Bay Ridge board blasts e-bikes
CB10 calls on city to address heavy usage along Shore Road Promenade
BY JESSICA PARKS
Parks offi cials must address
the use of higher-speed vehicles
on the Shore Road Promenade,
according to members of
Bay Ridge’s community board,
who claim they pose a safety
hazard for pedestrians and cyclists
sharing the pathway.
“When I’ve been down
there recently I’ve been
shocked to see the number of
motorized vehicles that are
down there,” said Community
Board 10 member Stephen
Harrison at the panel’s May 17
general meeting, “and I think
it is only a matter of time before
somebody dies.”
The board’s district manager
said her offi ce has received
a fl urry of complaints from constituents
about the use of electric
bikes, scooters and mopeds
on the waterfront walkway, and
echoed Harrison’s call to action
after seeing it for herself.
“I was out on the promenade
this past weekend just
to check it out because we had
gotten quite a few calls,” Josephine
Beckmann told Brooklyn
Paper. “And you had cyclists
young and old, and you
had pedestrians young and
old. It seemed that it was a lot
more crowded and there were
scooters zooming by.”
New York City authorized
the use of electric bikes and
scooters within the fi ve boroughs
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in November 2020, with
the speed limit for most bikes
being 20 miles per hour and
for scooters 15 miles per hour,
and both can travel in bike
lanes and roads with speed
limits no more than 30 miles
per hour. Mopeds are mostly
restricted to traveling in the
right lane or shoulder of a
roadway with a speed limit of
up to 30 miles per hour, but
Class A mopeds can travel up
to 40 miles per hour and utilize
all three travel lanes, according
to city guidelines
The perceived intrusion of
electric bikes and scooters is
not isolated to bike lanes, community
members told the board,
citing a high number of the electric
vehicles on the promenade’s
walking path, as well as the
neighborhood’s sidewalks.
To address the more acute
issue on the Shore Road Promenade,
Beckmann penned a
letter to the borough’s Parks
Commissioner Marty Maher,
requesting his department educate
the board and the promenade’s
e-bike and e-scooter
users about where they are allowed
to use their vehicles and
how to use them safely.
The community board is
potentially interested in implementing
a ban on motorized
vehicles including e-bikes and
e-scooters on the promenade,
Beckmann said, similarly to
the Hudson River Greenway on
the distant isle of Manhattan.
But the head of Bike South
Brooklyn said he staunchly
opposes any expansion of a
ban on electric and motorized
vehicles from bike paths, arguing
the city could better accommodate
the new bike path
users by updating and constructing
bike infrastructure.
“I actually think that the
ban on e-bikes on that greenway
are wrongheaded and
should be rolled back,” Brian
Hedden said. “I would not be
in favor of expanding them
into other areas of the city.”
The club’s president recommended
widening the promenade’s
existing bike path to
allow for more passing space,
adding that the expansion is
long overdue as there is an
already-existing confl ict between
the promenade’s more
leisurely bicyclists and those
biking to get speed,
“There’s been a confl ict for
years really between the people
who go on that promenade
to bike fast,” Hedden said,
“versus the ones who are kind
of there to take in the harbor
views and the bridge views
and the sunsets.”
More protected bicycle infrastructure
would ease the
burden on the promenade
while also helping to address
the board’s concerns of bicyclists
using the neighborhood’s
sidewalks as more users would
feel comfortable utilizing
them, as opposed to bike lanes
exposed to car traffi c.
Neither city Parks Department
or Department of Transportation
offi cials returned
requests for comment.
Bicyclists on the Shore Road Promenade in 2013. File photo
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