Current Events > NYPD now writing criminal summonses, not tickets, to bikes running red

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Eh, fuck them cyclists. They're always jerk offs around my area lol

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Want to share the road with motor vehicles, share the same laws. The entitlement never ends with cyclists.

Want to share the road with motor vehicles, share the same laws. The entitlement never ends with cyclists.

rules should be enforced with equity

car drivers have a higher responsibility to adhere to the rules of the road due to the size, licensure, and potentially lethality

no one should be running reds, period. the people going "good" are doing so out of shortsighted spite

Want to share the road with motor vehicles, share the same laws. The entitlement never ends with cyclists.

This.

Why are some of you suddenly acting like ACAB isn't a thing and there is a double standard despite how cars cause infinitely more fatalities and serious injuries. Why do we treat cars like they run everything?

Addiction to cars is honestly one of the worst cultural elements of the US. Failure to build real public transportation infrastructure is criminal.

Have you been to the US?

I live here. There is no excuse for the abysmal state of our public transit.

Within some cities it can be good, but overall it's awful. There is absolutely no reason for our passenger rail service to be as dreadful as it is.

"It's too big" is the worst excuse thrown out to justify the over reliance on personal vehicles

I live here. There is no excuse for the abysmal state of our public transit.

Within some cities it can be good, but overall it's awful. There is absolutely no reason for our passenger rail service to be as dreadful as it is.

"It's too big" is the worst excuse thrown out to justify the over reliance on personal vehicles

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I live here. There is no excuse for the abysmal state of our public transit.

Within some cities it can be good, but overall it's awful. There is absolutely no reason for our passenger rail service to be as dreadful as it is.

"It's too big" is the worst excuse thrown out to justify the over reliance on personal vehicles

That excuse becomes even more ridiculous when you see just how much high speed rail China has built over the last 10-15 years, and China is about the same size as the continental US with just as much if not more difficult terrain to build on.

All I know is that cyclists need to be reigned in a bit. I've almost been hit because cyclists don't respect red lights. It's not just bikes either; scooters and mopeds also run red lights, and it's dangerous for pedestrians who have the right of way.

NYPD Traffic Division Commanding Officer Inspector Brian O'Sullivan said the cops would target six violations, including reckless driving, operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving the wrong way, disobeying a red light, and failure to stop at a stop sign.
"With these six violations we've identified, we're gonna utilize the criminal court summons instead of the B summons," said O'Sullivan.

Cars kill people

There can definitely be local improvement in densely populated areas, but much of the country is way too sparse for it to be particularly helpful.

The difference is cars are already held accountable for violations but no one is enforcing rules for bikes.

Yarimi's blue Audi A3 sedan had 99 parking and camera violations between August 2023 and March 2025, including 21 speed camera tickets and five red light tickets, with nearly $10,500 in fines, according to howsmydrivingnyc, a website that tracks violations using city data.

A vehicle with the same license plate still has $1,345 in unpaid fines, according to NYCServ.

A video of the incident posted on Citizen revealed that the truck driver, who worked for the private sanitation company D&A, stopped to allow Cox to pass in front of his cab. But before she could make it to the other sidewalk, the driver, whose name was not released by police, started moving forward, crushing her between his truck and a row of parked cars.

Cops say the driver kept going, but eventually stopped his vehicle at Third Avenue and Bergen Street, a few blocks away. It is unclear why. The driver was not charged, but a police spokesperson said the investigation is ongoing.

A distracted driver slammed into the back of a Department of Sanitation waste truck, severely injuring one of the agency's workers yet was not even charged with failure to exercise due care, police said.

You realise that theses two statements contract each other, right? The vast majority of people live in densely populated areas, that's a big part of why they are so densely populated. Furthermore the vast majority of miles traveled, in the US are locally, followed by regionally. If the US had good quality local public transport and shit national public transport, it would still be a giant improvement over what they actually had.

Most of that is going to be local to the major cities, which I'd agree certainly can be improved. In places where it can take you 15 minutes just to get from your house to the main road, there's not a ton of incentive to have a particularly robust bus system. In places where towns are 30 minutes apart, there's not going to be much incentive to have robust transportation systems between towns. There's obviously big money interests blocking the development of public transit, but it's also simply not something that's going to be innately desired in large swathes of the country.

The problem is you think public transit needs to exist for the purposes of profit and not for the betterment of the lives of citizenry.

If you're putting expensive systems in place that don't get enough usage to justify their cost, then said systems will quickly go away. I'm all for improvement in places where it's needed, but I disagree that there's utility for it everywhere country-wide.

Most of that is going to be local to the major cities, which I'd agree certainly can be improved. In places where it can take you 15 minutes just to get from your house to the main road, there's not a ton of incentive to have a particularly robust bus system. In places where towns are 30 minutes apart, there's not going to be much incentive to have robust transportation systems between towns. There's obviously big money interests blocking the development of public transit, but it's also simply not something that's going to be innately desired in large swathes of the country.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said new citywide strategy is meant to target "out of control" e-bikes and mopeds only, but it's already ensnaring legal riders who aren't even on electric mobility.

CE! Read the article!

I do not live in NYC. There are not that many e-wheels on the sidewalk but the times I had to jump out of the way were memorable.

Isn't meant to but still is affecting is a meaningless distinction

The problem is you think public transit needs to exist for the purposes of profit and not for the betterment of the lives of citizenry.

Post claims the distinction is meaningless.
Read the article! (duh) The number of criminal cases will overwhelm the city.

I'm actually of the opinion that bikes shouldn't have to obey the rules of the road in this sense. I know it's not a popular opinion, but the benefits to riding a bike are worth it.

Like, I'm sorry. Practically, when you ride a bike you need to go in the road, sidewalk, cut through parking lots, etc. I think all of that should be legal. Essentially I think being on a bike should be treated more like walking.

Or theyre being realistic about how things are in America. You seem to really struggle sometimes with the difference between someone saying this is how things should be vs this is how things likely will be.