NYers injured by reckless e-bikes blast NYC for caring more for delivery riders than victims

New Yorkers left with lifelong injuries from e-bike crashes blasted the city for having more compassion for the reckless speedsters zipping through traffic than the dozens of New Yorkers they have killed and injured.The City Council is considering a slew of bills would tighten enforcement on the high-powered scooters, but Mamdani administration officials argued at a hearing Wednesday those laws could unfairly target food delivery riders they bizarrely dubbed “deliveristas” — “many of whom are immigrants.”But pedestrians who were flattened by riders said the city was forgetting who’s responsible for turning bike lanes and city streets into a dangerous, high-speed free-for-all.“For some reason, it’s more important for someone’s chicken sandwich to be delivered than anyone’s life,” fumed Carrie Michaels, who was injured by e-bike drivers in two separate crashes.The City Council grilled the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, NYPD and Department of Transportation on shockingly lax policies for the e-bikes, and considered a package of bills that could combat the devastation sparked by devil-may-care riders.“We share the council’s goal to rid our streets of unsafe micromobility devices,” DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine said. “However, we have strong concerns of unintended consequences that would most heavily impact delivery workers, many of whom are immigrants with limited English proficiency and other vulnerabilities.” Levine passed the blame for a string of crashes off the drivers themselves and onto “unrealistic” demands delivery app employers place on them.“I cannot underscore enough that at the end of the day all the training in the world will not be sufficient if a worker goes out on the street and feels that they’re gonna lose their job if they don’t hit these unrealistic times that the delivery apps are insisting on,” Levine said.Council member Crystal Hudson, a member of the progressive caucus, shared a simi...