3rd Ave - https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/y2j38c/new_3rd_ave_proposed_design_revealed_nothing/. Could definitely be better.

Unfortunately the battery issue might be a little beyond my area of expertise. I attended an event a little while back with a Council Member that talked a bit about how the City Council was very aware of it, and also most members weren't in favor of any legislation to prohibit personal electric vehicles, or for allowing city agencies to do that. (Especially since so many industry/delivery and working class people and jobs depend on it now.) But they also didn't really have any answers.

So the government probably isn't our problem, and it's also probably not individual buildings or landlords we have to worry about but actually insurance companies that may force them to act. Frankly I have no idea how this is going to play out, but I have a feeling there will be pretty stringent certifications coming for batteries, which would be good. We just need to get a few years down the road and let the industry mature and fix the issue like they did for other Lithium ion products that used to have this problem and keep any bans to a minimum, and also remind people that fires with personal electric vehicles even now are very rare, and when they do happen its not really happening to high end ebikes or scooters, it's happening to the really cheap mopeds and ebikes whose manufacturers cut corners.

I mean yeah, there are 1.6 million people that ride micromobility here in the city, over a million that ride it regularly. Would you say something like "every time I attack pedestrians I'm downvoted, it's so unfair."

We already have to put up with enough bs and are not interested in hearing your petty little complaints about how your neighborhood lost 3 parking spots out of thousands to make a bike lane or whatever. I assume that's what your complaint is since you've actually provided no "factual statements."

Such as?

Yeah that's why we want to improve the city's walking and cycling. For that sweet reddit karma. You got us.

Hey, what does it tell you that these ideas are such a reliable "karma farm?" Why is it I never see you out there making content for reddit about how we should rip up bike lanes and sidewalks for more car lanes? I hear a lot of complaining from you and a handful of others about how we want to improve the city but we literally never hear your vision. What is it, cars from one building's wall to the other?

Building bike lanes to get all the bikes and other micromobility into the same place on the street is literally a form of controlling them and making things safer for everyone.

The point is if you replace something very dangerous and harmful with something that is only a tiny bit harmful it's a huge net win safety wise.

I can't wait until I can scrape together enough beggin' change to buy me some walking credits

I'll answer this genuinely. In the sub, we have many more posts, and great discussion, on a huge range of topics, and lots of them are little things only people genuinely interested in r/MicromobilityNYC topics would care about. Lots of things only sort of related to NYC, like design practices and news from other global cities on how they are implementing bike lanes and other bike infrastructure, and general urbanist things as well. Lots of these are of interest to the people genuinely fascinated with this stuff and never get reposted here, but then there is some stuff that is uniquely NYC related news and of general interest that an average, non bike or urbanist type person would still want to see. (Which is unarguably true, given how well these posts here in r/nyc too.)

This gives a lot of people what they want. People with a greater interest in how the city is evolving can join micromobilityNYC, people who aren't aware there are communities for this stuff and would be interested can get exposed to it occasionally, and people with only a passing interest can get the highlights of NYC centric stuff here.

You are aware us normal new yorkers use sidewalks right? Especially the one just outside penn station, the port authority, and the garden. Right?

I don't understand why anyone would think "just take Ubers everywhere if you're a woman" is a realistic suggestion at all unless you're a billionaire or something. If you're worried about crime and transportation the obvious solution, as always, is to get a bike or scooter. My gf rides 15 miles a day, counting to and from work. Often this is after dark and through tons of neighborhoods. If there is some skeevy dude on the street and you're on the scooter you know what you do? Just zoom past him. He can't run 18mph, I promise you. r/MicromobilityNYC is literally the only answer that makes any financial sense

NIMBY literally means "not in my backyard" and significantly predates the Not Just Bikes youtube channel. Good lord

NIMBYism isn't just about buildings, or about housing or whatever you think it is. It's about resistance to changing the city and our built environment at all.

It's so strange that city hall is still so nimby and lacking vision when it comes to bike projects. Deblasio was considered to be very useless but that's TONS of credit for the Brooklyn bridge bike lane. Think about how easy and small of a project that is in the great scheme of New York construction. The work to payoff ratio is enormous. You'd think city hall would realize this and lean into r/micromobilityNYC projects hard