The article discusses Mayor Adams' inadequate response to the problems created by app-based delivery services, specifically aimed at e-bike regulation. Instead of implementing meaningful changes, he proposed a mere speed limit, placing blame on the City Council for his own failings. Critics, including City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Comptroller Brad Lander, argue that this approach punishes delivery workers instead of targeting the root causes of the problem, emphasizing the need for collaborative solutions and regulation of demand from the delivery companies.
E-bike riders, are people that deliver food to our homes, and they have families as well. ... Had we done that collaboration together, we might have come up with a different solution other than 15 miles [per hour], which I believe is a penalty.
We've got to go upstream here to the folks that are causing the problem, rather than punishing the workers trying to make a livable wage.
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