NYC Council Introduction 823

intro.nyc/0823-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
DOT study on speed reducing measures for bicycles with electric assist operating in bicycle lanes.
Status: Committee Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Sponsored by Robert F. Holden
Introduced: April 18, 2024

This bill would require the Department of Transportation to conduct a one-time study to evaluate the feasibility of speed bumps as a means of preventing electric bicycles from speeding in bicycle lanes, to recommend alternative speed reducing measures if speed bumps are impracticable, and to identify locations where collisions involving electric bicycles occur at a higher frequency.