Stop — in the name of … wha?
Riders of bicycles and e-bikes take fewer than 2 percent of the trips on city streets, and cause a similarly tiny share of injuries to pedestrians, yet they receive 15 percent of the tickets handed out by NYPD officers for running red lights — a shocking disproportion that raises questions about police priorities as car drivers kill and maim tens of thousands of people per year.
Over the first three-quarters of 2024, car drivers received the fewest red-light tickets, as a percentage of all cop-issued red-light tickets, than they have in at least five years, according to data finally delivered to Streetsblog by the NYPD under a five-month-old Freedom of Information Law request…