For anyone wondering these are, legally speaking, ebikes. As in they squeezed a delivery truck into the legal definition for a bike to be able to use bike lanes.
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Oh no. Now we have justification for expanding bike lane infrastructure.
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Yeah idk why they painted a bicycle on the Amazon Parking Lane
If they’re moving along the bike lanes the way cyclists use them I don’t have big beef here.
If they’re then PARKING in the bike lanes to go make their deliveries, we have a problem. One that can be solved pretty easily considering these aren’t cars and are very light. Very easy to tip. Especially when they’re just sitting there abandoned in a flat bike lane.
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Did they buy a bunch of Model T's for deliveries?
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"New Yorkers"
Looks inside
One of the biggest corporations in the world
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how is that an ebike it has 4 wheels
It looks like the bike lane ended right before the truck.
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Yeah, I just hope NYC is taxing the fuck out of those quadra-cycle-boxes. I know we aren't, but come on- Amazon trucks routinely park all day near my apt, blocking the bike lane and half of the road. Tax them, tax them, tax them.
ebikes are vehicles in the same way that motorcycles are as in they are not exclusively human powered. They belong in the normal lanes with the other non human powered vehicles. It's dangerous to riders in the bike lane legally when ebikes and other vehicles are whipping around because they want to skip the line. According to NYC law you are only allowed 750 watts max and 15mph limit to use the bike lane. They really need to revisit that because these are not safe to others in the lane.
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