposed rule to impose a special speed limit exclusively for people on bikes, including e-bikes, is fundamentally flawed and counterproductive for New York City’s safety and transportation goals. The rule would require unfair and disproportionate enforcement: the rule would criminalize cyclists for exceeding an arbitrarily low speed—16 mph—even on lightweight e-bikes. This is not only disproportionate, but it also subjects cyclists to harsher penalties than drivers of much more dangerous vehicles. By contrast, car drivers who commit far more dangerous infractions, such as running red lights at high speeds, typically only face a traffic ticket. This double standard is unjust and undermines public trust in traffic enforcement. The rule discourages sustainable transportation in that imposing strict speed limits and criminal penalties on cyclists will deter people from choosing bikes or e-bikes, pushing more commuters back into cars. The rule thus directly contradicts the city’s climate and congestion reduction goals by making cycling less attractive. The rule also has safety risks and misplaced priorities in that the greatest danger on city streets comes from motor vehicles, not bikes. Data consistently show that cars and trucks are responsible for the vast majority of serious injuries and fatalities on the road. Focusing enforcement on cyclists diverts resources from addressing reckless driving, which poses a far greater threat to public safety. The rule also raises significant and regressive equity and accessibility concerns in that many New Yorkers rely on bikes and e-bikes for affordable, accessible transportation. Criminalizing typical cycling speeds disproportionately impacts delivery workers, low-income residents, and communities of color.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:05pm

• Diana K

  Echo was Charles shared – STOP UNFAIRLY TARGETING CYCLISTS

  The City fails to take action on most speeding, red light running, and other dangerous behavior by drivers. This proposed rule targets a group of road users that comparatively cause extremely few injuries. Why should an e-bike be limited to 15 mph from 20 mph when a Dodge Charger with illegal modified exhaust system can speed by a school every day at 55 mph with no consequences? Thank you

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:06pm

• Jeno Sokoloski

  E-bike riders going 16 mph should not have stiffer penalties than trucks running red lights at 40 mph! The proposed rule is nonsensical and harms the city by disincentivizing environmentally friendly transit. Do not pass this rule. Do better.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:06pm

• Ed Thompson

  This proposed policy change is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding at a deadly 35 mph may go without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike.

  We should be protecting and supporting clean, healthy modes of urban transit like cycling, and instead focus on promoting mass transit, safe driving, and low-emissions vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:07pm

• Stephanie Hanson

  I am a biker who commutes by bike and picks up my son from school on an electric bike. I am writing to express my strong opposition to the rule change being proposed to create a special speed limit for bikes. In over twenty years of living and biking in New York, I’ve experienced firsthand that the most dangerous thing on our roads is cars, and it’s illogical to create a speed limit for bikes with criminal penalties when cars can hit and even kill pedestrians with little or no consequences. Creating a 15 mph speed limit for bikes will not make our streets safer.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:07pm

• Bradley Cox

  This is a horrendous idea. Oftentimes when riding on the street with traffic a cyclist will exceed 15 mph in order to maintain traffic flow and a safe riding environment. How is this going to be enforced in midtown traffic? And why should a car that blows through a light or further exceeds a speed limit beyond what a cyclist, e-bike, or scooter rider can achieve only receive a speeding ticket while a cyclist must go to criminal court? That does not make sense. I cannot wait for a mayor with common sense.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:07pm

• Tyler

  We should be prioritizing MORE bikes in the city, not discouraging them. Cars and bikes are NOT the same. They should be controlled the same way. Enforce speed limits for cars, not bikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:09pm

• Joseph Rosalie

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:09pm

• Tsee Lee

  Tell Mayor Adams NO to His War on Bikes!

  Under this rule, a person on a 50 pound e-bike could get sent to criminal court or risk arrest for going 16 mph. Meanwhile, the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV could speed 40 mph through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket. This rule is nonsensical and dangerous, putting people on bikes at risk while car drivers continue to speed right next to them.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:10pm

• James Proctor

  The proposed rules set penalties that are out of proportion with the behavior they’re designed to address and are therefore inappropriate. It’s backwards to subject people on bikes to criminal charges for moving violations when drivers who regularly engage in far more harmful behaviors like running stop signs and red lights, often aren’t even ticketed.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:11pm

• Nicolas Entel

  While I support regulating e-bike and e-scooter speeds for safety, the proposed 15 mph limit is too low—especially for heavy vehicles like Citi Bikes. These bikes are already sluggish in acceleration, and further limiting their speed makes it harder and more dangerous to pass obstacles like double-parked cars in bike lanes. This change increases the risk of collisions and forces riders into traffic, undermining the intended safety benefit. A more reasonable limit—such as 18 or 20 mph—would strike a better balance between safety and practicality, especially for pedal-assist systems that require momentum to function effectively.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:11pm

• Courtney Wise

  This is a terrible solution to the problem. Under this rule, a person on a 50 pound e-bike could get sent to criminal court or risk arrest for going 16 mph. Meanwhile, the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV could speed 40 mph through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket. This rule is nonsensical and dangerous, putting people on bikes at risk while car drivers continue to speed right next to them. Why is this even being considered? Why aren’t cars being held to the same standard even though they cause more accidents?

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:11pm

• CAROL M WAASER

  This rule is both ridiculous and prejudicial. E-bikes are far less dangerous than cars. Please compare the statistics of pedestrians & cyclists killed or injured by e-bikes versus those killed or injured by cars. To make e-bike riders criminals while speeding drivers merely get a traffic ticket makes no sense, unless the real purpose is to criminalize immigrants.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:11pm

• Curtis Fox

  I’m a biker and an occasional motorist, and I strongly oppose a new rule imposing speed limits on e-bikes. This rule could send a person on a 50 pound e-bike to criminal court for going 16 mph. I don’t even like e-bikes, but this rule would be nuts. It would be a gift to Donald Trump and his efforts to deport hard-working immigrants. The real danger is multi-ton cars and trucks speeding and running red lights, which I see every day when I’m on my bike! Please do a better job enforcing the laws we have and don’t criminalize biking. Find ways to make it easer and safer to get around the city on a bike, and make it harder for cars and trucks to kill people.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:11pm

• Lin

  I oppose the rule of adding speed restrictions for bicyclists, ebikes and scooters. Let’s put rules into effect that protect them! Motorists who speed and don’t follow the rules get a slap on the wrist! Whats wrong with this picture???

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:12pm

• Ferdinand Cesarano

  An e-bike is a bicycle; there should be no restrictions on an e-bike that do not exist for all other bikes.

  The City should instead be taking actions that are well within its power to increase public safety, such as:

  1. keeping bike lanes free of obstructions

  2. keeping mopeds out of bike lanes (NOTE: a moped and an e-bike are two very different things)

  3. doing strict enforcement on drivers who speed, who blow stop signs, who stop at red lights ahead of the stopping line, who double park (whether in a bike lane or not), who turn without signalling, who open a door without looking.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:12pm

• Michael Fortier

  Please stop the proposed speed limit rule for e-bikes and scooters. These bikes can safely be ridden above 15 mph. Instead let’s focus on educating riders, requiring lights at night and stopping reckless drivers!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:12pm

• Michael Healy

  This is a ridiculous rule that penalizes bicycles when the vast majority of fatalities are caused by cars. So a car that is speeding just gets a regular ticket but a person on a bicycle gets a criminal citation. It’s just ridiculous. And it feeds into this ridiculous Trump era notion that hard-working poor people are criminals.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:13pm

• Jeffrey Bartsch

  As a New Yorker for 30 years, I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need to actually enforce traffic laws for the many, many giant and dangerous vehicles that regularly run red lights, go the wrong direction down streets, and speed while passing cyclists much too closely. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for cars and trucks on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:13pm

• Linda Hayes

  This proposed rule is ABSURD! Why on earth should ebikes be penalized more than cars, which maim and kill 100X more people in NYC every year? It makes no sense! Stop this idiocy.

  If you want to make the streets safer, INCREASE PENALTIES ON CARS AND DRIVERS BREAKING LAWS!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:13pm

• Steven Smith

  Hello, my name is Steven smith and I’m commenting today to oppose the proposed 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes and e-scooters.

  This rule punishes responsible riders and makes streets more dangerous. Most legal e-bikes and scooters are built to ride safely at 20 to 25 mph. Forcing us to ride 15 mph on 25 mph streets puts us at risk — we become sitting ducks in traffic.

  Riders already breaking the law aren’t going to follow this either. All it does is encourage more tampering, more illegal mods, and more dangerous behavior. If we want accountability, registration and license plates make more sense than arbitrary speed limits.

  You can’t say 15 mph is the “safe fix” and also push for registration — that’s a contradiction. If the issue is accountability, then let’s solve that without punishing riders who are already following the rules.

  Also, let’s be real: there are fixed-gear bikes that legally go 25 mph or faster. Why is it dangerous only when it’s electric? It’s not the speed — it’s the rider’s behavior.

  A lot of the loudest opposition comes from older folks who don’t rely on these vehicles day to day. But young people like me are the future of New York. We rely on micromobility to work, commute, and live affordably. Our voices should matter just as much — if not more — when the policies being decided affect our generation most.

  Finally, it’s unclear whether the city even has the legal authority to enforce a rule like this without the state.

  If safety is the goal, focus on infrastructure, education, and cracking down on the reckless riders — not slowing down the thousands of us who ride responsibly every day.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:14pm

• David Rosales

  Hi,

  I find the speed limit on e-bikes to be insincere of what actually causing traffic violence on New York City streets.

  Under this rule, a person on a 50 pound e-bike could get sent to criminal court or risk arrest for going 16 mph. Meanwhile, the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV could speed 40 mph through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket.

  This makes no sense at all, and the well-documented data on traffic-violence would affirm that cars, not bikes, are the biggest danger on New York City streets.

  As a cyclist in New York City, I often am puzzled by the crackdown and insistence on cyclists’ actions, even though it’s the mode of transportation that produces the least amount of pollution, using up the least amount of public space, and again, is factually less threatening to fellow New Yorkers. If more New Yorkers biked instead of drove, the streets would be safer. Its the mode of transport we should be encouraging, not discouraging.

  Instead of “cracking down” on cyclists and blaming the individuals, we should look at the systems that incentivize cyclists speeding and running red lights. For example, if you are concerned about e-bike riders, primarily deliveristas, speeding, then you should look into the delivery companies who incentivize them to delivery as much as they can as fast as they can in order to earn a living wage.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:14pm

• Julia G

  This new rule is not easy to understand because it does not set out what the penalty for violation is. Having looked through the DOT rules, I do not know what the fine or criminal consequences are for someone who goes above the speed limit on an ebike.
  In addition, it goes against good policy to create a violation for e-bikes that aims to diminish use of e-bikes when they use less energy than a car, need less space than a car, and are less of a risk of death than a car in a collision. It is bad public policy to punish the service/delivery industry when so many people rely on it for their items, especially when this is a poor use of DOT resources compared to illegal parking and dangerous drivers.
  I do not support this rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:15pm

• Art Jones

  There is no evidence that the proposed speed restrictions for people operating bicycles with electric assist (“e-bikes”), electric scooters, or pedal-assist commercial bicycles on NYC streets will increase safety for pedestrians or riders. Personal electric vehicles should be subject to the same speed restrictions as other vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:16pm

• Stella cooper

  I do not support this rule change. It is outlandish to restrict the use of e bikes. The city should be improving access to bikes, e bikes and other transportation that limits the use of fossil fuels and increases opportunities for transportation. Cars are worse for our health and safety. I see cars speeding dangerously and running lights every day. I am not worried about getting injured by an e bike. Get your priorities straight mayor Adams.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:17pm

• CP

  RULE MAKES NO SENSE. Under this rule, I could get sent to criminal court and risk arrest for going 16 mph but I can speed my car through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket.

  INSTEAD LOWER ALL SPEED LIMITS TO 20 MPH AND LET E-BIKES RIDE IN CAR LANES.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:18pm

• Vishnu Reddy

  I oppose this rule because it will put me in danger as a cyclist in the outer boroughs, where I have to share the road with vehicles that can kill me traveling faster than 15 miles per hour.

  I live in Queens and rely on my e-bike every day to meet my transportation needs. Public transportation between the outer boroughs is subpar. Without my e-bike, I would likely purchase a car which would create more traffic, pollution, and curb space.

  When riding my e-bike in the outer boroughs, I often find myself sharing a lane with cars. We have a long way to go in building safe bike infrastructure for all trips, and the bike infrastructure we do have is often parked in.

  Often when I share a lane with cars, I get aggressively tailgated, honked at, or dangerously passed. I’ve even had drivers throw stuff at me out of their window. If I am limited to 15 mph in these situations, I will be targeted more by aggressive drivers who have no regard for my safety.

  If this rule is passed, I will be forced to make the decision between following the law or prioritizing my safety in these situations.

  Please do not implement this rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:18pm

• Michelle Jenkins

  == MAIN ISSUES ==

  – SYSTEMIC THREAT: Pattern: Asian & Latino seniors struck by high-speed unregistered e-vehicles—no plates, no accountability.
  – NOT RACIST: Not about race: Latino pedestrians depend heavily on sidewalks and bus/subway access; fatality rates are ≈20 % higher in Latino neighborhoods—the law protects them, it does not target them.
  – STATE LAW: Legal mandate: VTL § 401 already requires plates for vehicles > 20 mph; City non-enforcement violates state law, ADA, and NYC Human Rights Law.
  – CAPS ARE HOLLOW: 15 MPH cap: meaningless without plates—traceability is prerequisite to enforcement.
  – BIKE LANES: “traffic-flow” excuses trade death for lack of legal action for special interests however legitimate: inadequate bike lanes need upgrades, not suspension of safety rules.
  – IMMIGRATION IRRELEVANT: NYC bans using traffic data for immigration matters; registration regulates machines, not people.
  – SAFETY FIRST: Safety, not agendas: Vision Zero is for saving lives, not shielding corporate or infrastructure schemes.
  – MORAL DUTY: Body-count defense is immoral and anarchist: “less” deaths than cars terrorize elders, children, disabled and expose systemic targeting of the vulnerable.
  – TRACEABILITY IS A MINIMUM: Licenses work in principle: failures elsewhere stem from lax follow-through, not plates; e-bikes kill because force = speed × mass.
  – LEGAL INTEGRITY: Using safety laws for special interests destroys the legal integrity of all laws —laws must stand on their own.
  – BLURRING DEADLY VEHICLE DEFINITIONS: Speed limits for e-bikes does not violate Equal Protection; courts allow different rules for distinct vehicle classes when the limit is rationally related to safety (e.g., separate limits already exist for trucks, school buses, and mopeds) much less different venues of travel (e.g. crosswalks near a sidewalk, sidewalks, etc).
  – BOTTOM LINE: vehicles capable of lethal force must be identifiable—pass Priscilla’s Law, restore enforcement, and let other mobility policies proceed separately.

  == LEGAL FOUNDATIONS ==

  – STATE PREEMPTION: VTL § 401 — Motorized vehicles exceeding 20 mph, including many e-bikes, must be registered and display plates; the City’s non-enforcement creates a pre-emption conflict and violates state law.
  – EQUAL PROTECTION: Unequal treatment of cars and 40+ mph e-bikes undermines NYC Charter § 2903(a), which requires traffic regulation to protect life.
  – CIVIL RIGHTS: ADA & NYC Human Rights Law — Allowing untraceable high-speed vehicles on sidewalks disproportionately endangers seniors and disabled pedestrians, violating Title II of the ADA and local civil-rights protections.

  == PRISCILLA’S LAW — CITY HEARING STATISTICS ==

  – VISION ZERO: Vision Zero data shows seniors are the most at-risk pedestrians in NYC.
  – DISPROPORTIONATE DEATHS: Seniors make up 16 % of the population but account for over 45 % of pedestrian deaths.
  – HIGHEST RISK: Asian seniors have the highest fatality rate: 9 deaths per 100 000.
  – NEIGHBORHOOD GAP: Pedestrian deaths are 20 % higher in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
  – DELIVERY VOLUME: Over 1.3 million deliveries occur daily in NYC, many requiring riders to enter pedestrian-rich zones or sidewalks.
  – 40+ THROTTLE: Many e-vehicles used in deliveries reach 40+ mph when unlocked.
  == POWER AND IMPORTANCE OF SENIORS IN NYC ==
  – RELIABLE VOTE: Seniors are the most reliable voting bloc in every NYC Council district.
  – TURNOUT FORCE: They turn out at 70 %+ in off-year primaries and decide close races.
  – COMMUNITY LEADERS: They control community boards, co-op boards, block associations, churches, and neighborhood media.
  – OPINION SWING: One sidewalk crash involving a senior or child can swing press coverage and public opinion citywide.

  == LEGAL DUTY & LOBBYING PROTOCOL ==

  – MANDATED ACTION: Vision Zero mandates speed reduction and pedestrian prioritization; DOT is legally obligated to act on known risk patterns.
  – TRACE OR FAIL: Enforcing a 15 MPH limit or any speed limit without plates is performative—you cannot enforce what you cannot identify.
  – NON-INVASIVE: Capturing a vehicle’s plate is routine and collects no personal data; it cannot compromise due process under current city law.
  – PROPER PROCESS: Any exceptions to 15 MPH must follow legislative channels: written amendments, redlined text, stakeholder testimony, and data-backed justification before committee vote.

  == COMMENT STATEMENT ==

  I submit this comment in support of all NYC pedestrians and their families, including my aunt Priscilla, a respected schoolteacher and lifelong New Yorker, beloved in her community and by the children she cared for. She was killed by an electric bike rider who fled the scene.

  Her death is one of many—especially among Asian and Latino seniors—caused by untraceable e-vehicles traveling at high speeds, with no plates, no registration, and no accountability. These vehicles continue to endanger seniors, the disabled, and communities of color who rely on safe public space.

  I support Priscilla’s Law because it is morally urgent and legally required. Under VTL § 401, motorized vehicles exceeding 20 mph must be registered and display plates. The City’s refusal to enforce this standard violates state law. Allowing untraceable high-speed vehicles on sidewalks also violates Title II of the ADA and the NYC Human Rights Law.

  The proposed 15 MPH speed cap is symbolic and unenforceable without registration. It offers the appearance of safety while functionally protecting untraceable riders. Traceability is the only mechanism that enables real enforcement and protects the people most often injured.

  Arguments for exceptions to a speed limit—such as the need to “keep up with traffic”—are infrastructure problems, not justification for erasing enforcement. If bike lanes are inadequate, they must be improved. Do not use the presence of elderly and children to excuse unsafe behavior or override protections owed to them under the law. That is not policy—that is exploitation.

  New York City law already prohibits the use of traffic or registration systems to collect or disclose immigration status. Holding riders accountable to traffic laws is a separate legal process. Vehicle registration exists to regulate machines—not people. These systems operate independently of identity enforcement and do not compromise individual protections.

  Pedestrian safety laws must not be co-opted to serve corporate goals, environmental, immigration or infrastructure agendas. These are not mutually exclusive or contradictory even under NYC law. Vision Zero was established to save lives, not to deregulate or shield private actors or even other legally legitimate arguments. If the City or its partners want to expand micromobility or restructure traffic priorities, they must do so through open legislative processes—not by weakening accountability or usurping safety law.

  Some argue that only a handful of people are killed by bikes. That logic is immoral. We don’t measure justice by body count. The physical domination of public space by untraceable high-speed vehicles is terrorism of the elderly—a form of systemic neglect and tyranny of the majority. It creates daily fear, disables independence, and erodes the public trust in sidewalks and crosswalks.

  Some claim licenses “didn’t work” in other cities. But that reflects a failure of enforcement—not of principle. Plates work because they enable traceability, otherwise the entire system of law is subjective–a blatant threat to all civil rights. Any vehicle with lethal potential must be subject to baseline rules of accountability, regardless of purpose. Arguments that cars are heavier and therefore more dangerous ignore real-world traffic patterns and physics. E-bikes can and do kill—because force is a function of speed, and other factors, not just mass. Velocity, angle, and pedestrian vulnerability determine fatality, not whether a vehicle is used for work. If enforcement tools are weak, they must be strengthened—not abandoned. We would never discard license plates because some drivers still speed.

  At its core, Priscilla’s Law is about traceability and justice. If a machine moves fast enough to kill, it must be identifiable. That is a baseline—not a policy experiment. Everything else—traffic design, rider education, delivery incentives—must catch up.

  Support Priscilla’s Law. Restore enforcement. Let all other policies—whether about infrastructure, worker protections, or mobility—stand on their own merits, as additions, not replacements, to our rights to life, safety, and civil liberties.

  Comment attachment
  Priscillas-law-July-14-2025.pdf

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:18pm

• Mary

  We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. City Council also needs to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:19pm

• A P G

  This proposed rule misses the forest for the trees. As DOT’s own research will show, cars present more danger to New Yorkers than bikes. The City should focus on enforcing traffic laws, managing reckless drivers, unaccountable drivers with ghost plates, regulating privately owned e-bikes, and building protected bike lanes and infrastructure, not throttling a de-facto public mobility service like CitiBike that is otherwise helping reduce car dependency and pollution.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:21pm

• Julie T

  The statistics tell us limiting speed limits on CARS save lives. The focus must be on letting real data guide decision making.
  Speed restrictions for people operating bicycles with electric assist (“e-bikes”), electric scooters, or pedal-assist commercial bicycles are simply a distraction which will not result in SAVING LIVES which should be the focus of the important work the city does.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:22pm

• Luke Camery

  I bike to work every single day, primarily using my ebike as an acoustic bike with the power turned off. Cars are what pose a danger to me every day, not fellow bikers. I find the same thing when I drive in the CBD. Cars park in the bike lane or double park with impunity. Many of them are police and firefighter cars. I think the city could make $5000 per day in fines just by the fire house on 13th Street and 4th Ave alone. I cannot think of something less impactful than a speed limit for ebikes. That’ll make it even more dangerous and inconvenient when we need to enter the travel lane because the bike lane is obstructed. I’m begging you to start finally enforcing parking regulations and ticketing drivers who turn right on red, block the box on Houston, or stop in the crosswalk.

  I hope everybody involved in this stupid and useless regulatory attempt on ebike speeds feels ashamed. Can we finally get delivery app regulations? Or anything sensible?

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:22pm

• Steven herman

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:23pm

• Summit Hainey

  I do not support this rule change. It’s foolish, and makes no sense in terms of dangerous activity. It also seems strange that bikes going over the speed limit at a much lower rate of speed are being targeted more harshly than irresponsible car drivers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:23pm

• Kelsy Chauvin

  To the NYC DOT:
  As a Brooklyn-based bicyclist and pedestrian, my life is at risk every time I leave my home due to speeding drivers and other reckless behavior by those car, bus and truck drivers — including severe crosswalk intimidation, leap-frogging due to double parkers, spontaneous U-turns, and more.

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It makes no sense. Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  It will protect and serve all New Yorkers if the DOT accelerates plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:23pm

• Jeff Csicsek

  It seems inconsistent to me that a 15 mph speed limit would be applied to lighter vehicles with a statistically better safety record, while maintaining a 25 mph speed limit for far heavier vehicles which decades of data has shown pose a far greater safety hazard to all road users.

  If we are to take a data-driven approach, then it only makes sense to consider kinetic energy, as this is what actually matters with respect to the danger posed by various vehicles. Instead of basing public policy on feelings and biases, let’s take a data-driven approach. The calculation below finds an appropriate speed limit for e-bikes, based on the current 25 mph speed limit for cars. For simplicity, the mass of an e-bike is assumed to be 50 lbs (23 kg), and the mass of a car is assumed to be 3000 lb (1360 kg). In order to consistently use SI units, the 25 mph speed limit is converted to 11 m/s.

  KE = 0.5 * m * v^2
  KE_ebike = KE_car
  0.5 * m_ebike * v_ebike^2 = 0.5 * m_car * v_car^2
  0.5 * 23 * v_ebike^2 = 0.5 * 1360 * 11^2
  Solving for v_ebike:
  v_ebike = 84.6 m/s
  Converting to mph:
  v_ebike = 189 mph

  It seems that, in order to remain logically consistent with the 25 mph speed limit for cars, the speed limit for e-bikes would be 189 mph.

  Am I actually proposing a 189 mph speed limit for e-bikes? No, that would be silly. Rather, I’m simply pointing out the hypocrisy that smaller, lighter vehicles with a better safety record should be limited to a lower speed than larger, heavier vehicles with a well-documented poor safety record.

  So what’s it going to be? Data-driven public policy calibrated to maximize the safety of New Yorkers? Or feelings-based public policy calibrated to appease the biases of a vocal minority? My position is that we need to dispense with these distractions, and continue to mitigate the danger posed by the number one threat to safety on our streets: Cars and trucks.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:23pm

• Zach

  I am opposed to this rule change.

  Alternative transportation to cars, especially bicycle, is vital to the health of our communities and quality of life in New York City. We should be encouraging alternative transportation and making it safer, not more dangerous as this change would be doing.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:23pm

• Anne Richardson

  To make one speed for bikes and another for cars is nonsensical.
  Perhaps reduce ALL VEHICLES to 20 MPH?
  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill hundred-plus every year. We should be building MORE bike capacity for a healthier,safer New York, as many cities worldwide have done. Better lanes would mean less sidewalk
  And add penalties for delivery app companies that demand an unsafe pace of work for their workers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:24pm

• Katherine Nicholson

  On Thursday, July 10th I received a ticket for riding a citibike through an intersection at ~5mph.

  At this intersection, Bergen and 6th in Brooklyn, many many cars run red lights to sit and block the box. Does the city plan to ticket these drivers? The focus from the officer was “on e-bike riders today”.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:24pm

• Adrienne Mau

  This legislation will halt the traction that has been made in NYC by moving residents, employees, and visitors like myself to active transportation. As another commenter stated “Why should an e-bike be limited to 15 mph from 20 mph when a Dodge Charger with illegal modified exhaust system can speed by a school every day at 55 mph with no consequences? Think about the economic implications of this as well. You have a bustling industry through UberEats and DoorDash where many employees are delivering food and other goods not by car, but by bike. We should develop bike infrastructure to accommodate and support this.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:25pm

• MKF

  I’m writing to call for the reversal of the 15MPH ebike speed limit, which is a nanny-state policy with the goal of flexing this administration’s power, not creating safer streets like the administration wrongfully claims. Several reasons:
  -Over-policing immigrants and delivery workers: this cap will increase the instances that delivery workers and immigrants come in contact with law enforcement, in a time where they are extremely at risk for unlawful detention.
  -Punishing cyclists for being the victim of motor deaths: Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro cites deaths of cyclists on ebikes as a reason for this policy, but the majority of cyclist deaths involve a motor vehicle, not the fact that an ebike has sufficient power to safely navigate a rider through traffic.
  -Using Sammy’s law against cyclists: While Sammy’s Law was passed at the state level to prevent pedestrian and cyclist deaths at the hands of motor vehicles, the Adams administration has done barely anything to implement it. It’s offensive to now invoke this policy against cyclists, after activists have spent years advocating for vehicular speed limits that would actually create safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:26pm

• Rebecca H

  Rules should be created based on actual data and not on feelings. This proposed rule attempts to address the perception of danger caused by ebikes, while in fact speeding cars and trucks are a much more significant danger to all road users. It is unfair to target ebike riders with criminal summonses and potential jail time while car and truck drivers only receive tickets for speeding. If studies determine that 15 mph speed limits are the best option, that same speed limit should apply to cars and trucks as well. Additionally, this rule would be essentially unenforceable so it’s really a waste of time to pursue.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:27pm

• james schlefer

  The proposed speed limit on bikes is bad. How will it be enforced? There’s no enforcement on cars, so how will it be done with bikes? This is a bad idea.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:27pm

• Luke Szumyckyj

  I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed rule limiting e-bikes, e-scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles to 15mph on NYC streets.

  The proposed 15mph limit conflicts with established federal regulations that classify e-bikes into three categories, with Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes legally permitted to operate at speeds up to 20mph. New York State follows these federal classifications. Creating a lower municipal speed limit creates unnecessary regulatory confusion and may conflict with state law.

  A 15mph speed limit will significantly reduce the transportation utility of e-bikes, making them less competitive with other modes of transport. This will discourage adoption of an environmentally friendly transportation option. This directly undermines the city’s climate and congestion reduction goals.

  The proposed rule will create dangerous speed differentials between regular bicycles, cars, and e-bikes. Experienced cyclists on traditional bikes can easily exceed 15mph, creating more dangerous passing situations and lane conflicts. Additionally, the significant speed differential between cars traveling at 25mph+ and e-bikes artificially capped at 15mph will create hazardous conditions when e-bikes need to interact with vehicle traffic or navigate mixed-use roadways.

  The practical enforcement of this rule will be extremely difficult and resource intensive. It would be nearly impossible for the NYPD to enforce this fairly and consistently across the city’s vast network of bike lanes and streets. There is no existing infrastructure for measuring bike speeds consistently. Also, officers would need to distinguish e-bikes from regular bicycles while they’re moving. Many e-bikes look identical to regular bikes. This would require officers to spot small motors or batteries. Additionally, some e-bikes can operate in pedal-only mode, making identification even harder.

  The city government will absolutely see an increase in lawsuits where the NYPD will need to prove that officers were adequately trained to distinguish e-bikes from regular bicycles, that the speed reading was accurate, and that proper enforcement procedures were followed. All of this will be costly to defend and difficult to establish consistently in court.

  Instead of imposing blanket speed limits, I urge the DOT to consider:
  1. PLEASE invest in better bike lane design, clearer signage, and rider education programs
  2. Conduct comprehensive studies on e-bike crash rates and causes before implementing broad restrictions

  This proposed rule is a solution in search of a problem. E-bikes are a crucial part of NYC’s transportation future, providing clean, efficient mobility for residents and workers. The 15mph speed limit will undermine these benefits without demonstrable safety improvements. This would require significant officer time and training for no reason.

  I urge the DOT to withdraw this proposed rule and instead focus on infrastructure improvements and targeted safety measures that don’t compromise the fundamental utility of e-bikes. This is going to make everyone’s lives harder.

  Thank you for considering these comments.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:28pm

• Benjamin Gallai

  I wholeheartedly object to this rule change so long as automobiles are not similarly speed limited. The hyper-focus on ebikes (and the vulnerable immigrant workers who often use them) by both news media and city government is irresponsible and absurd as long as car drivers kill hundreds of New Yorkers every year and kill thousands more.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:30pm

• Richard Conroy

  I support a 15mph limit on e-bikes. It is not unfair. In fact, it reflects the average if not top speed of most people riding regular bikes. Industry standards that can let someone ride a bicycle at elite Tour de France speeds without turning a pedal have turned our bike facilities into a race track. The bike advocates who are saying it’s a “war on bikes” seem to have forgotten that for years they have been advocating “laws that reflect how people really behave” … so in reality most people can’t ride at 20mph, much less 28 mph on their own. Let’s have e-bike speeds that reflect how fast most people can ride. Speed kills!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:31pm

• Alexander Hartnett

  BAd idea to enact this

  need a more measured response to E bikes and safety –could start with requiring working lights on all e bikes

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:31pm

• Samantha Orme

  This rule is fatally flawed and must be rejected.

  I ride my kids to school on an ebike, and I can tell you that this is going to make it more likely that I get into my car instead, causing more traffic and fewer parking spaces to be available. Disincentivizing biking is the worst possible policy move you could make in a city with such a high population density (and arguably, anywhere.)

  Furthermore, people biking at 20mph are really not the safety issue here. Try these tips from someone who bikes around the city every damn day:
  * Start enforcing the existing 20mph law in the bike lane and pull over all the people that are riding motorcycles at 40mph down them.
  * Start enforcing car speed limits, red light laws, and other dangerous behavior by cars that cause far more deaths than bikes ever will.
  * Reduce the speed limit to 20mph for CARS

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:32pm

• Michael Flynn

  I don’t understand the safety rationale of limiting speeds for e-bikes when, #1, nearly all pedestrian injuries and fatalities are due to motor vehicles, not e-bikes; and #2, it is lower than the speed limit for motor vehicles, which are heavier and more deadly. In other words, why should e-bike riders have a lower speed limit than motor vehicles, which are clearly deadlier? It makes no sense. Please note that I am submitting this comment as a private citizen who uses both e-bikes and an automobile, not based on my work affiliation.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:32pm

• Eugene Murphy

  There should be no 15 mph speed limit on electric Citi bikes. Most of New Yorks streets do not have adequate safety protections for e-bikes, leading to many situations where it is necessary to speed up to avoid being hit by a car. By limiting the speed as you propose, you will be contributing to cyclists deaths. You will also decrease the demand for e-bikes, at a time when the gains of bicycle ridership have been helping reduce pollution, congestion, and car killings in New York. Do not limit the speed of E-bikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:33pm

• Laura Ball

  This is a terrible proposed rule because it does not have the effect of creating a safer environment for pedestrians and cyclists. Rather, efforts should be made to enforce existing traffic violations, particularly required stops at intersections for all vehicles. Similarly, pedal-assist bicycles for commuters and families should not be conflated with the mopeds that often use bike lanes at high speeds.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:36pm

• Stephan Cotton

  I strongly support the new rule. E-bike riders are far more dangerous to pedestrians than drivers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:36pm

• Daniel Tsai

  Cycling and walking is safer than automobiles. Speed limits should NOT be imposed on cyclists or pedestrians.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:37pm

• Ellen Davidson

  As an avid biker for more than 40 years in the city, I am concerned about the safety hazards posed by the enormous increase in the use of e-bikes and scooters and the disregard of traffic laws by some users of these vehicles (as well as by riders of traditional pedal-powered bikes). In addition to endangering pedestrians and other riders, these inconsiderate individuals give all bikers a bad name. I do not believe, however, that the solution is to impose criminal sanctions on e-bike riders traveling more than 16 miles an hour while operators of larger, more deadly vehicles would only get a traffic ticket for going 40 miles an hour. Such punishments would fall hardest on some of the hardest working New Yorkers, not to mention that it could have serious follow-on consequences for immigrants, who are already vulnerable in this age of out-of-control ICE actions. Stronger enforcement of existing laws against riding against traffic and ignoring traffic signals, plus a vigorous public campaign promoting responsible vehicular operation would go much further toward reaching our shared goal of safer streets for everyone.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:37pm

• Michael Smith

  The 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes is ridiculous and pointless. It does nothing to protect street safety and just makes an incredibly useful and environmental friendly means of transportation less effective. Bump it up to 25 mph. The enforcement element is similarly senseless – why are e-bike riders getting criminal summons when drivers running red light merely get a fine (if anything at all)? The NYPD should focus enforcement on cars.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:38pm

• Barak Friedman

  Subject: Opposing a 15 MPH Speed Limit for E-Bikes in NYC

  I strongly oppose the proposed 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes in New York City. This policy would be arbitrary, counterproductive, and unfairly target low-income workers and delivery riders who rely on e-bikes to do their jobs efficiently.

  Enforcement of this rule would likely lead to more over-policing of immigrant and working-class New Yorkers rather than safer streets.

  Instead of penalizing e-bike users, the city should focus on better infrastructure, including protected bike lanes and traffic calming for cars. Safety comes from street design, not arbitrary speed limits on the most vulnerable road users.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:38pm

• Dawn Marie Brekke

  You can’t criminalize biking in New York City!!!! Enforce safety and teach bikers and car riders safe etiquette.

  Sincerly, Dawn Brekke

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:39pm

• Diana Pearl

  I think these ebike restrictions are not well thought through. The punishments for ebike enfractions are draconian. Far more pedestrians are killed by cars and yet a speeding car gets only a ticket. If anything bikes should get lesser penalties for being
  cleaner, healthier, and creating less traffic congestion. Vote no please!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:41pm

• Lauren Weber

  Criminalizing cycling deters the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to help this city run smoothly. As a mother who rides her children through Manhattan daily, I call on the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. I want to see citations for high speed car drivers who block intersects and drive recklessly.

  Keep NYC livable; keep NYC biking!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:42pm

• Melanie

  I do not support the rule because this will be more dangerous for bikes, pedestrians and cars alike! Lowering the speed of bikes will increase risks for bikes on the road forcing them onto the footpath or electric scooters into bike lanes. The City of NY needs to enforce existing rules and cars need to stop harassing cyclists (only yesterday I had a driver tailgate me obviously forgetting that if I’m hit I’m dead, these drivers forget they have the power!). Yes some cyclists are dangerous and put themselves and pedestrians at risk and I do not support this – they should be fined and penalized – but so should cars breaking the law. Too many violations are ignored by police patrolling the streets. The biggest numbers of police ever but no one holding violators accountable!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:42pm

• Katrina Skovan

  I urge you to NOT approve the 15mph e-bike speed limit bill. DOT should instead be working on ways to better integrate e-bike and scooter traffic into road design. The real threats to human life are cars and trucks. Laws and street designs that slow drivers and encourage pedestrian, bikes, and transit are infinitely better solutions. 

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:42pm

• Harry COLLINS

  I think e-bike speed punishment is draconian and speed left at 20 mph.
  There should be distinction from e-bikes
  that requiring pedaling and bikes that are run by throttle and not required pedaling.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:44pm

• Ehren Gresehover

  It is preposterous that the rider of a 50-lb. bike going 16 mph would face stiffer penalties than the driver of a 2000-lb SUV going 40 mph through a red light. This rule change seems designed to placate special interests to make the streets of the city less safe, by discouraging safer, healthier modes of transit. It also seems like it will result in more of a burden and hazard for New Yorkers who are among the most vulnerable members of society. Do not implement this harsh, unfair and illogical rule change.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:47pm

• Josh Bodnar

  Enforcing an e bike speed limit is an arbitrary and useless step when many other steps could actually improve pedestrian safety. The real threat to pedestrian safety is cars not e bikes. We all rely on e-bike delivery bikers and it’s time to treat them with respect and not scape goat them for pedestrian injuries.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:51pm

• Marya Pasciuto

  I’ve been a Citi Bike member since 2019, and I strongly disagree with the 15MPH speed cap on ebikes and join the call for the 18MPH cap to be reinstated. The speed reduction was not informed by any research on safety, and there’s no evidence that riders or other road users are safer since the change was implemented.

  On the other hand, it’s irrefutable that Citi Bike users are paying more per mile for an inferior experience than we had just weeks ago. I also have not felt safe riding at the lower top speed when surrounded by drivers who routinely blow past the city’s 30MPH speed limit.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:53pm

• Benjamin Luehrs

  Street safety is important for all New Yorkers, especially for families, seniors, and people with disabilities. We should implement evidence based rules that focus on the biggest dangers. The biggest dangers on our streets are automobiles, which way thousands of pounds, often speed at over 40 mph, and have gigantic blind spots that make seeing pedestrians extremely difficult. A speed limit for bikes can make sense, but only if implemented alongside a speed limit for cars that properly treat heavier and less maneuverable cars as the biggest danger. If the bike speed limit is 15 mph, the car speed limit should be equal to that or more logically considering cars pose a greater danger to pedestrians, 10 mph. Personally I believe there should be a well enforced universal 20 mph speed limit for all vehicles to make the rules of the road simple for everyone.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:54pm

• Peter W. Beadle

  I do not support the rule change.

  The proposed rule would impose a speed limit that is lower than the European Cities DOT is comparing their action to. Moreover, it penalizes e-bike riders unfairly and places them in greater jeopardy – physically and legally – than the drivers of far more dangerous motor vehicles. Most importantly it will fail to achieve its stated purpose of making our streets safer as the primary danger to all road users are the much more massive and faster cars and trucks on our roads.

  Some European Cities have set an e-bike speed limit of 25kph, which is closer to 16mph. Moreover, even at that speed, there are many regular pedal bikes that can easily achieve such speeds, so requiring e-bikes to travel slower than regular pedal bikes is unfair and non-sensical as the difference in mass between most e-bikes and regular pedal bikes is minor (people often conflate e-bikes with “mopeds” which are bulkier and more massive). A 20 mph speed limit, a speed that Class 1 and 2 e-bikes already receive no motor assist above would both be fairer and more in line with the speeds of other bicycles and avoid the confusion created by having one speed limit for electric assist potential and a separate speed limit for actual operation of the bike.

  Additionally, the proposed rule has no provision for any grace. Car drivers are not ticketed by automated cameras (the primary means of enforcing speed limits) unless they are traveling at 10mph over the posted speed limit. Yet this rule would set a strict limit of 15mph. That is fundamentally unfair and treats one class of road users very differently than another. It also defies logic to have a stricter enforcement rule for a mode of transportation responsible for less than 1% of serious traffic injuries and deaths than for the mode responsible for 98% of such injuries and death. Again, setting the speed limit at 20 mph would “build in” a reasonable amount of grace, while being more fair and easier to comply with.

  Finally, this rule change like several proposals that have come before the NYC Council recently, is not truly focused on street safety, but instead is part of a backlash over bicycle use, especially e-bike use, and exaggerated perceptions of the dangers posed by such bicycles. Less than 1% of serious injuries and deaths result from crashes of such vehicles, and most of those are to the operators themselves, not others. Cars and trucks meanwhile cause almost all the rest of the serious injuries and deaths on our streets. NYC has been granted the power through the State’s “Sammy’s Law” to reduce the speed limit for all vehicles to 20mph on most of the City’s streets. If the goal of the DOT is truly to improve street safety, then a more rational approach would be to lower the City-wide speed limit for all vehicles to 20 mph.

  I strongly encourage the DOT to not adopt the proposed rule and to instead lower the speed limit for all vehicles City-wide to 20 mph.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:54pm

• AMANDA FRIEDMAN

  I see no reason why this rule is applied to bikes, but not to other vehicles. How do you rationalize imposing a low speed limit on bikes while letting heavier and more dangerous vehicles speed? Please be consistent and rational in your rule-making. If you choose to lower the speed limit, do so for all vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:55pm

• E

  All vehicles on our streets should follow the rules of the road, but it is absurd to have such severe penalties for an e-bike moving at 16 mph, while cars frequently committ far more serious moving violations and receive only a ticket. In my neighborhood, the police do not stop cars (weighing between 2,800 – 4,500 pounds on average) for frequent serious speed violations and running red lights – these moving violations are FAR more dangerous than a 50 pound e-bike moving at less than 20mph. Look at the statistics for car-related pedestrian death and injury, not to mention car crashes resulting in death and injury, and compare them to the statistics for e-bikes… the focus on e-bikes is completely insane and only serves to distract from the real danger that cars present every day.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:56pm

• Jacob Neufeld

  Multiple studies have shown that biking in traffic is safer for both the rider and the drivers if the bikes are going similar speeds to the cars. This rule would make biking even more unsafe in a city that is already hostile to bike riders.

  Additionally, this rule would create a separate class of people subject to laws since non ebikes are not subject to the rule and often travel at speeds equal to, or higher than ebikes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:56pm

• Jerise Fogel

  Look: the rule doesn’t make sense. Any e-bike rules should reflect other similar traffic guidelines and rules–for example, car rules that limit speed and use TICKETING as their enforcement mechanism. If you don’t want to do this, you should start criminalizing car and SUV drivers too.

  Under this rule, a person on a 50 pound e-bike could get sent to criminal court or risk arrest for going 16 mph. Meanwhile, the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV could speed 40 mph through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket. This rule is nonsensical and dangerous, putting people on bikes at risk while car drivers continue to speed right next to them.

  Just DON’T DO THIS.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:56pm

• Janet Liff

  Dear City Council,

  This is one of the silliest rules I’ve seen proposed. Would you recommend different speeds for cars, based on their size? Should a small car have a higher speed limit on the road bed because the driver can stop faster than a truck Proposing different speeds for different conveyances on the road bed would lead to mayhem and danger. And this is what you are proposing here. When there is no bike lane, bikes are instructed to take a lane. When a bike is in a travel lane, the cyclists tries to move at the speed of travel, whether that be 10 mph or 20 mph. Telling a cyclist that they have to move slower will lead to confusion and crashed. Please expose this proposed rule for the falacy it is and vote against it. Thank you.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:58pm

• Paul Henri Doble

  The option to go as fast as 20 miles an hour is a NECESSITY for cyclists to get themselves out of dangerous situations such as clearing traffic bottle necks or cross streets before a collision can occur, or merging into car traffic because a driver is parked in the bike lane. Taking that option away from cyclists makes everyone less safe. Especially since drivers, who are PROVEN to be orders of magnitude deadlier than cyclists, are not forced to slow down EVEN WHEN THEY BREAK THE LAW hundreds of times a year. The city’s resources are better spent creating more and better bike infrastructure. This proposed amendment is a dumb idea.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 12:59pm

• Abigail Nitka

  I am writing to OPPOSE the 15 mph limit on E-bikes.

  My husband and I commute on Citibike e-bikes multiple times per day all over the city and have done so for years. The ability to control the speed of these heavy bikes and to speed up or slow down as necessary to avoid cars is crucial to our ability to avoid dangerous situations. 15 mph is simply too slow to maneuver these large bikes on city streets in all situations. Further we know and understand that cars kill pedestrians in New York – not bikes. Please abandon this rule. It doesn’t make sense and New Yorkers know it.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:00pm

• Michael Flinck

  I am opposed to a 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes. It would make it unsafe for e-bikes to ride on the street, in traffic, where we belong and instead incentivizes riders to ride on sidewalks because the bikes are too slow for traffic.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:01pm

• Alexa Sledge

  I’m in strong opposition to this rule — it makes no sense, it’s not backed up by the tiniest shred of research or data, and it will certainly lead to discriminatory enforcement. It’s embarrassing to see New York City move in this direction when over 200 of us are killed by cars and trucks every year.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:01pm

• Michael Riley

  I am opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. This is unnecessary and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  As you know, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause thousands and thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is absured to require any pedal powered or electric bikes to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  We need to encourage MORE people to use bikes.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Biking is not a crime! Let’s not treat cyclists like criminals.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:01pm

• Carl Nelson

  We should be enabling more ebike usage and encouraging the reduction of car traffic and speeds not cutting speed limits for e-bikes to 15mph.

  This doesn’t make our city safer, it continues to deflect the actual dangers on our streets which is speeding cars, a lack of dedicated and separated bike lanes, fully daylighted intersections, and more pedestrian space.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:01pm

• Mary Mcnulty

  I believe this bill to penalize bike riders in such a harmful way is unfair. My husband killed by a motorcycle going over 60 miles an hour was not penalized in any way. So now we’re going to make bike riders get misdemeanors or higher penalties whereas cars typically disregard traffic rules and they are allowed to do whatever they want in so many cases. We witness this on the streets. Please reconsider your bill

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:02pm

• Elaine Lamm

  The 15 MPH speed limits puts cyclists endanger in areas they have to bike in traffic with cars. It slows down all traffic.
  This change was made without any studies and seems to be politically motivated as a way to ticket cyclists of color as well.
  Additionally what is the focus on over policing cyclists when cars are responsible for the overwhelming majority of pedestrians deaths. Can’t we get the same energy to reduce car speeds. Please enact Sammy’s law across the city before one more person dies.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:03pm

• Andrea Ferguson

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!”

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:05pm

• Julia Kite-Laidlaw

  I am the former Director of Safety Policy for NYC DOT and I am writing in opposition to this rule. During my time at the agency, I believed it was crucial that all policy positions be strongly evidence-based. I do not believe the rationale for this rule change is solid, not does it address the primary causes of traffic deaths and serious injuries in New York City. Furthermore, by dissuading the use of e-bikes, it runs the risk of increasing safety hazards through a loss of the “safety in numbers” effect.

  One of my proudest achievements during my time with the City was the expansion and enhancements of the speed safety camera program. These cameras issue a $50 ticket to the registered owner of a vehicle traveling 10 mph or more over the speed limit (de facto 36 mph trigger in almost all locations). There are no points on a driver’s license or any criminal penalty. This rule, however, would potentially impose a harsh penalty on an e-bike rider for traveling less than half the minimum speed of a car or truck that triggers a speed camera. The punishment simply does not reflect the hazard of the action.

  The notice of rulemaking states, “The current speed limit of 25 miles per hour for human powered devices would remain unchanged. Human powered devices would not be subject to this lower speed limit because they are lighter devices compared to e-devices, which are heavier due to their motor and battery.” It is true that an e-bike typically weighs between 50-80 pounds, compared to a pedal bicycle at roughly 20-35. But I find it hard to read that line with a straight face, and believe that safety is the primary concern, when you consider the typical SUV on the streets of New York weighs in excess of 3500 pounds. If the City of New York wants to prioritize ending road deaths, then focus on the far heavier, far more prevalent vehicles involved in the vast majority of fatal crashes.

  I have no objection to capping the speed of shared e-bikes or e-scooters at levels below the current maximum, as these devices are often used by novices unfamiliar with their operation. But for owners of personal micromobility devices, most of which do not come equipped with speedometers, there is no need to arbitrarily restrict speed below what the State has already decided while allowing a much higher limit for larger, more destructive vehicles that data shows are the primary hazard.

  This rule makes a mockery of the Vision Zero policy that New York could proudly show to the rest of the country as a shining example of following the data.

  Sincerely,
  Julia Kite-Laidlaw

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:06pm

• Jeremy Espenshade

  I am a father to a 4 year old and we live in Chelsea. Every day we cross multiple bike lanes on the way to school, parks, and libraries. But by far the most likely thing that could hurt my child is a car.
  Criminalizing cycling will only serve to encourage more driving, replacing a small risk with a large one.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:06pm

• AJ Bayer

  The City fails to take action on most speeding, red light running, and other dangerous behavior by drivers. This proposed rule targets a group of road users that comparatively cause extremely few injuries. Why should an e-bike be limited to 15 mph from 20 mph when a Dodge Charger with illegal modified exhaust system can speed by a school every day at 55 mph with no consequences? Thank you

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:08pm

• Lucas Fitzgerald

  Why criminalize cycling, it’s so dumb and unnecessary when we are surrounded by 5 ton vehicles blasting around the city (and set Citibike free for the love of god).

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:08pm

• Elido De leon

  Make it at least 20 MPH.
  New Yorkers don’t don’t have enough time to get to work at 15 MPH that speed.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:12pm

• Siobhan Dunne

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime! Biking is the future!!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:12pm

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  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:12pm

• Joseph Davis

  I knew an NYPD officer who was killed by a speeding car-driver. I do not know anyone who was killed by a speeding cyclist. Both speeding car-drivers and speeding cyclists are bad. They should be held equally accountable.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:13pm

• Siobhan Dunne

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime! Biking is the future!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:13pm

• Daniel G. Hill

  I am a near-daily bike rider in NYC and constantly fear for my safety due to the reckless and lawless behavior of e-bike riders.
  I fully support the 15MPH limit for e-bikes and e scooters. But we still need rider accountability to make our streets safer. We must have license and registration for all E Vehicles -Priscilla’s Law (0606-2024) so that the 15MPH limit will be enforced by traffic cameras which can identify the behavior of an egregious rider by license plate and issue a ticket. And, so that riders who, so often, flee the scene of crashes can be identified! This is common sense. Priscilla’s Law will actually change dangerous rider behavior.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:14pm

• Michael Huarachi

  I do not support this proposal! Stop attacking bicycles! Start limiting speeds of cars! You are fighting the wrong fight.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:15pm

• Dave Speranza

  It’s unclear to me why we would restrict 50lb e-bikes to 15 mph, but allow 4,000 lb cars to move at 25 mph.

  Cars kill. E-bikes simply don’t, in all but the rarest of cases. E-bikes being able to go 20 mph or so makes them a reasonable alternative to car trips in many cases. Every time someone replaces a car trip with an e-bike trip, people are less likely to die.

  Bad idea.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:21pm

• Clarence Eckerson

  I use an e-bike to mostly get around these days and also shuttle my child to places. I tore my meniscus in 2021 and ever since walking more than a 1/2 mile has become difficult/painful. When I ride, I probably very rarely even crest 15mph, maybe 10% of the time. But those times are usually vital to avoid dangerous interactions with vehicles or to stay ahead of one as drivers love to speed up to turns and try to pass dangerously in front of you.

  Further, if the city plans on writing tickets when an e-bike hits 16mph – this is flat out preposterous. Right now the speed limit for cars is 25, they get an additional +10 (grace period) making it 36 when they get a ticket for driving dangerously. So 1 to 2 ton vehicles can go DOUBLE the speed of when bikes do which average in weight from 15 to about 60 pounds. There is no logic in that.

  Now if we were talking about a 20mph speed limit with no grace period, that I might be in favor of. But there are times where bike riders need to get exceed 15mph and shouldn’t have to worry about getting hit with a ticket going 16, 17, 18 when they are trying to maximize safety on NYC’s streets.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:21pm

• Sandra Sobanski

  Stop attacking bikers and bike lanes! So corrupt!!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:22pm

• Larry Zuckerman

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit on several grounds. First, it is a policy that won’t solve the problem. It is difficult to enforce a speed limit on bicycles and the policy will be ripe for selective enforcement.

  The problem is riders on e-bikes scaring pedestrians by zipping past them or riding the wrong way on streets. The answer is not an arbitrary speed limit but improved infrastructure. Cyclists and pedestrians need to be separated in their own protected lanes. This has worked in practice! For the few who violate traffic rules, better enforcement is needed, but not to charge violators criminally.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  We should be encouraging people to not use cars by making it easier for them to walk and ride bikes. The better answer is to invest in new infrastructure and public education. The answer is not to pass new laws when existing laws are not being enforced. Let’s get illegal motor bikes off the streets.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:22pm

• Sandra Sobanski

  Please support biking in NY!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:23pm

• Scott F

  E-bike is a misnomer.
  They are motorcycles and should be treated as such.

  They should not be in bike lanes with their silent terror and disregard for cyclists and pedestrians.

  I am an avid bike rider and have been cycling the streets of NYC for more than 30 years, and strongly support bike lanes as bikes are the best way to get around the city.

  However, motorcycles should require license plates and drivers licenses.

  If you need a motor to get around get a license

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:23pm

• Courtney Hirsch

  I strongly oppose the proposed 15 mph speed limit on bicycles (ebikes or standard bikes).

  The greatest threats to street safety are dangerous drivers and poorly designed streets.

  I implore you to think bigger and explore design solutions that truly solve the problems we all face on overcrowded streets—solutions that make it possible for all street users (pedestrians, cyclists, those using mobility devices, delivery trucks, and personal vehicles) to use the street safely rather than unfairly penalizing cyclists who are trying to adapt to roads that weren’t designed with them in mind.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:24pm

• Scott St.Marie

  This is just crazy. How about enforcing car speed limits and stop lights. That’s where people are getting hurt or killed.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:26pm

• Thomas Kelly

  This is a poor idea. Once you start putting speed regulators on cars, I’ll get on board with this

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:28pm

• Cory Clifton

  The proposal to limit e-bikes to 15mph defies logic and is clearly a political play in an election year. An e-bike has vastly less kinetic energy than a multi-ton automobile traveling at the same speed, yet this proposal intends to further limit e-bikes while car and truck drivers continue injuring and killing pedestrians at immensely higher rates.

  15mph is a laughably slow speed – a small child can exceed that on an unpowered bicycle, and cyclists of all types often need to accelerate past 15mph to avoid reckless and aggressive drivers. This proposal would hamstring safety and become another way for law enforcement to arbitrarily harass vulnerable New Yorkers.

  I urge the DOT to reject this bizarre and brazenly political proposal, unless the speed limit is also lowered to 15mph for all non-human-powered vehicles, including all cars and trucks.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:33pm

• Theodore

  As a self propelled bicycle commuter (i.e. I ride a bicycle…I pedal…imagine that!), I welcome this rule. Especially for those maniacs on super 73s, (which are basically electric motorcycles) and similar. They are out of control and should have to register their death machines. And never be allowed in the bike lane on the bridge. They’re moving faster than the cars and have zero respect for cyclists. Also the e scooters (which are illegal based on NYC carriage laws…google it!) . They are out of control and dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. Thank you Mayor Adams! – PS – the captcha made me click on squares that had motorcycles in them. I own one of those too…but I don’t ride in the bike lane!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:36pm

• Suzanne Simmons

  This rule is absurd. SUVs that kill children continue to drive at 35 mph while bikes at 15 are criminalized. This will only make our city more dangerous and deadly.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:37pm

• Maura Sheedy

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:39pm

• Michael

  Do not add these speed limitations! Let the workers work and let the e-citibikes function as intended.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:39pm

• Jasper DeAntonio

  I do not support this rule change to 15 mph. It targets a specific population of traveler when bikers are improving the city. More legislation should be passed and enforcement pursued to ensure cars are traveling at safe speeds and car use is reduced citywide. This bicycle is a waste of city resources.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:39pm

• Jon Graham

  E-bikes should not be subject to different speed limits than those for other vehicles or national standards (20 and 28MPH). However, a case can be made that the lower speeds be applicable for public space where cars are currently prohibited, such as bike lanes, plazas and parks.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:47pm

• Wendy Williams

  It’s crazy to have stiff legal penalties for e-bikes going 16 mph, when a giant car can endanger everyone and just get a ticket. Why not enforce other sensible safety rules, like only bikes in the bike lane and no vehicles on the sidewalk? I’m often almost run over on the sidewalk by full-size motorcycles or in the crosswalk by SUVs racing through a redlight.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:48pm

• MD RAZID

  I do support this amendment. All these reckless, aggressive bikers should be brought under regulation. As someone who works with accident cases and personal injury cases, including workers’ compensation as an Interpreter, most of the cases I see involve bicyclists running into a car or getting hit by a car or truck because they don’t stay in their assigned bicycle lanes. They don’t wear proper reflective gear at night; they drive recklessly , they don’t stop at stop signs or red lights, and they don’t care about pedestrians . On top of that, on the bridges where only one lane is dedicated for pedestrians and bicycles together are another dangerous place. As someone who walks from Queens to Manhattan over the 59 bridge, I witness firsthand Winter criminals who hop on bicycles to mug lone pedestrians on the bridge. Some drug addicts or seasonal addicts, high on bicycles, would assault pedestrians on the bridge. I was assaulted on the 59 bridge during winter at 9 PM as I was walking. I reached out to the police, the transportation commissioner, and related departments to file a complaint and demand a separate lane for bicyclists on the 59 bridge to safeguard public safety. I reached out to Transportation Alternatives, but they are radical lunatics who do not care for public safety. I still have their email replies, and they were disgraceful. My demand was to open the existing extra shoulder on the 59 bridge for the public or bicyclists (either one), which was being used for cars. The transportation department did not agree to that proposal, but I kept writing to them, and after two years, a month ago, the existing extra shoulder was allocated for pedestrians. But now I see scooters recklessly running in that pedestrian lane on the 59 bridge, coming from any direction and bumping into people. I want the law to ensure the highest punishment for these traffic breakers and that bicyclists, moped riders, scooter riders, and e-bikers, whether personal or commercial, should face criminal charges when they endanger public safety. They should follow proper traffic rules and not think they are above the law. This attitude has made most bicyclists reckless and dangerous to public safety.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:49pm

• Camden Udwin

  This law seems like it was created to appease a vocal minority of ill-informed reactionary citizens. The stats are clear, cars and trucks kill hundreds of New Yorkers every year while e-bikes may be responsible for one or two deaths. The solution to both problems is better infrastructure that gives e-bikes more safe space to ride while also lowering the speed of cars and trucks. DOT failed to do this on Sunset Park’s 3rd avenue and two more pedestrians were killed by a car driver last week. Let’s focus on the real issue of our hazardous car culture and stop criminalizing New York’s working-class e-bike riders.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:50pm

• Fred Arthur Tenzer

  Do not change the speed limit for e-bikes to 15 miles per hour, e-bikes are no more dangerous than cars, the speed limit for e-bikes ought to be the same as the speed limit for cars.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:55pm

• Abu Nayeem

  I understand pedestrian safety concerns of co-existing with e-bikes. However, the speed restriction placed on e-bikes doesn’t address the underlying behaviors which is curbing reckless behavior and/or close call scenarios. In addition, the 15 mph speed restriction is less than 20mph restriction placed on vehicles. The operating bicycles will cause further congestion of vehicles behind them and dangerous conditions of vehicles going around cyclist.

  Alternatives to address quality of life concerns can be
  1) dedicated cycling infrastructure to discourage sidewalk usage.
  2) “Bicycle roundabouts” where cyclists does not have a straight path, and need to slow down
  3) Daylighting of traffic-dense intersections where increased street visibility is beneficial for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike
  4) Regulate Delivery App Companies

  Comment added July 14, 2025 1:57pm

• David Pimentel

  As a New Yorker who does not own a car, and is primarily a pedestrian and a cyclist, I am vehemently opposed to this proposed rule. How can we criminalize a biker exceeding 15 miles an hour, when a car can go well over that speed, cause way more harm, and only get a ticket? I appreciate concern for public safety but this proposal is wildly misguided and does not keep anyone safer, in fact it will put some of the most vulnerable in our population (immigrant workers) at risk of interactions with ICE. If you are concerned about street safety, I encourage you to pass Sammy’s Law, where ALL vehicles remain under 20 mph.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:05pm

• Scott Hampton

  This proposed rule is misguided, blaming the victims of car-centric and badly planned infrastructure for the problems created by lack of bike infrastructure.
  Our priority should be focusing on the thousands of injuries and deaths caused by motorists, while providing more infrastructure for bikes so they are not forced to share space with pedestrians.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:05pm

• George Chan

  I oppose the ruling to add speed restrictions to people with ebikes. I transport my 5-year-old daughter using an electronic bike. You want to criminalize and restrict my liberty and freedom to commute via electronic bicycle? Electronic bicycle is the most viable, efficient, and common-sense way for me to take my daughter to school, camp, and activities.

  Our family also owns a car, and logically speaking, e-bicycling is our preferred means of getting around the city. We aren’t consuming fossil fuels, spewing pollution out tailpipes, taking up parking spaces, double-parking and blocking traffic. Don’t discourage us from bicycling by unfairly criminalizing people who choose to cycle.

  Doesn’t seem fair that if I break the speed limit on a bicycle, I would go to criminal court, but if a motor vehicle breaks the speed limit they only receive a traffic ticket.

  Surely there are other ways to regulate and affect policy to fairly manage safety concerns for ALL commuters. My family and household opposes this ruling.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:06pm

• Joshua McDaniel

  As a resident of Brooklyn and frequent Citibike user, I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:07pm

• Patrick Byrne

  This is absolute nonsense and a distraction. People are murdered every day by reckless drivers, drunk drivers, red light runners and speeders.
  Cars weigh at the high end four tons, and move as fast as 80mph on city streets – indeed its all too common to hear outrageous speeds involved in pedestrian fatalities.

  Traffic fatalities almost never invovle criminal penalties being pursued against the murderer. And in the absence of a fatality, tickets for these types of infractions amount to civil penalties or misdemeanors.

  Ebikes, with their battery included do not weigh even 100lbs, or 0.05 tons. They move at most 30mph. The potential for destruction is almost 100 times less.

  Eric Adams is a schmuck, a criminal, and all of his instincts are wrong stupid and insane. He is a lame duck. He will not be mayor next term and you owe him nothing.

  Pursuing this regressive, stupid law that gratuitously punishes use of vehicles that are overwhelmingly ridden by poor, immigrants and are carbon neutral, slow light and safe while nothing is done to rein in bridge and tunnel white assholes in their two ton trucks that run us down in the streets will not be forgotten when it is your turns to stand for election.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:11pm

• Xander Miller

  A proposed speed limit on human powered and electric assist bicycles is absurd, especially considering that non-restricted cars kill hundreds on NYCs streets

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:12pm

• Rosemarie SantiEsteban

  People on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, that mame bikers and pedestrians, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. I was tapped by a car twice and my little neighbor Zion had his bike totaled, but luckily was thrown clear. It’s so very illogical to require a bike to travel at 15 mph, with criminal penalties at 16 mph, while, in the very same lane, a **FEW TON** SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will ** NOT** make us safer. It will discourage biking. We need biking to cut our pollution and get much needed exercise and recreation.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:12pm

• Hazel Twelker

  I agree that the disparity in rules of the road re speeding cars & bikes doesn’t make sense. I think we need meetings with interested parties to carefully address rules of the road and how they impact users of our streets.

  Car drivers need to be made aware that use of the roads is a privilege, not a right.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:17pm

• Enrique Edward Facundo

  I am a native New Yorker and like many have said, we need to regulate and enforce the rules on vehicles that maim and kill hundreds of innocent New Yorkers every year. They blow red lights, cut off pedestrians, make illegal turns, go dangerously over the speed limit, and do so with little enforcement by the police. Cars, that may I remind y’all are already registered and insured, also pollute, cause congestion, and cause societal ills by physically separating us from our fellow humans.

  I am a pedestrian first, a driver who loves his car for trips outside the city, and an avid cyclist in NYC who’s ebike has replaced their car for 99% of my trips in the city. I’ve logged nearly 30k miles since I purchased the bike in 2018. Thosre are miles I didnt use my car for. As someone who has been the victim of road violence, I sympathize with anyone that has had an accident or negative interaction with an emobility vehicle but had they had a similar interaction with a car, would they even be here to tell their story? And I wholeheartedly support the enforcement of sensible laws and regulations for all vehicles in NYC. What I cannot support is the selection of one segment of the population for arbitrary legal enforcement.

  We need the police to enforce the rules that already exist on those cars that kill and maim far more people every year than bicycles. If we want to be fair, I could support a 20mph speed limit for all vehicles. I support the day lighting law. A lot of proponents of this measure talk about the weight and speed of ebikes. I support making cars, the heaviest and fastest vehicles on the road go slower. I support Sammy’s law being implemented FOR ALL VEHICLES in NYC, because cycling is not a crime!

  In conclusion, it seems hypocritical for Adams to say he’s not able to implement Sammy’s law for cars city wide but he can make it 15mph for ebikes arbitrarily? Something doesn’t pass the smell test. For this and many other reasons already mentioned, I oppose this 15mph rule change that does nothing to improve safety, discriminates against a whole class of vulnerable transportation users, and is being done only for political purposes to satiate a corrupt mayor’s supporters.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:23pm

• Brian Fenwick

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:23pm

• Patrick Smith

  I am against this proposed change. I bike to work everyday, rain or shine. Most of my time is in a bike lane, but I sometimes need to leave the bike lane when the lane is blocked (for instance when I am going north on 1st Avenue). It’s important to me to be able to SOMEWHAT keep pace with the car traffic when I leave the bike lane.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:27pm

• D. Shapiro

  This rule applies a disproportionate penalty on riders of e-bikes, e-scooters and pedal-assist bicycles. Cars and trucks are far more dangerous and are not subject to the same penalty. It appears to be a rule driven by a prejudice against riders of bicycles, not on facts or data. I strongly oppose this proposed rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:29pm

• Marjorie Wilner

  This legislation is a great starting point, but it is inadequate without requirements for license plates on the bikes, rider registration and insurance for commercial users. Deliveristas often wear face masks so that they cannot be identified while they are breaking traffic rules. Uber Eats, Doordash, Grubhub, etc., need to have some skin in the game as well, since their business model incentivizes and profits from the bad behavior while leaving the public with the costs.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:30pm

• Sarah Nikolic

  I write to oppose the imposition of speed limits on e-bikes that are stricter than those imposed on vehicles, cars and trucks, which all have much more capacity to cause injury and death.

  Opposition to bikes of all kinds is rooted in the biases of a car culture that priotizes parking and clings to the past. Criminalizing e-bike riders will also disproportionately affect immigrants and people of color, putting both at higher risk from immigration and criminal legal authorities.

  We must do everything in our power to move away from cars and toward a green future, which includes bikes of all kinds. I urge you against the adoption of these regulations.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:30pm

• Nora McCauley

  95% of all accidents and injuries on the roadway are from cars and trucks, which continue to grow in size and weight. In a large truck or SUV, drivers can’t see anything 5′ or below, and their blind spots are commensurately large.

  Limiting the speed of e-bikes to 15mph or below seems arbitrary and irrelevant.

  People riding e-bikes with their kids are likely going below 15mph anyway, and people delivering food for apps need to be able to go faster in order to earn money and keep their jobs.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:34pm

• Henry Shilling

  • I’m a New York City resident, walker, runner, human powered bike rider and supporter of the proposed added speed restrictions applicable to people operating bicycles with electric assist, electronic scooters or pedal assisted commercial bicycles (“electric bikes.”). In fact, I favor extending the limits to all bicycle forms, introducing and adopting additional regulations as noted below as well as the introduction of appropriate penalties for violating these.
  • While data sets per NYC DOT (limited at this point as to time series) show that bike-pedestrian injuries still represent a small share of all crashes involving a bike, motor vehicle or other micromobility devices, what these numbers don’t capture are non-reported incidents and the sense of vulnerability, ranging rom discomfort to sheer panic, that pedestrians in particular feel when bicycle riders, both electronic and manual, speed along streets and sidewalks, moving in all directions, and across intersections without slowing down or stopping. This is also the case when bike riders come off bike paths and cross intersections, still moving at high speeds. Especially worrying are the same riders who seem to be paying more attention to their iPhones than to pedestrians.
  • I favor the establishment of a speed limit for all types of bicycles in NYC, electronic as well as manual.
  • I favor placing limits on the use of hand held devices while riding.
  • Moreover, bicycle riders should be subject to all other relevant mobility rules and regulations, including adherence to traffic lights, the requirement that cyclists ride in the direction of traffic and disallowing bike riding on sidewalks.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:35pm

• Michael Verrilli

  I’m writing the council in opposition to the Ebike Speed Limit Bill because ebikes have greatly improved my family’s life in New York City, and adding new rules around ebikes will make it harder to use them in the city without meaningfully improving safety.

  Every day in this city I worry about my children being hit by car. Hundreds of people are killed each year by cars. Each day I witness dozens of drivers break the law on the BQE on ramps near my house. They do with impunity because they know that enforcement is minimal and the punishments small.

  I have never once feared that my children would be hurt by a cyclists. So why is the priority to create new speed limits for smaller slower vehicles instead of focusing on the larger faster ones?

  I have witnessed anti-social behavior by cyclists (both electric and non-electric) and wish the individuals did not operate as such. However setting a speed limit for ebikes that is in conflict with the laws elsewhere in New York State will do little to curb this behavior, and have no effect on my sense of safety in the street.

  What it will do is create fear, uncertainty and doubt about investing in ebikes and micromobility devices in this city. Ebikes and other micromobility devices are a crucial form of transportation for families in NYC who otherwise face difficult choices when transporting small children (long public transit journeys, taxis without car seats, difficult walks). Making it harder to use ebikes in the city will make even more families retreat to the suburbs.

  Please focus the city’s efforts on other safety areas instead of creating more barriers of entry to micromobility transportation that is so vital for so many city residents.

  Thank you.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:35pm

• Saha Alam

  Hi I am a delivery worker in NYC .
  15 miles a hour is not perfect. And it’s affecte our delivery time. And some delivery companies don’t pay perfectly.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:35pm

• Belal hossain

  I do not support this rule change to 15 mph,

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:38pm

• Frances

  Bikes shouldn’t be banned. The bikes aren’t causing problems. People in speeding automobiles are. I hope you change your mind. Thanks.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:39pm

• Paola

  Necesitamos empleos dignos y tratos justos

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:39pm

• Noah Finn

  I oppose this change. It makes no sense that bikes should be restricted to lower speeds than the much more dangerous vehicles including giant SUVs and trucks. If you want to lower the speed limit then it should apply across the board to all vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:41pm

• Brian Henderson

  As a Brooklyn resident who walks, bikes, uses the subway and drives I oppose this proposed rule change which will make life more difficult for those navigating the city by bicycle while only making the streets marginally safer for all New Yorkers.
  Last year Streetsblog.org looked into the causes of crashes for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 and found e-bikes were responsible for approximately 5.5% of injuries to pedestrians caused by vehicle crashes. The overwhelming majority of injuries to pedestrians (~94%) are caused by cars, SUVs, buses/vans and motorcycles.
  The main cause of danger to pedestrians is from these increasingly larger and heavier cars, SUVs, buses and vans, who are permitted to go 25mph in most of the city and which have the capability of going much faster with very little enforcement of the speed limit.

  If pedestrian safety is the objective, the logical remedy is to lower the speed limit on the largest, heaviest and most dangerous vehicles, to daylight all intersections and re-configure the streets that were originally created to provide the fastest path for cars to provide ample space for public transportation, bicycles and pedestrians.

  This rule amendment unnecessarily targets those who are objectively doing the least harm to the city and ignores the drivers of cars and other large vehicles who are causing the majority of harm to pedestrians.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:42pm

• Reina isabel nerio rodrigez

  Necesitamos ser escuchados un trabajo digno estamos en desacuerdo con la ley de 15 millas

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:43pm

• Allen Needle

  Re: Strong Opposition to Proposed E-Bike Speed Limit Rule (DOT-90)

  Dear Commissioner Rodriguez,
  On behalf of Giant Group, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, Giant Bicycle, Inc., the US distributor of Giant, Liv, Momentum bicycles and E-bikes to over 1000 independent retailers across the US, and in NYC, and a proud advocate for safe and sustainable transportation, we write to express our strong opposition to the proposed amendment to Sections 4-01 and 4-06 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New York, which would impose a blanket 15 mph speed limit on electric bicycles and other micromobility devices.

  This proposal is not just deeply flawed—it is a damaging step backward for New York City’s efforts to promote micromobility, reduce emissions, improve traffic congestion, and support transportation equity. It would impose confusion, economic harm, and chaos across the micromobility ecosystem in New York City, while ultimately making the streets less safe, not more.

  A Terrible Policy That Undermines Progress
  New York City should be a national and global leader in adopting smart micromobility solutions—not a cautionary tale of overregulation and missed opportunity. This rule would undercut the enormous progress the city has made in growing sustainable transportation options and limit its ability to adapt and thrive in a low-carbon future.
  Rather than targeting the real sources of traffic danger—cars, trucks, and unregulated mopeds—this rule scapegoats the very riders and businesses who are contributing to a cleaner, more efficient, and more accessible urban transportation system.

  The Rule Will Hurt Giant and the Broader Micromobility Industry
  For Giant and our retail partners operating in New York City and across the country, this rule introduces major risks:
  • Consumer Confusion: By contradicting existing state classifications and federal standards, this rule will leave consumers unsure of what products are legal to buy or ride. That confusion erodes trust in the entire category of e-bikes.
  • Damage to Retail and Dealer Networks: Class 1, 2, and 3 e-bikes are already speed-limited by design to comply with federal and state law (20–28 mph). Forcing an artificial cap of 15 mph would devalue inventory, increase costs, and likely drive some retailers out of the city altogether.
  • Inconsistent and Unenforceable Regulation: No other major U.S. city has imposed a rule like this. It creates a regulatory patchwork, invites legal challenge, and lacks any meaningful enforcement mechanism.
  • Decreased Ridership and Mode Shift: E-bikes are essential to helping people leave their cars behind. Slowing them down strips away the core value that makes them an attractive alternative. Slower bikes also create unsafe conditions in mixed traffic, increasing the risk of crashes—not reducing it.

  Misguided Focus That Misses the Mark
  This rule appears more symbolic than practical. If safety is the concern, focus should be on infrastructure, education, and enforcement of existing laws—not arbitrarily reducing the speed of legitimate, legal bikes that already comply with federal and state standards. The real safety threat lies with unregistered mopeds and illegal e-motos—not e-bikes sold by legitimate retailers and used by everyday New Yorkers, including essential workers.

  A Better Path Forward
  There are far more effective and equitable ways to promote safety and shared streets. These include:
  • Updating the e-bike classification system to match federal and state laws;
  • Implementing targeted geofencing in sensitive areas rather than a citywide speed cap;
  • Lowering all vehicle speeds citywide to 20 mph under Sammy’s Law;
  • Expanding protected bike lane networks;
  • Enforcing traffic laws on all road users—especially reckless drivers;
  • Working with the industry to promote safe use, training, and public education.

  Conclusion
  The proposed 15 mph speed cap is a reactionary policy that threatens to derail New York City’s momentum toward clean, efficient, and inclusive mobility. It will harm businesses like Giant and our retail partners, alienate consumers, and undermine the city’s broader goals around transportation safety, climate, and equity.

  We urge NYC DOT to withdraw this proposal immediately and instead work collaboratively with industry leaders like Giant, organizations like PeopleForBikes, local advocates, and delivery worker representatives to build a policy framework that enhances safety without compromising innovation, progress, and economic vitality.
  Sincerely,
  Chris Lai – Co-General Manager
  Angelo Mascelli – Co-General Manager
  John Munhall – Director of Product
  Allen Needle – HR and Risk Manager

  Giant Bicycle, USA

  Comment attachment
  Letter-NYC-2.pdf

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:44pm

• Simon Abrams

  This rule, with respect, is ill-considered, to put it charitably. It seems patently unfair that cars that violate speed limit rules can be simply issued a ticket, while e-bikes would end up being sent to criminal court. The 15mph rule seems arbitrary and punitive as well – I can ride over 18mph on my road bike. Are non-e-bikes next?

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:44pm

• Zakariya sawadogo

  We delivery workers need more protection. Stop account deactivation without no reason. Don’t abuse and stop stealing ours tips.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:45pm

• Samsul alam

  I am not satisfied the rules 15

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:47pm

• sahab uddin

  I am not satisfying at this rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:48pm

• Md Tarek Aziz

  I just drive and they are of my account without any violation plz help me

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:49pm

• Somaila Badini

  Delivery workers arent’t protected. We need more consideration… Don’t abuse on ours account deactivation and stop stealing ours tips. We Don’t want to ride as donkey

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:49pm

• Nicole Graziella Cartagna

  Safe streets for everyone in NYC is a sentiment and mission I share with many others concerned about the increased use of e-bikes and other forms of micro mobility around the city. I’m a single mom, freelancer, and long time cyclist. I grew up in Brooklyn and currently live in South Slope.

  Getting an e-bike in 2022 transformed my life, reduced stress and improved my quality of living. I’m able to rely less on my car for shopping because I can strap bags of groceries and other items to the back of my e-bike. I’m not circling around looking for parking. I see parents riding with one or two kids on their e-bikes, being able to efficiently bring them to school and activities. We’re able to actual keep ourselves and this city moving, instead of being stuck in car traffic, or wasting time and gas circling around looking for parking, or waiting for public transit that is often delayed.

  Micro mobility makes NYC more affordable since e-bikes are one of the cheapest forms of transportation as well as environmentally friendly, reducing our reliance on cars.

  Criminal repercussions for e-bikes going the same speed as significantly larger and heavier cars, SUVs, and trucks is incredibly unfair. I see more and more cybertrucks on our streets as well. Those vehicles are like tanks!

  Making traffic offenses criminal ones for cyclists funnels youth and disenfranchised people into the criminal justice system. This is especially dangerous for e-bike delivery drivers, many of whom are immigrants using these vehicles as their sole form of income. Young people at 16 are able to use e-bikes but too young to drive, gives them increased freedom and mobility.

  NYC is fueled by the delivery economy and ecosystem, having whatever you want brought to you whenever and wherever you want is not only integral to our economy but part of our culture. Interestingly enough, it is many of these same people, who live on the Upper West and East sides and are considerable consumers of delivery services, are also some of the most vocal critics of e-bikes and riders. People expect almost instant arrival, and companies push that expectation, but don’t connect speeding and riding on sidewalks and against traffic as the way this is accomplished.

  The NYC DOT should increase their LOOK FOR CYCLISTS and BIKES campaigns to get New Yorkers used to looking out for bikes. When cars were first introduced to NYC streets over a 100 years ago there were many of the same complaints. People were used to looking out for horses and were getting hit by cars, there wasn’t any infrastructure for these new vehicles and people complained. Now we have a light system and roadways. We need to adapt NYC streets to these new electric vehicles. We need more bicycle boulevards where the whole street is dedicated to various forms of bicycles and micro mobility. Increased daylighting at corners, better sidewalks with barriers to prevent bikers from getting on the sidewalk at all.

  We need to have battery buy back and exchange programs, where people can exchange old batteries for UL listed ones to reduce the risk of fire when charging. Delivery companies should be sponsoring charging stations to reduce fires in people’s homes from having to charge multiple batteries for a day’s work.

  PLEASE don’t make a structural issue into a game of whack-a-mole, where you try to go after each bad apple, instead of addressing what is fostering this recklessness in the first place, unrealistic corporate and consumer expectation of delivery services, and poor infrastructure to support cycling as a viable form of transportation. Cycling is the way forward!
  Thank you!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:49pm

• Souleymane Bonkoungou

  It is important to guarantee a livable income, protecting their rights to delivers as others workers. We need to be treated with justice, respect and dignity here in America.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:50pm

• Travis Lee

  I object to this proposed rule. It has made riding less safe for pedestrians, riders, and drivers alike in the last few weeks. More investment should be put into building out infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians, and public transportation.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:51pm

• MDshahidulla

  i just doing my work and they are stop my account without any violation

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:51pm

• Adolfo Campa

  I am all for restricting speed of heavy vehicles in the crowded city. Thank you for bringing up this important concern. Not only bicycles, but *any vehicle* heavier than 20 lbs should be limited to 16 mph or less, and those caught over should be not merely fined, but charged with a criminal offense as this rule proposes.

  However, if you limit it to relatively light vehicles only, and continue to only levy civil penalties on those that drive multi-ton vehicles dangerously through red lights and make quick turns into pedestrian crossings, than you are just hypocritical and hat elivable cities. The livable cities will also hate you and kick you out of office.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:53pm

• MdTarek Aziz

  I just doing my work and they are stop my account without any violation

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:53pm

• Alan Resnick

  Stop excessive speed of CARS; and cars disregarding REDLIGHTS and many other infractions. Get the police to ticket the DANGEROUS OFFENDERS

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:53pm

• Abdoul

  Je ne pense pas que limiter la vitesse serait une bonne idée pour les livreurs.Deja nous travaillons sous pression et malgré tout il y’a des retards dût à divers raisons telles que les amboutaillages ,et le fait que les restaurants négligent les livreurs et ne les priorisent pas.Avec tous ça si la vitesse doit être limitée,cela pourrait impacté négativement le travail

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:54pm

• James Lowenthal

  Speeding bikes are not the main problem in NYC. Yes, cyclists, especially those riding heavy e-bikes, should use extra caution, and should respect pedestrians and all other road users. But let’s face facts: the main threats to life and limb on NYC’s streets are speeding motor vehicles, not speeding e-bikes. Take all the fast e-bikes out of NYC, and we wouldn’t see a difference in overall traffic crash rates. But take the speeding cars out, and we’ll ALL see a dramatic improvement in safety and quality of life.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:55pm

• michael d brown

  That will not work everywhere. It depends on the locations. It will cause more accidents instead of decreasing them.
  These scooters are driven in the streets with ongoing traffic, if the speed is not sufficient there will be accidents.
  In order to proceed with that proposal, you have to make sure that there are bike lanes in the area as well as how busy is that area will be.
  It will be complicated to get that to coincide with local traffic.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 2:56pm

• Zida parfait jules

  On je pa content de la manière dont Grubhub nous traite

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:03pm

• Natasha

  To the New York City Department of Transportation,

  I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed rule that would set a maximum speed of 15 miles per hour for all classes of electric bicycles and electric scooters. While I share the goal of making New York City’s streets safer for everyone, this proposal is a counterproductive measure that will ultimately endanger cyclists, fail to address the root causes of traffic violence, and disproportionately harm the livelihoods of delivery workers.

  The core flaw in this proposal is the flawed premise that lower e-bike speeds will automatically lead to greater safety. As former DOT officials and transportation experts have pointed out, forcing cyclists to travel at speeds significantly slower than the flow of car traffic will increase the frequency of dangerous interactions and overtaking maneuvers by multi-ton vehicles. On many of our streets, the de facto speed of traffic is well above the proposed 15 mph limit for e-bikes. Requiring cyclists to maintain this slower speed will make them “sitting ducks” in traffic, increasing the risk of serious injury and death. The previous 20-25 mph speed limits for different classes of e-bikes allowed riders to better keep pace with traffic, a crucial element of safety in a city with an incomplete and often inadequate network of protected bike lanes.

  Furthermore, this rule appears to be a solution in search of a problem. The vast majority of traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries in our city are caused by cars and trucks, not e-bikes. To focus on the mode of transportation that is part of the solution to our traffic and environmental problems, while largely giving a pass to the primary source of the danger, is a profound misallocation of resources and attention. If the city is serious about its Vision Zero goals, it should be focused on measures that are proven to work, such as building out the network of protected bike lanes, enforcing the speed limit on cars, and implementing traffic-calming measures.

  Finally, this rule will have a significant and negative impact on the thousands of New Yorkers, many of whom are immigrants, who rely on e-bikes for their livelihood as delivery workers. A lower speed limit will mean longer delivery times, reduced earnings, and increased pressure to make up for lost time. This rule, in effect, punishes the very workers who have become an essential part of our city’s economy, without addressing the practices of the app-based companies that often incentivize speed.

  Instead of this misguided and dangerous rule, I urge the Department of Transportation to focus on the following:

  –Accelerate the construction of a city-wide network of protected bike lanes. This is the single most effective way to ensure the safety of all road users.

  –Focus enforcement on the most dangerous behaviors, primarily speeding by car and truck drivers.

  –Work with the City Council to pass legislation that will provide real protections for delivery workers.

  This proposed rule is a step backward for New York City. It will make our streets more dangerous, not less. I urge you to withdraw this proposal and to instead focus on proven solutions that will create a safer and more equitable transportation system for all New Yorkers.

  Sincerely,

  Natasha
  Queens, NY

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:04pm

• Luis Mateo

  This is reactionary performative theatrics, that doesn’t help anybody. We need honest education of commuter etiquette for bicyclists, pedestrians and drivers alike, not headline grabbing (and money scheming ) ill conceived laws.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:06pm

• Emily Chan

  The proposed rule would be detrimental to accessibility in NYC, and is unfairly bias towards car traffic. The advent of assisted bicycles has been a positive development for working class citizens to enable deliveries to all NYers, provide a more cost effective/space efficient mode of transportation without further clogging our streets, and is a more environmentally sustainable alternative to cars. With any technological progress, citizens will need to adjust (i.e. make sure to look out for bike lanes before crossing,etc). The vast majority of e-bikers operate safely and do so as a form of commuting or working; they are not recklessly joy riding through the streets. If safety is at the heart of policy making, creating protected bike lanes will further enhance safety. This policy will hinder people’s livelihoods while not addressing the most unsafe vehicle on the streets, which is cars.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:07pm

• Md Mazharul islam

  I am doing work with grubhab and they are just stop my account without any violation please help me

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:08pm

• Felipe Castillo

  Please make e-biking safer by constructing dedicated, protected bike lanes. A narrow, protected bike lane with pinch-points at intersections can discourage speeding. Limiting the speed via individual enforcement carries unintended consequences such having more undocumented immigrants entering the criminal justice system.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:12pm

• Garrett Bodley

  The 15 MPH speed limit for e-bikes is absurd. The city refuses to take action on most speeding, running red lights, obstructing bike lanes, and numerous other dangerous behaviors. Cars are BY FAR the greatest cause of death and injury to pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers. Yet, for some reason, the city has decided to place greater scrutiny on cyclists who account for a slim fraction of accidents annually.

  This law is entirely unenforceable, which encourages selective enforcement by the NYPD. This will inevitably allow for racist harassment of immigrant delivery workers. These hard-working, tax-paying New Yorkers are the lifeblood of our city. They endure hazardous working conditions and grueling hours on the streets to ensure the city’s residents receive their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This cap will increase the instances that delivery workers and immigrants come in contact with law enforcement, in a time when they are at extreme risk for unlawful detention by ICE. New York is a city built by immigrants – you cannot claim to love this city while your administration continues to introduce policies that result in the over-policing of our most vulnerable.

  Also, this policy makes the streets less safe! Since the 15 MPH speed limit has gone into effect, I have been stuck behind a group of e-bike riders who are forced to travel slower than traffic. This creates congestion, slows car traffic, increases road rage, and puts pedestrians, cyclists, and car drivers all at greater risk of accidents.

  This decision has all the marks of bad governance. It makes problems worse, is impossible to implement, and creates a bunch of nonsense busywork for city workers. Rescind this speed limit and invest in improving our transit infrastructure instead (something the current administration has delayed time and time again)

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:12pm

• Patrick Cranston

  Riding a bike is not a criminal activity, there is no way that bicyclists should get sent to criminal court while drivers with worse infractions and that can cause more significant harm just receive a traffic citation.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:20pm

• Nora Wolf

  I’m opposed to criminalizing bikers and e-bikers. We decided we wanted everything delivered, and these are the folks delivering our food, they are not criminals, they are working a very hard and dangerous job. Don’t criminalize them. Make street infrastructure improvements so we can get everything delivered, they can stay safe riding on their own piece of road away from pedestrians.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:30pm

• Anonymous

  I use a pedal ebike every day. The vast majority of pedal e-bike riders (citibikes) are incredibly safe. Taking action against pedal e-bikes instead of trigger e-bikes makes no sense! It is less safe for the riders who have significantly less pick up if they get caught by an aggressive driver.

  Trigger e-bikes will continue to rip through the streets while pedal ebikers are inconvenienced.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:37pm

• David E Johnson

  I am a 70 year-old lifetime Manhattan resident and I ride a bike daily. I also use an e-bike. Please do not make my daily commute a criminal offense. It is outrageous that 4-ton vehicles are allowed to travel at higher speeds than e-bikes. Cars kill people.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:39pm

• Brynne O'Rourke

  I’m fully against this proposed rule. The City should focus on cars who speed, run red lights and endanger the health and safety of pedestrians and bikers at much greater rates. Criminalizing bikers is not a solution to the safety on our streets. We need more bike lanes that are protected, well signed and larger to encourage bike traffic that flows better. Mayor Adams should focus on the real problems instead of using e-bikes as a scapegoats for the lack of safety on the streets that his adminstration has created!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:41pm

• Edan Kamara

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:43pm

• Mohammed shakib

  Without any reason without violation grubhub company deactivated my account

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:48pm

• Emily Stutts

  This rule is unfounded and unjust. Bikes don’t usually come with speedometers so there’s no real way for the average bicyclist to measure and monitor their speed. Additionally, bicyclists are not harming pedestrians in the ways that car drivers are, yet traffic enforcement for car drivers is lacking in major ways. This doesn’t make sense at all. E bikes are sustainable and provide a healthy future that works for all in a manner than cars never will.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:50pm

• Virginia Hass

  To whom it may concern:
  I’m a 63 year-old female pedestrian who thinks this criminalization of e-bikes is excessive and unenforceable. In my experience, cars are much more threatening, and dangerous. Please concentrate on enforcing speed limits and red lights for cars, and leave bikes alone.
  Thank you.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:51pm

• Sahadat Hossain

  I got a violation on Friday(05/02/25), but the thing is I didn’t work for last Friday, Thursday. Even I don’t know what’s the reason behind getting violation. Even last Friday,(04/25/25)I got a violation without any reason.I always try to do my best with the deliveries and I didn’t do anything that I got a violation.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:51pm

• Paloma Martinez-Miranda

  “I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  “Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  “To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  “I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:52pm

• Martha Rose

  Do not pass this law and Target bicycles. We are victims of cars and the fact that there are no bike Lanes in most parts of the city.

  There need to be more construction of bike Lanes and more enforcement of violations by cars. And to lower the speed limit for cars to 20 miles an hour. That will protect all of us.

  And to enforce laws that prohibit cars from being in bike Lanes. And prohibit motorcycles from bike Lanes. The city is not doing enough to enforce the current laws in place on cars that run red lights speed and hit bicyclists.

  I have been a bicyclist in New York City since 1970. I am now in my ’70s and I continue to ride. Preferably in bike Lanes. I am a very experienced bicyclist and find it difficult to navigate speeding cars, motorcycles, and bike Lanes that have huge potholes or rough pavement. Pavement. And there are not enough bike Lanes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 3:53pm

• David Sankey

  As a cyclist who rides frequently in all parts of NYC, I strongly oppose a law that would set the speed limit of a micro-mobility device (bike, e-bike, scooter) below the speed limit for cars on the same streets. Cars are much more dangerous than any of the vehicles in this proposed bill. Citibike users have already suffered the consequences and that change must be reversed.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:07pm

• DAT PHAN

  I’ve noticed a stark increase in multi ton cars running red lights in Brooklyn and Manhattan since 2020. Before bringing down the hammer on ebikes that are less than 100 lbs how about first putting effort into cars which weigh many times more and are way more prevalent than ebikes?

  Government policy and enforcement should be bases on data and statistics, not intangible fears.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:09pm

• scott baker

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers. If you really want to reduce the “hurry” factor for deliveristas, add a mileage surcharge for every mile above 1 from the source of the order. This will keep deliveristas from having to ride all over the city, rushing to beat an unrealistic deadline to a far away customer who has other options in retail dense New York City.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:10pm

• Joshua Kneidl

  Under the proposed new rules, a person on a 50 pound e-bike could get sent to criminal court or even be arrested for going 16 mph. Meanwhile, the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV could speed 40 mph through a red light and only receive a traffic ticket. This is obviously absurd and I hope that sensible heads will prevail by scrapping this nonsense.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:12pm

• Dennis Dran

  It is extremely disheartening to see a proud modern city like New York propose a rule like this. This is horse and buggy mentality. It takes the city backwards. New York should be facilitating cycling, of which ebikes are an essential part. New York should be moving toward less pollution, more energy efficiency and less congestion. It takes a multi resource approach to do that, again, ebikes are an essential part and limiting their speed makes them less effective as a practical and reliable means of transportation in the city. Regarding safety in the streets, much more could be accomplished by regulating car traffic. Speeding is rampant in all boroughs. Literally not a day goes by when I don’t see a car go clear and fully through a red light. Often several times a day. It is now common for drivers to cut out of an exit lane, bypass all of the waiting drivers and force their way into head of the line. This happens at virtually every crowded exit. It is dangerous, blocks traffic in the adjacent line while the drivers are cutting in and provokes road rage, leading to further danger on the roads. To choose to regulate the much slower, non polluting, congestion reducing ebikes that help to solve the above problems is a backward approach and stunts the city’s growth.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:12pm

• Annie Delgadillo

  I oppose the 15 mph speed limit on e-bikes.

  This policy change — which applies only to people on e-bikes — is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket.

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:12pm

• Luke

  I argue that lower speed limits can make e-bike riders more vulnerable in traffic, as they may not be able to keep up with the flow of traffic or react quickly enough to avoid accidents. Riders may become “sitting ducks” if they are too slow relative to other vehicles.
  If a speed limit is implemented there will undoubtedly be enforcement challenges:
  E-bikes and e-scooters often lack license plates or other identifiers, making it difficult to enforce speed limits. This can lead to a lack of accountability for riders who exceed the limits, rendering the restrictions ineffective.
  Passing such a low speed limit would also be discouraging to sustainable transportation:
  Speed limits, particularly those perceived as overly restrictive, could discourage people from choosing e-bikes and e-scooters as a mode of transportation, potentially leading to increased reliance on cars and other less sustainable options.
  Thanks to aforementioned enforcement challenges a limited speed would have limited effectiveness:
  Riders can often exceed the legal speed limits by pedaling harder, especially on downhill slopes, making the speed limit less effective in controlling speed. Additionally, there’s also the argument that the speed differential between e-bikes and other vehicles, particularly in mixed-mode traffic (sharrows), can be a greater safety concern than the absolute speed of the e-bike itself.
  Infrastructure limitations:
  Existing infrastructure may not be designed for the speeds at which e-bikes can travel, regardless of whether they are legally limited or not. This can create a mismatch between the vehicle’s capabilities and the environment, potentially leading to conflicts and safety issues. People will ride the speed they feel comfortable, not what the rules or signs say. In areas we actually want people to slow down we need to use actual proven traffic calming technology, not more bureaucratic rules. Yes SOME e-bike users do ride dangerously and they should be stopped. BUT a blanket 15-mile/hour rule is a bad idea that will criminalize everyday commuters. Bikes, scooters, and e-bikes should be subject to the same speed limit as other road users, if it’s not safe for my bike to go down the road at 20mph than why is it acceptable for cars to go 35mph down the same street, a several ton metal box takes much longer to stop than a bike.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:14pm

• Susan Chumsky

  I am against setting speed limits for e-bikes. E-bikes make the city more navigable, with zero pollution, and lessen the need for dangerous, polluting cars. Cars and trucks, ever more oversized, go much faster, and their drivers often have poor visibility of pedestrians, for whom (from my experience) they show far less consideration than bikes do. Cars and truck kill and pollute. They, not e-bikes, are the real urban menace.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:15pm

• Brian Riggio

  The proposed rule is a knee-jerk reaction with no real basis in reality. Cars and drivers cause the vast majority of injury and death on our roads. Nobody should be hit by an e-bike, but the data just does not show that this is happening in significant numbers, especially compared to drivers. Thousands of crashes happen a year caused by drivers, with no reaction from lawmakers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:16pm

• Roxanne Delgado

  DOT has made the Bronx less greener, more dangerous, more unhealthy and poorer. Kids wasting money for these rental escooters instead of walking. and yes escooters are used mostly by underage and replacing WALKING and CYCLING. Escooters dumped everywhere including our waterways. Not to mention the escooters are ridden on SIDEWALKS AND IN our PARKS. it is the WILD WilD WEST HERE. and they used them also to commit crimes. snatching peoples’ phones, purses , jewelry , accessories. and now parks is talking away our parkway to widen the path for more escooters. Less trees and greenspaces. THERE IS NO ENFORCEMENT. NADA,!!!! Both NYC parks and NYC DOT has sold out the people of nyc to specials interest and corporation.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:16pm

• Roxanne Delgado

  DOT has made the Bronx less greener, more dangerous, more unhealthy and poorer. Kids wasting money for these rental escooters instead of walking. and yes escooters are used mostly by underage and replacing WALKING and CYCLING. Escooters dumped everywhere including our waterways. Not to mention the escooters are ridden on SIDEWALKS AND IN our PARKS. It’s the wild, wild West here. And they also used them to commit crimes. snatching people’s phones, purses, jewelry, and accessories. And now Parks is talking about taking away our parkway to widen the path for more e-scooters. Fewer trees and green spaces. THERE IS NO ENFORCEMENT. NADA,!!!! Both NYC parks and NYC DOT have sold out the people of NYC to specials interest and corporations.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:18pm

• Heather

  I almost got hit by an SUV that ran a red light while I was in Queens yesterday. I was in the middle of the cross walk, and I crossed when a few seconds after my light changed. I had to run to get out of the way! If that car had hit me, I would have died. If instead it had been a speeding e-bike, I might have been injured but I would more likely still be alive. Why don’t you go ahead and also make it a criminal offense to run a red light with a car? I am annoyed by e-bikes from time to time, but I fear for my life when crossing the streets in some neighborhoods because the car drivers are reckless! If you care about safety, make penalties for dangerous behavior more severe! Reckless car drivers are dangerous.
  I want to add that a few years ago, my cousin got hit by a driver who turned left on a red light in Queens. That driver didn’t even go to traffic court. My cousin’s ankle was shattered and he had to get expensive reconstructive surgery. He still has problems going up and down stairs. This has had a lasting impact in his quality of life as a New Yorker. He wishes he had a chance for justice with the driver who hit him, but the police did not care. Harsher penalties for car drivers not e-bikes! Show you actually care about our safety and send drivers to jail too. It doesn’t make any sense to have a harsher penalty for a less dangerous vehicle.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:18pm

• Tyler Newcomb

  Car drivers kill about 2 pedestrians each week in NYC and injure approximately 150 people per day. By comparison, bikes injure about 3 people per day, and kill approximately 2 per year.

  Policy that targets the least dangerous mode of transportation, while not addressing the massive systemic dangers of poor infrastructure design, lack of driver accountability, and fundamental differences in the laws of physics (larger vehicles are exponentially more dangerous, even at the same speeds), is shortsighted and dangerous. With the additional context of NYPD policy to issue criminal summons for bike violations, and federal law enforcement using misdemeanors as a pretext for immigration violations, this policy becomes intentionally cruel and overtly violent towards the many hardworking delivery riders in New York City.

  I encourage NYC to not enact this rule change, and to instead focus on mitigating the most hazardous behaviors and conditions on streets – speeding cars, reckless drivers, and poorly designed or maintained infrastructure that encourages dangerous behaviors and introduces unnecessary conflict.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:20pm

• Tori

  This administration could do any number of things to make bikers and pedestrians safer in the city, including towing cars who park in the bike lane or double park blocking traffic, actually enforcing drivers running red lights endangering pedestrians in crosswalks, or providing the cycling infrastructure that has been long promised.
  Penalizing (and summonsing) riders who go over 15mph is not the answer. This is clearly targeting deliveristas, and will not make our streets safer.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:22pm

• Paul de Andrade

  If you actually want to make the streets of NYC safer, add red light cameras to catch the thousands of drivers that injure or almost kill pedestrians and cyclists every day in New York. Passing this legislation on the all cyclists when the vast majority ride safely and lawfully is insulting and a waste of time.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:28pm

• Robert Cannon

  New York must stop waging war on bicyclists and pedestrians, and this decision to impose a speed limit on e-bikes is only one more part of that misguided war. Speeding cars and trucks are the problem, not e-bikes. If the goal is to make New York streets safer, then please target the speeding heavy vehicles, such as cars and trucks, and offer more protection for cyclists and pedestrians, such as protected bike lanes for the former and wider sidewalks for the latter.

  New York has always prioritized cars over bicyclists and pedestrians and as a result, people have been killed and injured over the years by speeding motor vehicles. Only recently have we even begun to see the growth of bike lanes and dedicated bus lanes, but these are not enough. We need physically separate protected bike lanes, wider bike lanes, wider sidewalks for pedestrians, and fewer motor vehicles in the city. New York should be a bicyclist and walker’s paradise. Imposing artificial limitations on bikers, like this e-bike speed limit, is misdirected. Please re-think your priorities. All over the world, big cities have thrived when bicyclists and pedestrians have been prioritized. Pedestrian-only streets are filled with people and thriving with commerce – look at almost any European city for an example. These cities also have physically protected bike lanes where people can bike completely separated from motor vehicles, with no fear of being injured or killed by speeding drivers. You can do better. Please allow New Yorkers to have a better quality of life. Enforce speed limits against heavy motor vehicles like cars and trucks, enforce traffic laws, and provide protection for bikes and pedestrians.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:29pm

• Tony Borelli

  This measure is idiotically counterproductive and an obvious symptom of car derangement in NYC’s government.

  Every new restriction placed on e-bikes, retards their well demonstrated tendency to replace far more dangerous car trips, a huge safety improvement that is now being thrown away.

  It also threatens to destroy the appeal and viability of Citi Bike e-bikes, damaging that hugely valuable program and its safety, health, environmental, equity, and other benefits to the city.

  All this while cars, without this restriction, continue to slaughter people in the streets with sickening regularity.

  This restriction should be summarily and completely reversed, immediately.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:30pm

• Tracy Marotta

  Let’s focus on speeding cars, cars running red lights, etc and bikes doing actual illegal things, besides going 10mph less than a car speed limit

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:31pm

• Anne Griepenburg

  This proposed speed limit should only be done if it includes cars.

  You’re singling out bike users when the real risk from injury and death is from drivers of cars, SUVs, and trucks.

  As written this is unenforceable, and provides no benefits, and will lead to more racial profiling by NYPD

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:34pm

• Dr Christopher Hayward

  I’m writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed rule. Only a completely braindead individual like our corrupt mayor would think that it’s reasonable to impose a 15 mph speed limit on bicycles and scooters while allowing cars, trucks, and buses to drive at much higher speeds and to speed and run red lights with at worst a slap on the wrist as consequences.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  Should you pass this rule, you will only be advancing the Adams and Trump administrations’ war on working poor immigrants. Do the right thing and do not pass the rule.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:35pm

• Nick Ross

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize biking. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which reduces bikes on sidewalks. In addition, it keeps those who are biking safe in general.

  In 2022, my girlfriend, Carling Mott, was hit and killed on the Upper East Side while biking to work. Instead of the city focusing on getting trucks off of small streets, bicyclists protected, and reckless drivers penalized, they are focusing on criminalizing bikers. This is backwards and represents a real lack of understanding of what New Yorkers want.

  At the same time, as a pedestrian, I am in support of making sure that people walking on sidewalks are not at risk. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I am writing to expose my strong opposition to the passage of this rule and do not support this attack on cyclists.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:35pm

• Sebastian Baez

  E-bikes should not have additional speed restrictions. Forcing e-bikes to go significantly slower than the speed of motor vehicles (20-25 mph when drivers are actually following the law, because they frequently speed; also some parts of the city have 30 mph speed limits) means you expose them to more dangerous collisions and circumstances than if they were moving in the same direction at the same speed as other vehicles.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:36pm

• Abe Velez

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for *every* vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  The new rules proposed are particularly egregious in light of the everyday impunity of cars cruising through red lights throughout our city.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:42pm

• Katherine Pendill

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities.
  People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year.
  It is illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:46pm

• Ben Frank

  I oppose this change. Trucks and cars regularly speed at 40mph and above in my neighborhood without getting speeding tickets. Why should e-bikes be singled out, and why should the punishment be harsher? Bikes pose much less risk to others on the street than cars and trucks.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:47pm

• Patrick Conlon

  Let’s limit the car speeds instead. It’s car drivers whose speed and reckless driving causes deaths and severe injuries.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:52pm

• Mark Walker

  Let’s keep e bikes off side walks and confine e bikes to regular traffic lanes, not bicycle lanes. Helmets should be mandatory on ebikes in traffic, they should pass inspection, and not be modified to speed at more than 25mph.

  School zone speeds should only be valid during school hours, not 24 hrs a day.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:53pm

• Logan Goff

  Dear Commissioner Rodriguez,
  On behalf of Pivot Cycles, a member of New York City’s micromobility industry, I write in strong opposition to the proposed rule amending Sections 4-01 and 4-06 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New York to impose a 15 mph speed limit on electric bicycles and other micromobility devices.
  This rule, if adopted, would set a damaging precedent for cities across the country. It is legally questionable, practically unenforceable, and counterproductive to the city’s goals of sustainable, safe, and equitable transportation. Additionally, it directly harms NYC’s e-bike industry, which provides micromobility solutions to thousands of residents and visitors and contributes significant economic impact, traffic congestion relief, and emissions reductions.
  1. Direct Harms to NYC’s E-Bike Industry
  For businesses like ours and the broader bike industry in New York, this rule threatens economic growth and market stability in multiple ways:
  ● Consumer Confusion: Arbitrary speed caps create uncertainty for customers unsure whether common, city-compliant e-bikes are legal to purchase or operate in NYC. This delays or deters sales and undermines trust in the product category.
  ● Reduced Ridership and Demand: E-bikes are valued for their ability to move people efficiently through dense urban environments. A 15-mph cap erodes that core benefit, especially for commuters, delivery riders, and older or less-fit users, and risks pushing people back into cars or onto faster and more dangerous illegal e-motos, which in many cases are actually the problem product, rather than e-bikes.
  ● Regulatory Patchwork: This rule would make New York City the only major U.S. jurisdiction to impose a blanket e-bike speed limit on city streets that contradicts state law. In addition to the lack of consistency between City and State e-bike classifications, this creates more compliance headaches for manufacturers, retailers, and operators trying to follow a unified standard.
  ● Devaluation of Inventory and Fleet Investments: Retailers and fleet operators have invested in Class 1, 2, and 3 e-bikes designed to comply with limits of 20–25 mph in New York City. This rule devalues those investments and may require costly modifications, reprogramming, or replacement of otherwise legal devices. We also may lose retailers in the City altogether.
  ● Stigma and Precedent: Treating e-bikes as a regulatory problem rather than a transportation solution undermines public perception and discourages future ridership. Worse, it sets a precedent for further restrictive micromobility rules that could damage the long-term viability of this clean, efficient sector.
  2. No Legal Basis, No Enforcement Strategy
  The rule lacks legal grounding. Under New York State law (VTL §1642(26), cities cannot enact a blanket speed limit below 20 mph without doing so via local law, which is a step this proposal does not take. Moreover, no penalties are outlined, and with no registration system or plate requirement for most e-bikes, the rule is unenforceable on its face.
  3. Misplaced Focus on Low-Risk Users
  Data shows that electric bikes contribute a tiny fraction of traffic injuries compared to cars, trucks, and mopeds. Yet this rule singles out e-bike riders, many of whom are essential workers and low-emission commuters, while leaving the most dangerous road users virtually unchecked. Targeting micromobility while failing to rein in reckless driving and speeding from larger vehicles feels like political theater, not safety policy.
  4. Speed Differential Creates New Safety Hazards
  Slowing e-bikes down to 15 mph, slower than many casual cyclists or pedal-powered delivery riders, exacerbates speed differentials in mixed traffic, making overtaking and lane-sharing more dangerous. Riders may be forced onto sidewalks or into conflict zones, increasing crash risk rather than reducing it.
  6. Poor Rule Drafting Undermines Credibility
  The draft rule itself contains multiple errors and misstatements—including confusion over the City’s e-bike class system and inaccurate references to state law. Worse, it assumes electric-assist technology is inherently more dangerous, even though most permitted e-bikes are already speed-limited to 20 or 25 mph by design.
  5. Ignores Better Policy Alternatives
  The rule also fails to explore better, proven options:
  ● Updating NYC’s e-bike classification system to reflect federal standards and create consistency between city and state laws.
  ● Lowering the citywide vehicle speed limit to 20 mph via Sammy’s Law, rather than singling out e-bikes;
  ● Investing in protected bike lanes and safe micromobility infrastructure;
  ● Geofencing speed limits only in sensitive areas, like bridges or plazas;
  ● Enforcing existing traffic laws on all road users, especially cars and mopeds;
  ● Incentivizing safe riding behavior, including pay model reforms for delivery platforms.
  Conclusion
  This rule contradicts the City’s own goals around mode shift, traffic safety, and emissions reduction.
  New York City should be leading the way on safe, modern, climate-forward transportation rather than punishing riders and businesses who are delivering exactly that.
  We urge NYC DOT to withdraw this proposal and instead collaborate with stakeholders like PeopleForBikes, local advocates, delivery workers, and the micromobility industry on data-driven, equitable solutions that improve safety while supporting continued growth in sustainable transportation.
  Thank you for your consideration. We remain committed to building a more bike-friendly, people-centered New York City.
  Sincerely,
  Logan Goff

  Comment attachment
  Pivot-Cycles_Letter-on-DOT-90-Rule_7.14.2025.pdf

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:54pm

• Erik Gonzalez

  Street Safety is a top concern of mine and while there have been instances reported in the news about incidents involving cyclists and pedestrians, the amount of incidents involving pedestrians, cyclists, and alternative mode of transportation users with automobiles far outnumber the former numbers. The vast majority of new yorkers are not drivers therefore regulations that ensure the safety of our streets needs to begin with how automobile incidents are handled. Cycling infrastructure throughout the city is still relatively new, only having seen significant growth and implementation within the last 15 years. The growth and popularity of pedestrian islands and cycle paths only means that regular new yorkers are able to reclaim the streets. Allowing different types of road users clear indication of travel is a great way to enhance visibility. However, not all streets are the same and these same road users must contend with the variety of conditions they encounter. Street calming measures begin with addressing the way vehicles block visibility and encourage speeding through certain corridors. Additionally, the e-bike speed limit regulations being proposed disproportionately affect minorities and delivery workers that already have limited mobility options for work or normal commuting. I asked that the measures being proposed here are reconsidered and that priority is given to everyday new yorkers that continue to strive to make NYC the livable walkable breathable city that it is and can continue to improve.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:56pm

• Brandon Chamberlin for the Law Office of Adam D. White

  Please see attached comment opposing the proposed rule because it would violate VTL §1242(3)(a), which reserves the exclusive power to set e-bike speed limits to the NYC City Council, not DOT. Accordingly, the proposed rule also exceeds DOT’s rulemaking authority under Section 2903(a)
  of the NYC City Charter. Should DOT attempt to implement the rule, this office is prepared to bring an Article 78 proceeding to strike it down.

  Comment attachment
  Law-Office-of-Adam-White-Comment-in-Opposition.pdf

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:57pm

• Justin W

  The 15 mile rule imposed on Citibike e-bikes is a daylight example of the current administration putting lobbyists and wealthier motorists first while refusing to criminalize the most dangerous drivers on the road. If the administration was serious about road safety, it would follow through on bus lane promises, build safer infrastructure for vulnerable cyclists, and not politicize Sammy’s law.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 4:59pm

• Bike Hoboken

  Bike Hoboken firmly opposes the proposed rule capping low-speed electric bicycles at 15 mph. Due to the shared Citi Bike system across New York City, Jersey City, and Hoboken, this misguided rule would have unintended consequences for our community.

  Data show that cyclists in Hoboken are responsible for very few traffic-related injuries. In contrast, drivers of motor vehicles are involved in nearly every traffic-related injury in our city, resulting in hundreds of injuries each year. It is misguided to impose a strict speed limit on cyclists, while allowing motor vehicles to legally travel at higher speeds in the same lanes without penalty.

  New York City must recognize the broader impact this rule would have on neighboring communities. It will discourage cycling in Hoboken — a change that would ultimately make our streets less safe for everyone.

  If New York City is serious about improving transportation safety, it should invest in infrastructure that protects cyclists and pedestrians from motor vehicles. The city should follow Hoboken’s example by reducing motor vehicle speed limits to 20 mph, daylighting intersections, and strengthening municipal investments in public transit– not criminalizing cyclists.

  Sincerely,

  Andrew Wilson
  Executive Director
  Bike Hoboken

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:00pm

• Kate Brockwehl

  This rule change is terrible policy — ignoring motor vehicles which are involved in the overwhelming majority of crashes that cause serious injuries and fatalities to score political points with voters, many of whom (eg Upper East Side, Manhattan) order many deliveries and don’t consider the delivery workers human, and obscure the Mayor’s failure to take any responsible, appropriate, or intelligent action on regulating apps and delivery companies, who have donated heavily to his campaigns.

  I have co-chaired Families for Safe Streets’s Policy and Advocacy committee for the past two years — a volunteer role I devote so much time to because I know what it’s like to be hit by a car through no fault of your own and seriously injured, and I support data-driven solutions to reduce traffic violence so that others don’t have to suffer as I and fellow FSS members have.

  I was hit by a car on the afternoon of December 31, 2017, while I was in the crosswalk and had the walk light, by a driver who had moved upstate and was not used to the many distractions of big city driving anymore. I was running errands for family in lower Manhattan. The driver had stopped at the top of Elizabeth as they were supposed to before turning left into me — I learned later how lucky I was that the vehicle’s speed was low when it hit me. Nevertheless, the force of the car hitting my left leg just below my knee tore my leg apart, causing a closed degloving injury aka a Morel-Lavallée lesion and tearing my lateral meniscus as my leg attempted to compensate for the force exerted on my inner shin. I discovered later that while the vehicle that hit me was a sedan — an SUV more likely would have caused abdominal and/or head injuries that more likely would have been fatal — it happened to be one of the heaviest sedans on the market, a BMW 5 series. In other words, I was hit by some 4000 pounds of metal, plastic, and rubber, and it sheared the layers inside my leg apart.

  This is how the overwhelming majority of NYC serious injuries are caused by reckless drivers — the force of a car even a sedan, SUV, bus, or truck hitting a human body breaks bones, crushes limbs, and tears flesh — and often kills people. An e-bike and its driver together weigh, what, 250 pounds on average? If they hit someone, they will exert sixteen times less force on that person’s skeleton and vital organs than the car that drove into me.

  Yes, we all as pedestrians see reckless e-bike riding daily, and it’s scary. It’s easier for people to imagine being hit by one than by a motor vehicle — not because its more likely or more dangerous but because if the average New Yorker realized the scale of traffic violence in this city and country, we’d have mass agoraphobia. The heavier the vehicle, the greater the force — it’s basic physics. And it determines who lives and dies and what lifelong injuries traffic violence survivors like me end up with. That is where your attention should be, reducing traffic violence and serious injuries and fatalities in NYC. Instead you are pulling this racist, classist, nativist stupidity. It’s disgraceful.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:18pm

• Abram Morris

  We need real transformative change to the way that our streets work, not a penalty, which is ultimately a band aid solution. This rule cannot be passed without a comprehensive redesign of New York City Streets, and regulation of delivery apps.

  A bike lane is unsafe if a child cannot use it on their own. By that definition, there is not a single safe bike lane in the entire City of New York.

  The answer here, is following through with the streets plan, and regulating the delivery app industry, not punishing the vulnerable people who are providing essential services to the city.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:21pm

• Gail Benjamin

  I am all for lowering the speed limits for e-vehicles but I doubt that that is going to stop riders from disobeying the laws any less than they do no. Whether it’s going through a red light or speeding along the streets what’s needed is to change people’s behavior and the only way we can do that is to hold them accountable for breaking the traffic laws. To do this e-vehicles need to be registered and licensed so we identify offenders. An e-vehicle is a mode of transportation and should be treated similar to cars. I strongly support Priscilla’s Law (0606-2025) and hope that you will to..
  Respectfully, Gail Benjamin

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:22pm

• LOIC VIENNE

  Hello,

  I really don’t think this city needs to impose such drastic limitations on e-bikes while there are so many more priorities and investment needed to support bikers in the city.

  Bike injuries (and death) although sad and preventable are so limited compared to car/truck related injuries.

  thank you

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:25pm

• Zach L

  I oppose this proposed rule. No compelling evidence justifies it, and it will make riding an e-bike more dangerous since it will be impossible to keep up with traffic. This will aggregate drivers and cyclists while endangering both.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:29pm

• ROLAND JARQUIO

  Since the pandemic, I commute around this entire city almost exclusively on bicycle. It’s healthier for me and for the environment. So NYC should focus on policies that encourage MORE bikes and FEWER cards on the roads. I find it extraordinarily myopic to propose rules that serve to discourage, curb or criminalize biking. If anything, DOT should be focusing these efforts on CARS, not bikes. Cars kill people. If you were focused on the real underlying issue, you’d be focused on creating the right infrastructure to accommodate all types of vehicles. In the meantime, if you care about safety, focus on motorized vehicles — including motorized mopeds and motorcycles that ride in the bike lanes.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:30pm

• Sylvia Scahill

  I use e-bikes to commute to work everyday. I need the e bike. Without the e-bike it would be double my commute time. I have been riding the e-bikes at the regular speed for years, there is no need to reduce the speed. This will make my life harder and dramatically alter my daily commute. Thank you.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:30pm

• L Calabasas

  Yes, PLEASE lower the speed limit on cycles.
  As a pedestrian the closest calls when it comes to being hit have been from cycles. The only reason I am not hurt was I saw them coming. I worry about the time when I don’t see them coming or I can’t get out of the way fast enough. They do not stop at stop signs, e-bikes ride on sidewalks or go the wrong way in traffic. Cars do not do the above. At this point I think cycles have put enough people in the hospital — I see those who want cycles not to be regulated compare them to cars. Which is a weak argument as these are two different things. Fact is bikes have hurt people. Therefore there needs to be more regulation to prevent people from getting hurt this way. I used to be a cyclist, but I have yet to feel safe riding my bike when I’ve had too many close calls just walking.
  15 mph is a good start, and cyclists should be registered and face penalties when breaking all traffic laws.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:31pm

• Ellie

  I oppose the proposed 15mph e-bike speed limit, which would make electric transport less viable and less safe to ride in traffic. We should be supporting electric transportation alternatives for a cleaner, safer city.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:32pm

• Joshua Berman

  I strongly opposed the 15 mph limit for ebikes. It would be great if the city spent more time and effort keeping bikers safe from cars rather than creating arbitrary laws that target delivery workers.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:36pm

• Amelia Clark

  I want to express my opposition to the proposed 15 mph e-bike speed limit. This rule would make biking less safe. In a city completely overrun by cars, it’s important that citibike / other e-bike riders are able to bike quickly enough to get out of unsafe or dicey situations which are almost always caused by cars. In instances where one is biking and there is no bike infrastructure, it’s vital to be able to keep up with traffic. What NYC needs is comprehensive bike education in public schools and for delivery drivers who preform a vital service for New Yorkers but may not be trained with proper bike etiquette.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:40pm

• Tran Jacinto

  I am strongly opposed to the proposed rule to limit e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. It is illogical and could put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record or entrapment in President Trump’s immigration dragnet.

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  “Criminalizing biking will not make us safer. It will discourage biking, which research shows makes streets less safe for all users, and it will put New Yorkers at risk of a criminal record, the threat of deportation, or worse.

  To make New York City’s streets safe, we do not need to criminalize bicycling. We need the City of New York to accelerate plans to build dedicated, protected infrastructure for people on bikes, which has been shown to dramatically reduce biking on the sidewalk. We need to be using our legal authority to reduce the speed limit to 20mph for every vehicle on the road under Sammy’s Law. And we need the City Council to advance regulations on the delivery app companies that currently profit off requiring an unsafe pace of work for their delivery workers.

  I say no to special speed limits for cyclists and no to police crackdowns that unfairly target and punish people on bikes. Biking is not a crime!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:42pm

• Myrna

  Before magnifying on an already marginalized group, like cyclist, please turn your attention to the real issue, which is cars/drivers. The amount of data that should be followed to reduce the killing should come from regulating and criminalizing cars. It’s unbelievable what the agenda is behind the laws imposed on cyclists and it’s completely against people of color, immigrants and the agenda is so appalling. Please stop this nonsense and gaze your attention to car killers. Thanks! 😊

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:49pm

• Paul C Schickler

  To limit ebikes to a speed lower than that of autos is discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:56pm

• Matt Hoppenstedt

  Hi-
  I do not understand why we are targeting bikers especially e bikes and traditional bicylces.
  We should be targeting cars (including illegal parking by city workers that create unsafe conditions). These vehicles are much more dangerous and cause more death. I also think we should continue enforcement of motorized scooters.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 5:56pm

• Kevin Costa

  As a licensed driver, avid cyclist, and resident of New York City whose family came over from Italy to Bushwick in 1905, I urge you to oppose the proposed 15 mph speed cap on ebikes and scooters. This rule does not make New Yorkers safer. It punishes working people and creates more problems than it solves.

  First, capping ebike speeds at 15mph will make streets more dangerous, not less. Slower bikes become sitting ducks in traffic. Cars and trucks will be passing them constantly. That puts both riders and pedestrians at greater risk. This is especially true in Queens and the outer boroughs where we do not have protected bike lanes on every block (or any blocks!).

  Second, this rule hurts the delivery workers who feed our neighborhoods and power the economy. These are mostly immigrants trying to make a living. Slowing them down means fewer deliveries and smaller paychecks. It is government overreach that hits working-class New Yorkers the hardest.

  Third, this rule cannot even be enforced properly. Most ebikes and scooters do not have plates. There is no realistic way to tell if a rider is going 15 mph or 18 mph. I do not want NYPD to waste resources pulling over ebikes when there is real crime to solve and while reckless drivers speed by in 4,000-pound vehicles.

  If the city is serious about safety, it should focus on real traffic enforcement and building infrastructure that works for everyone. That means protecting intersections (DAYLIGHTING!), fixing potholes, and holding drivers accountable when they break the law.

  We need common sense… Not posturing, not a blanket rule that targets the wrong people.

  I absolutely do NOT support this proposed rule.

  Thanks, Kevin Costa

  Comment added July 14, 2025 6:01pm

• Heidi Vanderlee

  I am writing to say I oppose the limiting of e-bike speeds. The hypocrisy is on full display here. Drivers of cars and trucks speed, kill and injure others CONSTANTLY but if we brought up speed limiters in cars, everyone would freak out and call it unthinkable.

  In NYC, many use an e-bike as primary mode of transportation and should be afforded the same level of dignity as drivers of cars and trucks. I ride Citibike e-bikes and the sluggish speed of 15 mph is dangerous – not to mention there was NO warning that the speed was being cut. E-bike riders should follow traffic laws just like anyone else, but to cut the speed 25% from the initial rollout makes no sense. There have been times where I’ve needed to move more quickly to get out of a dangerous or tight situation on the road, usually due to a driver doing something illegal or risky, and being that I’m not a road cyclist, it takes all of the effort I have to get out of the way now.

  It makes no sense that the majority of injuries and deaths from crashes are caused by the drivers of CARS AND TRUCKS, not bicycles, and yet WE are the ones being punished.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 6:10pm

• Patrick Alba

  I’m a citibike rider and the reduction in speed has desolate impacted my ability to not impede with the general flow of traffic when I’m forced to share a lane. This has a noticeable impact for me and the safety of my commute.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 6:49pm

• Sarah N Phillips

  I do not support speed limits or adding speed restrictions for people operating bicycles with electric assist (“e-bikes”), electric scooters, or pedal-assist commercial bicycles on NYC streets.

  If the city sincerely wants safer streets, it would focus its attention on the cause of serious traffic crashes: cars.

  The only condition that I would support this rule, is if ALL vehicles in the city had to comply (cars, buses, motorcycles).

  Comment added July 14, 2025 6:52pm

• Nick Hawke

  I think it’s ridiculous to focus our city efforts on clamping down on ebike speeds. There are still more pedestrians killed by cars than bikes in NYC by a LARGE margin. If the city cares about pedestrian safety, and it should, it should apply a 15 MPH speed limit to cars instead. Or they could move forward with daylighting all crosswalks. etc etc etc

  Comment added July 14, 2025 7:10pm

• Bill Ballou

  The city should be encouraging use of bikes as an alternative to driving. Cars cause outstandingly more harm than any e-bike is capable of. Restricting use of e-bikes pushes people to more dangerous and obstructive means of transit.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 7:13pm

• Charles O’Neill

  The speed limit is not the problem. No one enforces current biking laws of going the wrong way / texting while biking. Just start there.

  It is illogical to have higher penalties for bikes vs cars. Hold everyone to a 20 mph speed limit with the same penalty for cars and bikes. No cars are pulled over for speeding anymore anyway since the city now relies on a low number of speed cameras.

  I oppose this 15 mph speed limit for just bikes. This makes no sense

  Comment added July 14, 2025 7:23pm

• Ross Willard

  Background – I grew up driving dirt roads in rural Pennsylvania – then lived in a small village beside a small city – I am a product of “Car Culture”. But I always road bicycles or skates outdoors for travel. Then I started a free non profit bicycle shop to help the less fortunate while I worked a full time union job on night shift to pay the bills.
  It gave me a balanced view of the many levels of transportation by mode and expense.
  Plus I go to NYC once or twice a year for the last 20 years to fix bikes for free at the 5 Boro Bike Tour or NYC Summer Streets.
  I multi-mode by driving 162 miles, then bike a few miles to PATH station, take light rail to World Trade Center, then bike to Brooklyn to stay for a few days and repeat on the way home.
  I give all the back story so that people don’t assume I am some inexperienced young radical nurtured on one way of life from the city.
  I am 74 and I multi mode. Biking is the most efficient, economical, healthy way to get around NYC.
  I just acquired my first ebike with a sidecar that carries a large dog.
  My pedal bike is capable of doing 20mph in spurts.
  I was going to bring my ebike to NYC on my next excursion while carrying my 40# tool bag and parts. But if this mandate takes place, I will revert to plain old pedaling. Because doing 16 mph and having to show up in an out of town court a later date would be dumb.
  Being limited to 15 mph with 2,000# plus cars around me at a greater speed is even dumber.

  Suggestion – and it is the same one I offer all my local Pennsylvania politicians and Department of Transportation planners – come ride these streets with me – I’ll supply the bike or ebike – I never ask people to do something I would not do – – I was same way at work whether I was the boss, electrician an or even when I was the janitor.

  Ross Willard

  Convincing all the car drivers to do 15 mph on streets (not highways) would also save more lives – but good luck on getting that to happen.

  Ebikes are a very efficient vehicle on the road – why discourage such a small space saving form of transportation?

  Comment added July 14, 2025 7:26pm

• Iris

  Statistically, people on bikes in New York City cause few crashes and almost no fatalities. People in cars and trucks cause tens of thousands of crashes, and kill more than a hundred New Yorkers every year. It is wildly illogical to require the former to travel at 15 mph, with potential criminal penalties, while, in the very same lanes, an SUV can drive 35 mph without so much as a speeding ticket.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 7:26pm

• Marjoan B

  This proposed e-bike speed limit rule is problematic for several key reasons, especially when considering the practical benefits of allowing cyclists to maintain higher speeds where appropriate, and its actual impact on pedestrian safety.
  The rule creates a dangerous double standard that disproportionately affects cyclists and doesn’t genuinely make streets safer for pedestrians. It threatens e-bike riders with criminal charges for slightly exceeding a low speed, while drivers of much heavier, more dangerous vehicles can speed excessively or run red lights and often only receive a traffic ticket. This doesn’t make streets safer; it makes cyclists more vulnerable by forcing them to move significantly slower than surrounding traffic, increasing the risk of collisions with faster-moving vehicles. For pedestrians, the perceived benefit of slower e-bikes can be misleading. A street with well-defined lanes and clear rules for all modes of transport is safer than one where different users are moving at widely disparate, unpredictable speeds.
  This rule would also be harmful to essential workers and reduce efficiency in one of the busiest cities in the world. Many delivery workers rely on e-bikes to earn a living. This rule would directly hurt their ability to do their jobs efficiently, potentially reducing their income and making deliveries take longer. Allowing cyclists, especially on e-bikes, to maintain speeds closer to the flow of traffic can significantly improve commute times and delivery efficiency, making cycling a more viable and competitive transportation option. This, in turn, reduces traffic congestion and reliance on fossil fuels, which ultimately benefits all New Yorkers, including pedestrians, by improving air quality and reducing the overall volume of cars on the road.
  I understand where this idea to limit speeds came from—a concern for pedestrian safety—but it’s a misguided safety approach that will hinder transportation benefits. Focusing solely on e-bike speed limits misses the real problems. The biggest threats to street safety for everyone, including pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, are often reckless driving by cars and trucks and the lack of protected infrastructure. While safety is paramount, arbitrary low-speed limits for cyclists can discourage the adoption of cycling as an efficient and sustainable mode of transport. The ability for cyclists to reach destinations quicker and keep pace with urban traffic flow can make cycling a more attractive alternative to driving, thereby contributing to reduced pollution, less traffic, and healthier communities. This rule won’t meaningfully improve overall safety and could even discourage sustainable transportation options, which is the opposite goal of NYC’s efforts to encourage people off cars as much as possible, not back to them.

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:08pm

• Jerrick Haddad

  This policy change, which singles out one of the least dangerous methods of transportation, is dangerous and illogical. You can be arrested for pedaling faster than 15 mph on a 30-pound bike that doesn’t have a speedometer, while someone behind the wheel of a two-ton truck speeding 35 mph without even a traffic ticket, or a souped up car,

  Criminalizing biking won’t make streets safer. It will discourage people from cycling, making streets less safe for everyone — while exposing thousands of New Yorkers to the threat of a criminal record, jail time, or even deportation just for riding a bike. Tell NYC DOT: No unfair bike laws! No special speed limit for bikes!

  Comment added July 14, 2025 8:47pm

• Lloyd Feng

  Written Testimony in Support of Proposed Rule DOT-90
  Rules Relating to Speed Limits for Electric Bicycles and Scooters
  To: New York City Department of Transportation
  Re: Support for Proposed Speed Limit Reductions for E-Bikes and Electric Scooters
  Date: July 14, 2025
  Introduction
  I am writing to express my strong support for the proposed rule changes that would reduce the speed limit for electric bicycles from 25 mph to 15 mph and establish consistent 15 mph speed limits for electric scooters and pedal-assist commercial bicycles. These changes represent a critical step toward improving safety for all road users in New York City.
  As a regular user of both Citi Bikes and Citi E-bikes, I want to be clear that I love this system and the mobility it provides to New Yorkers and visitors alike. Citi Bike has revolutionized urban transportation and made cycling accessible to millions of people who might not otherwise bike in the city. The convenience, reliability, and environmental benefits of the bike-share system are tremendous assets to our city.
  However, my support for these safety measures comes precisely because I care about the long-term success and reputation of bike-sharing in New York City. I want all users—whether on traditional bikes, e-bikes, or other mobility devices—to be safe and to coexist responsibly on our streets.
  Safety Imperative
  The proliferation of e-mobility devices has fundamentally changed our streetscape, bringing both benefits and serious safety challenges. The proposed speed limit reduction addresses a growing public safety crisis that I have witnessed firsthand on countless occasions throughout the city.
  E-bikes traveling at 25 mph pose significant dangers to pedestrians, traditional cyclists, motorists, and the riders themselves. The speed differential between human-powered bicycles and electric-assisted vehicles creates hazardous conditions, particularly in bike lanes and mixed-traffic situations. Reducing this differential through the proposed 15 mph limit will create more predictable and safer interactions among all road users.
  Specific Concerns About Citi Bike E-Bikes
  The proposed rule must explicitly include Citi Bike e-bikes and all bike-share electric bicycles in its scope. This is essential because Citi Bike e-bikes represent a significant portion of e-bike traffic in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, yet their riders often demonstrate concerning disregard for traffic safety rules.
  As someone who uses Citi Bikes and Citi E-bikes regularly, I am deeply frustrated by the significant number of users who flagrantly disregard traffic laws and endanger others. These irresponsible riders are giving all of us—including law-abiding bike-share users—a bad reputation. Their reckless behavior undermines public support for cycling infrastructure and bike-sharing programs that benefit our entire city.
  I have personally witnessed numerous instances where Citi Bike e-bike riders:
  Run red lights at dangerous intersections, including major corridors where pedestrian crossing volumes are highest
  Ignore stop signs completely, maintaining speed through intersections without yielding
  Ride against traffic in bike lanes and on streets
  Weave recklessly between pedestrians on sidewalks and in crosswalks
  Speed excessively through crowded areas with high pedestrian activity
  Fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, forcing people to jump out of the way
  Recent Incident Demonstrating the Problem
  Just today, during a community walkthrough in Williamsburg with the Chair of the Capital Budget Committee and District Manager from Brooklyn Community Board 1, along with members of the Department of City Planning, I witnessed multiple dangerous incidents involving Citi e-bike users. On several occasions, riders operated their e-bikes illegally on sidewalks and rode dangerously toward pedestrians, including our group as we were crossing crosswalks when we had the right of way with the traffic signal.
  These incidents occurred during our meeting in Williamsburg, highlighting how pervasive and problematic reckless e-bike behavior has become. The fact that multiple violations occurred in a short timeframe during a single community walk demonstrates that current speed limits and enforcement are inadequate to address the safety risks posed by high-speed e-bikes, particularly in dense urban environments.
  Benefits of the Proposed Changes
  Enhanced Pedestrian Safety: Lower speeds will provide e-bike riders more time to react to pedestrians and reduce the severity of any collisions that do occur.
  Improved Traffic Flow: Reducing speed differentials between different types of bicycles will create more predictable traffic patterns and reduce dangerous passing maneuvers.
  Consistent Standards: Aligning e-bike speeds with existing electric scooter limits creates logical, enforceable standards that users can easily understand and follow.
  Reduced Injury Severity: Physics dictates that lower speeds result in less severe injuries in the event of crashes. This protects both e-bike riders and other road users.
  Implementation Recommendations
  To maximize the effectiveness of these speed limit changes, I recommend:
  Explicit inclusion of all bike-share and rental e-bikes, including Citi Bike vehicles, in the rule language
  Enhanced enforcement particularly targeting chronic violators and high-risk areas
  Public education campaigns specifically targeting Citi Bike users and tourists who may be unfamiliar with local traffic laws
  Speed limiting technology requirements for bike-share operators to ensure compliance
  Clear signage in multiple languages in areas with high e-bike traffic
  Conclusion
  The proposed speed limit reductions represent a necessary and overdue response to legitimate public safety concerns. The current 25 mph limit for e-bikes is simply too high for safe operation in New York City’s dense, mixed-use environment.
  As a regular and enthusiastic user of Citi Bikes and Citi E-bikes, I want these systems to thrive and expand. However, their long-term success depends on all users following traffic laws and demonstrating respect for pedestrians, motorists, and other cyclists. The proposed speed limits will help create a culture of responsible riding that protects everyone and preserves public support for bike-sharing and cycling infrastructure.
  I urge the Department of Transportation to adopt these proposed rules with explicit language ensuring that Citi Bike e-bikes and all bike-share electric bicycles are clearly covered by the new speed restrictions. The safety of New Yorkers and visitors to our city depends on swift action to address the dangerous behaviors I have documented and witnessed repeatedly.
  Thank you so much for your time and consideration,
  Lloyd Feng

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  Comment added July 14, 2025 9:49pm