The NYPD said it was unaware of the crash and did not answer questions about a possible investigation. When asked about enforcement of scooters on the bridges, the department emailed a link to its main Twitter feed.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.A collision of scooter and e-bike riders on the Manhattan Bridge bicycle path left four people injured and the cycling community shaken as traditional cyclists increasingly share precious riding real estate with motorized bikes and scooters.
“Inevitable carnage,” Lucas Freshman, an emergency room nurse, described it. “As shaken up by it as I still am, twelve or sixteen hours later, the sad feeling I have is that I'm not surprised by this happening.”and New York’s biking community responded with fear and concern about what they see as the unregulated threat of scooters.Derrick Chan, also a nurse who arrived on the scene while commuting to work, said the crash involved both electric mopeds and e-bikes.
Freshman, Chan, and many Reddit users said they were frustrated at the number of unsafe e-scooter riders on bicycle paths and sidewalks. Electric scooters are not permitted on the city’s bridges.
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