This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/policy-change-nypd-will-write-criminal-summonses-not-traffic-tickets-for-cyclists
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/policy-change-nypd-will-write-criminal-summonses-not-traffic-tickets-for-cyclists
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Adams is happy to do it because he's corrupt and owned like Mango Messiah bought him off the boat and renamed him right there on the dock.
Been hit by cyclist and injured cos he failed to stop at crosswalk, had head injury. No driver insurance on him to pay for the injuries.
Car insurance rates sky high in NYC too.
Going 26 in a 25
Blocking the box (giggity)
Parking in the bike lanes (a job reserved for cops)
We're at risk. If I hit anyone on my ebike, 50-50 I go to the hospital. Your indifference to our lives is what paves the way to our persecution. Thank you for wishing harm to an already vulnerable population. https://www.amny.com/new-york/bicyclist-soho-struck-truck-driver-05012025/
the NYPD doesn’t actually enforce the law. They ticket whomever they like for whatever bogus charge they want.
https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-unlawful-custodial-arrests/
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/30/breaking-recidivist-driver-who-killed-three-on-ocean-parkway-has-been-charged
(Taking bets that your next response will be: "That's so cringe!" in 5...4...3...2...1.) LOL!
This is fascism—
disguised as patriotism,
sold as “freedom,” enforced through fear.
No one is coming to save us.
We are the adults in the room.
Organize. Speak. Refuse.
(I know you weren't supporting the policy, but just to bring the topic back around..)
Mayor Adams and his NYPD know this.
The speeds can approach motor vehicle speeds, and the operators are ok with going on sidewalks.
I almost got taken out in Metrotech Commons: didn’t hear it coming.
That said, criminal enforcement is over the top and stupid
Change the law to the Idaho Law. Red light = Yield Right of Way for people cycling, with pedestrian priority.
@StopKillingCyclists.bsky.social
As an adult I drive in nyc occasionally and overall the quality of drivers and bicyclists have been on the decline. Be kind on the road everyone.
It's astounding to me how much alleged adults in this entire country have such an asinine hatred for people who ride bikes. I'm in SF - opposite side of the country - and this thread reads like the same anti-bike BS I see over here.
No bike has ever driven through a crowd of people, killing 11, for instance.
Cyclists have it easy compared to cars based on weight & average speed. Cars still should be taking MORE time for safety but this is fine for bikes
I am just saying cyclists aren’t special, if you’re sharing the road with a car you get car rules too
None of that applies to cyclists.
law shouldn't give them discretion to pick whether a traffic violation is civil vs. criminal in the 1st place
Cop and ICE see brown people in a car. Tail it and then pull it over for a minor infraction - who knows if there was even an infraction?
Occupants without documents arrested on site by ICE. Kidnapping happening daily.
Isnt that the narrative of the people who want us to look the other way with illegal immigration?
I would have been deported from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia at least 3 times under this!!
Is this fascistic regime going to install a point system as well?
The "shirts" will be blue this time. It's coming.
Chump plans MANY more marches on U.S. soil!
MAGA CIVIL WAR….
https://linktr.ee/revolution2025
NOW WE ORGANIZE STRATEGIZE FIGHT!
NOW WE ORGANIZE STRATEGIZE FIGHT!
NOW WE ORGANIZE STRATEGIZE FIGHT!
All else is simply their distraction
This isn't about ordinary citizens as much as it is about
Cars last I looked aren't doing anything remotely similar.
So, please, stifle the what-about-ism. The public outrage about cyclists flouting traffic laws is universal. There is no
NYC is now complicit.
kind of “privilege” or “accommodation?” Do you refer to driving driving infrastructure as privileges and accommodations?
All you needed to say was "hey, put the ebike riders and vespas back into the TVB and keep the rest in criminal court."
This rule applies to 6 acts. DUI and reckless driving included in that.
Did you just the headline and think it applies
This applies to anything with a motor.
So cars are included.
Great article too. Totally full of journalism and not biased propaganda.
Cars are included too, genius.
Yes I did in fact read the article. And yes, in fact, I misread it.
I could point out that I’ve been up 24 hours with medical issues.
But, you’re right. It was very stupid of me to even venture an opinion.
Have a great day.
They can say otherwise, but this has been coming for a while cuz NYPD can't keep up with a 16 year old kid that does wheelies through traffic for fun.
Same shit they did for motorcyclists smh
Btw I’m white
Be one of NY’s MOST corrupt mayors, take bribes from Turkey, have half of your administration under investigation - Nah…no problem DISMISSED.
It’s a shame we are in this stranglehold by the car industry.
Should be interesting to see how this goes.
#NoPolluteCommute
#ZeroEmissions
#ProtectYourMother
https://www.bicyclecolorado.org/colorado-safety-stop-becomes-law/
(An actual campaign road sign of the extremist right party AfD here in Hamburg)
As a cyclists to work everyday, obey the local laws. Fortunately for our city, they label cyclists as pedestrians.
Use your platform for the bigger things
There are private prisons to fill...criminalized "poverty" as the new normal: predictable
Nobody, nobody is going to help us.
Fine for a motor-vehicle operator who runs red light in NYC: $50.
But you're right, it's a double standard tactic meant to scare folk, nothing more.
Cyclists aren't insured, that should scare them enough to ride safe.
I've done my part by holding cycle safety workshops that taught cycling rules of the road.
Once I saw two teens run a stop sign and almost get hit. I should've called them out and wish I had because they rode through the 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 stop sign and one of them was killed.
Keep calling authorities out when they cross the line of civility.
BTW: I'm Canadian, we treat our immigrants 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 better here.
"Then they came for the cyclists... but I wasn't a cyclist"
There had better be stronger laws against vehicular manslaughter for cars killing cyclist….. because cyclists can be run down by any car in sunny Florida and no tickets ever get issued!
That’s the real problem!
FTP!
ACAB!
If you're not breaking a law, what criminal charge are they using?
And I’d only enforce two things. Red lights/stop signs and wrong way into pedestrians or traffic.
I’d sleep like a baby every night.
There's no other way for them to combat this problem.
But it was on my friend's. Guy losing his mind
Land of the crazy.
BTW, speeding in a school zone is quite different than riding a bike on a crowded sidewalk or riding through pedestrians in crosswalk who have right of way
Makes it safer for everyone. The Dutch and the Danish have some great concepts for this.
That said, many of my near death bicycle encounters have been on sidewalks and intersections where they’ve been against both the light and direction.
My grandparents were killed by a truck driver but I'm not a reactionary conservative so I'm not cheering on laws that criminalize all traffic infractions committed by truck drivers.
So you support giving criminal summonses to every car driver that runs a red light?
We're not the wolves. We're the prey. We get killed the most by car drivers as a % basis. And you just lean in on our persecution. Because we're the Other
The possibility of getting a criminal charge for accidentally breaking a minor traffic code keeps this tourist (me) away from NY.
MA, RI, NH, and VT will get my $, not NY
And yes, I do love my mostly sane blue state.
I got hit by one of those bikes a while ago. Wasn't pretty.
And the SOB didn't even stop. He just picked up his bike and flew away.
As always, remember: you aren't obligated to talk to the cops.
Cars rule and *how dare we* act outside that stricture
ps Outside of downtown I *never* cross big roads on foot at intersections - I'm ten times more likely to get crushed there than if I'm "jaywalking" where no cars are close enough to endanger me
Talk about low-risk, high reward for the cops. If I was NYPD I'd do nothing but hand these out, easiest money I'd ever make.
But I'd be an asshole if I ever signed up with them in the first place so that kind of goes without saying, does it not?
Any place that is, doesn't have a bike path lmfao
Everything on the asphalt should be subject to the same rules.
Same for cyclists, who should decide if they want to drive vehicles or be pedestrians.
Everyone gets a registration plate of some kind.
Everyone gets insurance.
Everyone follows the same road rules.
But the same laws should still apply.
Stop signs and red lights for instance. If I had a dollar for every cyclist I've seen riding right through one of those...
Also hold cyclists - WHO ALSO CAUSE INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE - accountable in the very same way.
I thought they wanted fewer cars in the city!
Throw them all in jail!
How dare they get around on a cheap bike instead of buying a Big American Truck?
They won't arrest the white cyclists, just the immigrants who literally bring everyone their food every day and keep small businesses (restaurants) from going out of business.