As e-bikes kill and maim ever more innocents, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York lawmakers still refuse to crack down.
Last week’s City Council hearing was an epic fiasco, as members burned hours in mindless back-and-forth with city officials and then skipped out as the public got a chance at the mic — basically ignoring the regular New Yorkers who’d come out to testify to their serious personal harm.
Those stories are heartbreaking.
An e-bike ran down Tonette Rivera of Brooklyn when she was 20 weeks pregnant; she spent two months in the hospital, gave birth prematurely and then saw her infant son spend three months in a neonatal ICU — and, on top of the medical horror, the calamity crushed her financially…