"Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani wants to keep Eric Adams's 15 mph speed limit for Citi Bike e-bikes, he revealed during a live podcast event with the staff of Hell Gate on Friday. Mamdani's answer - a jokingly whispered "I'm gonna keep it at 15" - came in response to a "yes or no" question exclusively about Citi Bike, not the broader 15 mph e-bike speed limit that the Adams administration put into effect on Friday."
"The moderators at last Wednesday's mayoral debate asked about the citywide e-bike speed limit and whether the candidates would "ramp up speeding tickets and other moving violations on motorized two-wheels," to which Mamdani was more equivocal: "I would actually build on the City Council's progress in holding the apps accountable, like DoorDash and GrubHub, to ensure that there weren't incentives for breaking those street traffic laws," he said. "I do not think police should be the ones dealing with the failures of these app companies.""
"It's a tough needle to thread, partly because no one really knows how NYPD will be able to enforce the new speed limit. Worse, the app companies aren't talking about taking the time pressure off delivery workers so they can travel at the new slower speed. The doyenne of delivery, Sophia Lebowitz, had yet another insightful story about app companies' speed-limit hypocrisy that's a must-read."
Zohran Mamdani committed to maintaining a 15 mph speed limit specifically for Citi Bike e-bikes while expressing more measured views about a citywide private e-bike cap. The citywide limit presents enforcement challenges because privately owned e-bikes cannot be centrally programmed like Citi Bike. Mamdani said he would build on City Council efforts to hold delivery apps accountable and argued that police should not be the primary enforcers of app-company failures. App companies have not signaled plans to reduce delivery time pressure that incentivizes speeding. Mamdani also expressed interest in residential parking permits and defended keeping the NYPD commissioner in place.
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